Blog 9

 Distanced learning was pretty much a free A. Covid started my Senior year of highschool. We didn't really think Covid would last long so we just got easy assignments and were given our diplomas as to not back up the system. When I transferred to college, our college really didn't care and I took all my classes in person. I did take one online class and I didn't pay attention at all and need up just doing other stuff while I had the lecture pulled up. 


OER is open educational resources available for teachers. I think its pretty cool that these resources are open for teachers to access. The more information that is accessible, the more things can be taught. I also like how there are different degrees of OER like retain, revise, and remix. Overall I think it's an amazing tool that all teachers and students should utilize.  https://www.oercommons.org/ 

A newly acquired skill is the ability to use master slides to make work easier. Instead of putting an action button on every slide I am able to build a master slide which greatly cuts down the workload. I liked the most recent project more as to me it was much more fun and easier. The first project taught me how to record my voice-over powerpoints which could be very useful for distance learners. 





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