Selina's EME Blog

    I have really enjoyed my classroom experience in EME2040. I feel like I have learned a lot, although the little assignments do get a tedious. The material has been pretty straightforward and the instruction has been easy to follow. The only thing I would change is the amount of little participation assignments. I feel like we kind of touch on a tool just to do a participation assignment. Other than that I am really enjoying it.     OER resources are very easy to use. I very quickly found a Google Slides presentation with everything you would need to teach fables to first grade. I have used several cites to try and find teacher resources and this is by far the easiest one to navigate. The resource I found has everything from the slide presentation to links to the stories. Everything is super cute and all ready to use.  here is the link!       In doing the PowerPoint assignment I had a lot of fun. I had never done a voiceover on a PowerPoint before so that was a cool new tool that I

 

      The website design assignment was fun for me to do! I liked being able to theme the site however I wanted. I wanted the design to be easy to follow but fun to look at. My website was for a kindergarten class and I used images and colors that gave garden type of feel. The only thing that I did not really like about the assignment was the application we used to make the website. It was a little hard to navigate and it did not let me move text around the way I wanted. But other than that I really enjoyed it.  https://msdrawdysfirstgrade.weebly.com/     I don't typically use AI in my daily life. I do see how it can be useful. Most of the time I forget that I could be using AI to help me with a task, it is not what I reach for first. I'm used to using search engines like Google when I don't know something. Occasionally when I think about it, I will use Chat GPT to find a recipe or make a list of popular books or movies.      In class, ChatGPT surprised me. I'm not sure