Teach Who?

This project was one that I never expected; instead of the teacher teaching us, we were going to teach the teacher! 

Our goal in this project was to teach your teacher how to add something new onto their blog. We created steps, slides, and pictures to make it easy to explain our topic. Each person in our class got a different topic to teach, so by the end it would be an amazing blog post with neat things you wouldn’t expect. I wasn’t in class the day we all got to choose our topics, so I was stuck with some easy ones. I tried my best to make a presentation that would explain how to make tags in your post, and also the use keyboard shortcuts, and how much time you can save using them.

Driving Question

HOW CAN I ENHANCE THE STORYTELLING PRESENT IN MY LEARNING PORTFOLIOS?

I can enhance my storytelling by making sure my blog is always telling my story. I can add pictures, links, words, and reflecting to show how my storytelling has improved and changed. Each post is unique to its creator, and I want to make mine interesting and not something you have to read; something you want to read. A persons story can tell a lot about them; who they are, their choices, their actions… but enhancing this key idea is what people are really looking to read. My learning portfolio represents myself, nobody else, and it’s my job to make it interesting, interactive, and engaging. By learning new things from my classmates ‘Teach Your Teacher’ reflective posts and from my own research, I can enhance my learning portfolio into something better than ever before.

Tags

The first topic I chose was tags. Tags aren’t as cool or interesting as some of the other things that go into making a blog post, but it does add something new! A tag is kind of like a hashtag in a way, and you can add as many or as little as you wan’t. Usually, you add tags that follow along with the topic or theme of your blog post, but really its up to you! 

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are something I use everyday, not just in blog posts. They are a way of cutting down time when you are working on a iPad or laptop. As I learned when I was researching for ‘Teach a Teacher,’ there are many more keyboard shortcuts than you would think; some are simple, like copy and paste, but there are more people don’t know about that save you a lot of time. 

Reflection

This project went really well for me, I thought my presentation was easy to follow and simple enough that you could carry out the tasks without to much thought. I focused my presentation on making sure it would be easy to do, so each person that followed it wouldn’t struggle to compete the tasks. I had fun designing my presentation and adding examples of my own work so people could see what it looked like when it was done. I thought I did a good job on this project, and the one thing I wish, is that I got a different topic to teach my teacher. Making a presentation about keyboard shortcuts and tags also taught me about them, and made my life a bit easier!

Conclusion

Looking back and reflecting on the project we just did, I found that through my research I learned new things as well as teaching my teacher new things. I found it interesting to see what my blog could become if I used all the new techniques our class learned came into focus. Each new blog post I create will improve and be better than the last.  

Thanks for reading my post!