Being a distance learner is a very different task than going to school each day and doing in-person learning and having to do so during the height of Covid-19 was proven a challenge for almost all students and educators. Distance learning, when not in a pandemic, is a very nice option to have for many students that have other responsibilities besides school or simply do not live near their school of choice. However, this usefulness is a result of the several years of trial and error during the peak pandemic era, many students, me included, felt very detached from school and lost a lot of motivation for academia. The programs used by schools to electronically contact their students was no where near developed enough for every student in the school to continue education completely from home.
Open Educational Resources provide free materials to anyone who would like to access them and utilize them for educational purposes. They are a great way for teachers to freely share their resources with each other, in a tine where they are expected to pick up so much work outside of teaching hours and account for so many student materials. Academic Earth is a Open Educational resource that provides information from a variety of awarded universities to provide free resources to students and educators. Educational resources like this one that provide free assistance and resources for learners for free so that everyone can have equal access to information.
During the two PowerPoint assignments, I was able to come to a much more clear understanding of the plethora of uses that Microsoft PowerPoint has to offer. I became much more accustomed to the use of different transitions and animations to enhance the powerpoint, especially in the Dissemination assignment, where they worked in combination with the recorded lecture. Doing such a long powerpoint of this kind of information, using so many animations, it was important to consider how to balance them so it doesn't look overdone. Overall, both helped me to increase my ability to use and excel at powerpoint, so that I can improve its use in my future career.
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