Blog 10

I would like to teach high school English if I become a teacher and honestly I don't really see an implication for Excel in my subject area. However, I suppose that Excel would help me keep track of student grades or attendance. I could also conduct surveys about novels to see what my students enjoy and I could log that data into Excel to analyze it.

The most interesting topics for me when reviewing my classmates' blogs were their opinions on flipped classrooms,  the use of twitter in educational settings, and their IPLs. There were many different opinions on flipped classrooms and my classmates all had different experiences with them. Twitter was also an interesting thing to read about because a lot of students have never used twitter in a class before. I liked reading what people learned through their IPLs and it gave me a lot of ideas for learning in the future.

I really want to learn how to code in Python. There is a lot of application of the program in the humanities field and I really think that it would benefit me to learn it. I learned a little bit of it before but I want to be proficient in it. A lot of professionals in academia are using Python for linguistic and structural analysis of texts. It would be in my best interest to learn Python well and be ahead of the game for graduate school. I think I am going to find lessons online, maybe through Ted X, YouTube, or Khan Academy.