Blog Journal #9

During Covid-19, much of my junior and senior year of high school was online. I liked spending less time on transportation and having easier access to classes. However, I felt easier to disconnect and be less engaged during zooms. Something I would hope to improve as a teacher during distance learning would be to make class time more engaging like with student participation or more engaging material rather than just lecturing. Open educational resources (OER) are simply educational resources that are open to anyone to reach or use in different ways. For instance, certain textbooks can be open such Open Textbook Library. This link contains 1449 open textbooks that are open to distribute and use as an education resource. The link is at https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks . I have not worked on the second PowerPoint yet. However, the first assignment was helpful because I worked on creating material that is educationally helpf...