Open Education Resources are free resources open to educators to help them with learning. I think they are important for educators because their jobs are hard and tend to pay little so having readily available information with supplemental information in lesson plans. I found this website called OER Commons which has resources for educators to learn more information. You can also build lesson plans and modules on the site. Along with that, you can find material that matches your specific needs and look through the criteria for your specific lesson plans that you may need.
Most of the new skills I learned from Powerpoint where related to the second powerpoint assignment. I always knew you could do more with powerpoint but I never knew it could be so easy. It was cool to learn about the fun applications that non-linear powerpoints can create. Powerpoint is usually used for simple information dissemination and the second project showed us what it can do past that. I think that as a teacher I would attempt to include more nonlinear presentation styles into my lessons so that I can keep them engaged. I think that my particular project came out good but I would have liked to have made it longer or more elaborate if I had the time. My first project was simple enough that I feel like it could be a cool lesson for my class but I don't think it would keep them as engaged as a nonlinear project.
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