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This is a Time Lapse video of people working out at an FSU gym class. Working out and fitness can be related to a middle and high school P.E. class. In P.E. you are exercising and using your muscles to do a desired task. By moving around, you are working your muscles and building strength in the particular area you are working.

Time Lapse videos are beneficial to education because it shows a general action speeded up to quickly get a point or message across. They are fun and easy to create and they can capture almost anything. Technology is improving and I feel like Time Lapse videos are something that a lot of people don't know about or don't use. I believe Time Lapse videos are great ways to capture something and to quickly show someone the "summed up" version of what you were able to experience.

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Excel is a very useful tool for teachers of all ages to use. It allows for teachers to keep organized documents of specific information. Excel is very useful for teachers when they're keeping track of attendance, grades, and even lesson plans. Excel makes it easy for teachers to make charts or graphs of the information they enter and to clearly see where their students are academically. Personally, I believe Excel will be most beneficial for middle and high school teachers because regarding attendance, they have to keep track of multiple classes and hundreds of students. Discussing subject matter, teachers in math or science will most likely use the information to make charts and graphs.

Throughout the semester, I was required to comment on a few other students blogs. I really liked reading my peer's blogs and seeing how they interpreted the same questions I was required to answer and compare our similarities and differences. My favorite thing to look at was when we were required to post a picture or screenshot of an assignment we turned in for class. Examples of this are the newsletter and our website. I really liked seeing how every interpreted the assignment and how everyone used different pictures and formats different from what I used for these assignments. I like being able to see the creativity of others in my class.

Hopefully in the future I will learn videoconferencing skills. I feel like it is important for people to learn and understand this skill because it has become very common for people to communicate through videoconferencing. Videoconferencing can be used to communicate with friends as well as for business or even interviews. As technology improves, people like to use it more often and I would really like to learn more about it and how it can further benefit our community.

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A flipped classroom is when students teach themselves lessons at home by themselves and in the classroom they do activities. This is the reverse of a normal classroom where in the classroom the students learn the lecture with each other and at home by themselves they do their homework activities. Many students have differing opinions about having a flipped classroom. Some students argue that flipped classrooms are helpful and others argue that they hate these types of classes. This link is a Youtube video that explains what a flipped classroom is in depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIxikOq73Q

The podcast talks about three main "open" terms. These terms are: open education, open content, and open source. Open education can be defined as the way all people can view or share experiences and knowledge. Open content can be defined as software that people can use freely. Open source can be defined as software that can be modified and then redistributed. Open learning experiences allow for students to learn specific content without physically being enrolled in that school and interacting with the staff. The website provided below gives more information about open source. https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

PowerPoint is a very useful tool that has many functions to it. Many people are unaware of the abilities PowerPoint is capable of doing. By working on these assignments in PowerPoint, I have gained a lot of new and useful knowledge. I really like using Powerpoint and learning about the different things located inside PowerPoint. My new favorite action is a non-linear PowerPoint. I think it's really cool that PowerPoints are capable of jumping around from slide to slide by clicking on certain things. I made a Jeopardy game for one of my assignments and I'm really excited to show it to people!