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For my independent learning project, I decided to use Lynda.com again. Lynda.com is a learning platform website that helps individuals learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. It includes a library of videos and tutorials of top-quality courses taught by industry experts. For my EME class, I was assigned an assignment that I have to use Excel for. I decided to use Lynda.com to become more educated using Excel. I did an Excel tutorial to learn the basis, since I was unfamiliar using this program. This was a great opportunity to learn more about Excel and do great on my assignment. This is a screenshot of me using Lynda.com to learn new skills on Excel! Prior to my assignment in this EME class, I had never used Excel. I knew that Excel is used by teachers for grading and by many business professionals.  Microsoft Excel  is a spreadsheet program . Spreadsheets present tables of values arranged in rows and columns t...

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A flipped classroom is a teaching strategy. This strategy reverses the roles of a traditional learning environment. A traditional learning environment consists of instructional content being delivered in the classroom. A teacher will teach their students in the classroom. But a flipped classroom is where instructional content is delivered outside of the classroom. Students will learn the material at home and discuss it in the classroom. In a flipped classroom, students watch online lectures or collaborate in online discussions while engaging in concepts in the classroom with their teacher. Students will come to class with questions they have accumulated from learning material by themselves at home. I think having a flipped classroom strategy can we very effective but there are still pros and cons to it. For example, it allows students to work on their own time and create flexible schedules. It allows students to have control. But it may also cause students ...

Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows individuals to bookmark and tag web pages. It also allows users to highlight, annotate, and add sticky notes to webpages. An individual can then share these annotations with other Diigo users, which makes this tool even better! I was introduced to Diigo in my EME class and I have been using it for a few weeks now! I have learned a lot. I have learned how to link my annotations to a group and learned how to share web pages with other individuals. Prior to my technology class, I had never heard of Diigo but now I am a big fan of it. I have even started to introduce it to my friends. Using Diigo has taught me how to annotate and read web pages better. I feel like it is easier to understand and comprehend information from web pages when I can write notes on my own laptop screen. Diigo allows individuals create groups where other individuals can share and comment on each other's links. This makes it easy to work on class projects. I can ...