(1) ILP "Participation" - Lynda.com

For my first Independent Learning Project I completed a Lynda tutorial on incorporating educational technology into the classroom. Before this assignment I had never heard of Lynda Online Training or that it is free for FSU students! I learned a lot from this tutorial and I highly recommend that any FSU students take advantage of this resource while it is readily available to us!

The tutorial I completed was called "Educational Technology for Student Success". It covered a few main points that one should consider when incorporating educational technology into their classroom as well as overviews of different resources that one could use. The main points it covered overlapped with a lot of the material we have talked about in class, including copyright and fair use, so that part was more of a review for me. However, including tutorials on how to use different resource, such as google forms, was extremely helpful. The tutorial not only showed me how to properly use a lot of popular tools, but it gave numerous alternatives so you could decide which site would best meet your purpose and needs.

By completing this tutorial I learned how to use a lot of really cool tools that will be extremely helpful in the classroom. For example, teachers often assign quizzes to assess their students knowledge. Google forms will allow me to create quizzes and see my students responses quickly and easily if we have access to computers in my future classroom. Here is an example of a vocabulary quiz I created using google forms!