EME 2040 Blog

For my second Independent Learning Project, I did an iMovie of a quiz about the hit television show, Friends. I utilized the sound and music settings to put the theme song in the background; I used the photo features of iMovie to put in photos from the show Friends; and I used the title features to put in the questions and the answers for the quiz. I chose to use iMovie because I took TV production in high school and learned how to use iMovie and the many different features and ever since, I have been very interested and passionate about it. By clicking the words ILP #2 below, you can view the iMovie presentation I made. ILP #2 The sources I used for the photos and the music for my project are as follows: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-friends-cast-got-1-million-per-episode-salary-2016-10 https://buzzfrag.com/a-thank-you-letter-from-a-monica-geller-fan/3428/ http://metro.co.uk/2016/06/23/friends-made-a-huge-mistake-in-ross-and-emilys-wedding-episode-and-we-bet-you-di...

I think I will utilize Excel in the classroom to do attendance, to keep track of behavior of the students in the class, and to show the class the statistics on each test so that they can be aware of where they stand in the classroom grade-wise. I plan to teach math when I am a teacher and i think using graphs to determine which types of problems are most commonly missed and which are most commonly correct will benefit my teaching strategies and which subjects to focus more on. In this class, I have learned a lot about some social media sites and other helpful websites that can be used for teaching. For example, I would have never thought to use Pinterest as a resource for teaching but from my classmates' blogs, I learned different ways to use these sites for educational purposes. I also learned a lot about my classmates personalities from their blogs. Even seeing what they like to do each project about and their ILPs about, it taught me about what they are passionate about indivi...