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     When Covid hit I was in the last quarter of 8th Grade, so they really didn't do much to keep teaching us other than a weekly zoom call or project on Canvas. As much as I personally don't like zoom calls, it is a great resource for schools and jobs to conduct class or meetings. In High School I used the FLVS online program to complete a couple credits, which was also a great resource. It had all the notes, videos, lessons, and teacher contact info in an easy to navigate setup. I never used Google Classroom, though I know lots of schools did use this for learning during Covid times. I wonder if I would have grown to hate online learning less if I had used Google Classroom over just Zoom and Canvas.

    Open Educational Resources are resources in the public domain used for teaching and learning. This could be anything like infographics, lesson videos, and textbooks. Researching OER's I found an article by M'hammad Abdous, "Unlocking the Potential of Open Educational Resources: Trends, Benefits, and Challenges in U.S. Higher Education." This article talks about a recent report that shows that only about 29% of college faculty use OERs because of concerns about quality, time, and lack of knowledge. It then goes into studies proving that OER help students lower costs, improve grades, and increasing their success rates, especially in underrepresented groups. Abdous provides ideas to increase OER use, saying that colleges should provide better funding, faculty support, and technology to make OER more accessable to students. The link to this article is below.

https://www.odu.edu/facultydevelopment/article/unlocking-the-potential-of-open-educational-resources-trends-benefits

    Working on Assignment 4: PowerPoint for Information Dissemination I learned a bunch of new things about PowerPoint. I had never worked with the recording feature before so it was interesting to try to figure out. I like how you can record over all the slides and then go back and rerecord certain sections without having to redo the whole recording. I also learned how much you can do with the animations. You could add so many steps, and it was super easy to switch around the order in which pieces would appear on the slide. I liked this assignment and I hope to learn even more about PowerPoint with assignment 5.

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