Ahhh it's the last blog post!!! The semester is almost over, everyone!!

Learning the data collection and excel tools last week was really helpful. I've been asked to use Excel functions before and I had no idea what I was doing. Now I can fully say that I know how to use Excel without semi-lying. What a great feeling! It's really great to not have to do all of the math out by hand. Additionally, the surveys are helpful because you can really gauge how students feel about a subject or learning method, if you ask. The statistical data you receive is really helpful for building up the classroom and incorporates students into the learning experience. I think one way I could use the survey tool personally is if I were to ever teach history to younger students. You could administer practice tests through the surveys and see in which areas students need to improve so I could address it in class. I want to teach higher grades as much as possible, preferably the college level, but high school would do for the purposes of this post.

What I liked most about reviewing other student's blogs is their own personal learning experiences. We all had that one teacher or that one thing we did in class that we have not forgotten because it was so critical to our learning experience. Using these personal experiences to relate to the blog journal really makes the experience relatable and enjoyable for everyone else.

As far as what technology-related skill I would like to learn next, I really have no idea. All of the skills that I wanted to learn were in this class. But maybe someday I really want to learn the basics of coding because it's just a really useful skill to have. Back in the old days when I used to use Tumblr, I got really frustrated when I wanted to edit my blog template and had no idea how it worked. I really messed a few things up doing that. Of course this is a really silly reason to want to learn coding, but it's really helpful for whenever you get a job or something and can offer to fix and edit little coding things. Or if you just want to edit your tumblr code again, haha. Either works.

Congrats on the last post, everyone!