Blog Post #10

From what I have gathered from working in an office job, data collection is absolutely vital for organizations and staying organized. Data is valuable, it tells us about people, trends, habits, the weather, etc. Organizations use that data to promote growth within the company. I know if I was a teacher I would be collecting data about students, so I can know them better and craft the lesson plan based off the information. Completing surveys is also a good way to get information about some opinions your peers or students may hold. After learning how to may them with Qualtics, I really am looking forward to taking more of them for the research pool. (which I have to complete for two classes). Excel is a tool I am familiar with, and it was fun seeing it again in my life, as she is a cruel mistress, coming and going, never on my watch but on chance. At any rate, excel is awesome for creating a schedule, or organizing a seating chart. It is a tool that helps support teaching, but would not directly be taught to my students. I would use it as a teachers aid, and I would use it a lot due to its versatile nature.

I enjoyed reading my classmates blogs this semester. My favorite part about it is that each blog posts gives us a little insight to who that person is and what they like and do not like. Some students enjoyed parts of the class I personally did not like, and they provided an explanation as to why, which helped open up my eyes from time to time. I like when students had to post screenshots of their own work, it was really fun to compare works, and you could see what each student was interested in based off the creative route they chose to take.

If i had to pick a technology I would like to work more with... I would have to say VR. It is extremely cool and its applications are boundless. I would like to look more into what it has to offer and see where my professional career would be using such technology. We only got to have a taste of VR, but after visiting the sandbox several times I really want to go back and learn more about it. As far as skills goes when using it I am not sure. I would want to work with the computer program itself to gain an understanding of the ins and outs on VR.

wow, is this really the last blog post? What a semester you guys. almost done with it, keep up the good work