Emily Oakes

  Personally, this semester has been a lot better than other past semesters of distant learning. Due to covid I got used to being online and got a lot more comfortable with distant learning. One big thing that I like about distant learning is that I can work on my own pace at my own time. With work and other things in life this is a huge help. One thing I do not like about distant learning is that you don’t get to interact with your classmates and professors the same way you do in class. When I am a teaching the one thing I plan to do to help improve my students distant learning experience is communication. I think communication is the biggest way to fill the gap lost between in person class and distant learning. Letting your students know that even if you are not there in person with them that you are still there for them. Open educational resources are educational materials that are open to anyone. The website I linked is a list of open educational resources. The list is organized

  I really enjoyed the web design assignment. I learned that I am a little more creative than I thought I was. One thing I liked was that it gave you a really good base set up but you could make it your own. One thing I didn’t like was that I couldn’t put my own header picture because I was using the free version. I think everything I learned from this assignment will be very useful for my future career. Teacher or not a lot of occupations require you to have a website. However, as a teacher I know a great program and skills to use for my teacher website. I learned that Diigo is a great resource to use when annotating articles. I also learned that this a great resource to use to keep all your materials organized and saved in one place. Before I took this class I had no idea what Diigo was. I like that you can share your articles and annotations with those in your class. This application can allow for collaboration between my students in my future classroom. Students can learn from ea