Independent Learning Project

I decided to do a Podcast on affordable education. I think this is a very important issue to the future of college students, because a lot of people myself included acquire a lot of debt in college and it's not fair when a lot of other developed nations have free or affordable education. I hope you enjoy.

I took a 3 hour course tutorial on Lynda.com about iPad Music Production. I found it to be really interesting and informative. My roommate is a rapper and he told me to check out this course because it shows you how you can plug in almost any instrument into an iPad. That is not as easy as it sounds apparently. You cant just plug an instrument into a tablet. It turns out its a very costly process but it is feasible. They make several adaptor accessories for almost every instrument so that you can play and record that instrument on iPad programs like garageband. They went through at least 13 different adaptors and showed you how to use them from the guitar to the microphone. They also went into detail explaining more about how to use Garageband with the instruments plugged in with the help of the adaptors. Here are some photos from the course.

Blog Post 10

I think teachers could make great use of data collection tools. They include all types of graphs that measure different types of Data. Graphs are a very important part of showing data and can make the data easier to understand or read. Teachers will definitely have to use these data collection schools for pretty much every subject, especially when comes to calculating grades and measuring them. When I’m a teacher I could see these tools being very important in teaching math and science which are two fields I’m interested in teaching.

Looking at my classmates’ blogs was a lot of fun, I enjoyed reading their posts and seeing how much they had in common with the posts I made. My favorites were always reading the blogs that were posted about projects we had done because I could see the screenshot of their project too. It was really cool seeing everyone’s project was really unique to them

I really want to learn how to use Photoshop. It is definitely a technology related skill that I have very minimal knowledge of. I think learning Photoshop would be great for me personally but as a teacher I could use it to make appealing posters and a different way to decorate the interior of my classroom

I can use the resources I have at FSU to help me broaden my horizons on classroom technology. FSU still has so many resources I did not even know existed before I took this class. The tech sandbox could definitely be a great place to continue to learn about tools like the Smartboard. Though one of the best things I’ll always have at my disposal is the internet to learn about and watch tutorials on new technology and stay informed on topics.