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EME2040 Blog Journal #9

I first experienced distance learning at the beginning of the COVID pandemic which also happened to be my senior year of high school. There was a transition period that I had to adapt to and my teachers themselves were going through. Distance learning and in-person learning require different tools and strategies, so teachers had to adapt their courses to fit virtually. So much of the work was individual that the class periods became shorter too. I liked the power I had over my time and the flexibility I had in building online learning into my schedule. However, there was some sort of disconnect between me and the subject matter especially when I started my university classes. I was in a completely new environment where I did not know my professors or classmates whom I would interact with at a distance and virtually. As a teacher, I would take my experiences into consideration. I would need live sessions to be brief because the attention span on a computer is not very long and promotes multi-tasking and a lack of attention. I would also encourage my students to assign times to work on the coursework that fit into their schedules.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible educational materials like textbooks and lectures, distributed with open licenses for users to access and share free of cost. OER can reduce costs for students and enhance the quality of learning materials due to its vast accessibility to all. OER Commons is a database that provides access to an array of resources. Here, the materials vary from lesson plans to activities, and they are also categorized by subjects and topics for educators and students to sort through. 

OER Commons

While working on the PowerPoint project, I learned some new features within the platform. I have used PowerPoint for a very long time, and I am very familiar with slide format for presentations and the different templates and transitions. While completing this assignment, I experienced the Slide Master and the control and customization that comes from this feature. Creating my own SmartArt also added uniqueness to the completion of the project due to the flexibility of this feature too. 




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