Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
Documents
This assignment helped me learn how to utilize a variety of different Google tools and programs. I learned about the importance of digital literacy and digital citizenship. Additionally, I learned how to create and share a Google Survey, how to analyze the data using Google Sheets, and used Google Slides to create a presentation of the results.
I have used Microsoft Word thousands of times over the years, as both a student and an educator. This assignment was still beneficial and taught me how to use tools within Word that I had never used before. I especially found useful the Heading and formatting tools that help provide shortcuts to functions that I had traditionally been doing manually.
Even though this document is from another course, I still included it in my portfolio. I consider myself an effective writer and communicator. This course, and this paper in particular, challenged me to further develop my skills, and to gain more experience as a researcher.
Presentations
Prezi is an engaging and dynamic presentation tool. In the process of preparing this assignment, I learned more about best practices for creating presentations. Especially useful was the information regarding the importance of keeping presentation slides concise, and not including excessive amounts of information.
Study Tools
Chegg is a website with many different resources and study tools for students. For this assignment I used the Flashcard tool to create flashcards containing pharmacy calculations information. The Flashcards are an effective way for a student to create a resource to enhance their own study, or to collaborate and share Flashcards with other students.