I feel like I've gotten a lot out of this class in such a short time. I loved making an idea for an app. I really got into the design and really wish I could have made it for real! It would be really helpful for my students, but maybe one day I'll actually get to make it! The idea of using a podcast took me a long time to think about but I think I came up a good idea with real potential to continue in the future. To connect math to real world applications helps the students greatly, so I want to continue with them this year. The wiki can be a really cool idea to try in math but I would need to really think about what I would want to have the wiki on. Its great  for the students to work together and to teach them responsibility for their work. The biggest thing though that I will use in this class is the WebQuest. I loved making it and it seems like it has great potential in the classroom. Like I posted before, I want to try to flip the classroom more often and the webquest could be perfect to help me with that. I really enjoyed this class and plan on taking everything I learned into next school year. 

I've set a goal for next school year of using the idea of a flipped classroom on a very regular basis. I recently talked to a teacher that uses a flipped classroom ever day, which I don't think I want to do just yet. However, its a great teaching strategy and I want to use it way more this year. I read this blog post http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-ramsey-musallam and realized I spent too much of class time on lower level thinking and have the students use their higher level thinking at home. I want to switch this because I want to be there to help the students with the more difficult material in class. This is why I have started creating videos for each of my lessons. I don't plan on using the flipped classroom idea everyday but if I have videos for each lesson, I can use them whenever I do decide to flip the class. Then, I can post all the videos too for students to use as review for the assessments. I also found this site that I thought was helpful on how to flip the classroom. http://ctl.utexas.edu/teaching/flipping-a-class/how

I just made my first podcast. I never like listening to myself talk! Its also hard sometimes for me to think about podcasts in the sense of a math class because math is a very visual subject. Normally what I do for my students is record screencast videos for them to watch at home. Then they can see the problem being worked out in front of them instead of me just talking about it. However, after a lot of thinking, I decided to go a different route and not talk about how to do a problem but instead something else I discuss with my students a lot throughout the year, math in real life situations. I find that students have a hard time connecting math into the things they do on an everyday basis, so I decided that I would create a series of podcasts on each of the topics I teach and explain real life applications and careers that use the topic. I know that this is important information for the students to hear. When they can make the connection to something real, the material becomes more than just a lesson into something they actually want to learn. In my Algebra 1 course I teach 8 topics so I plan on making one podcast for each of them to have the student listen to before we start the unit. Then they understand the importance and relevance. 

Here's the podcast if you want to listen!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx7x4KPyC7U_V0hqb2s2b241WFE/view?usp=sharing