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Blog Post #9

I was in 8th grade when Covid hit, so I spent the rest of the year online like everyone else. I had to use Zoom and Canvas to attend class and get work done. I think Zoom is effective because it allows the speaker to screenshare and teach in a kind of face-to-face manner. However, it is very easy for students to get distracted or not pay attention to the speaker because they can turn off their camera and do what they want. Canvas is also a great way to assign work and keep track of grades but it was very challenging for me to learn strictly through instructions on Canvas because sometimes they are unclear or not very detailed. 

An open educational resource is one that anyone can use and typically can be shared or edited. I found an article on OER on the FSU Libraries website. It explains that there are "5 R" permissions associated with OER: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. The website says that OER are extremely helpful to college students because it can help them save money on things like textbooks. It is also helpful for professors looking to create course materials. The article outlines a national campaign called #TEXTBOOKBROKE that informs people about alternative options to high-cost textbooks, specifically OER.

One of the new skills I acquired while working on Assignment 4 was adding a voiceover video to the Powerpoint. I had always wondered how teachers did that and now that I know I think it is something I will definitely use in the future. I liked this assignment because it taught me a lot about how to use Powerpoint, especially how to use animations to enhance my slides. In the future, I would need to cut down the amount of information I had in the slides because my video was way too long. 

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