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 I did experience distance learning throughout my sophomore and junior year of high school. I did not enjoy distance learning and found it to be completely useless. Teachers are unable to make sure you are on task and many students just end up cheating because they can, which results in not learning anything. It is also very hard to stay engaged when you are online as looking at a computer screen all day can get extremely tiring. As a teacher I would make sure that the lessons I teach are extremely engaging in order to keep my students alert and engaged. 

Open educational resources (OER) are resources that anyone has access to. They do not have copyright or anything like that, which means you can use these resources in your classroom with no problem. There are 5 rights associated with these resources and they are Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2019.00152/full This article focused on the expenses that come with being in college and how open educational resources have contributed to lowering the costs by allowing resources such as textbooks to be available for free to students. 

I acquired many new skills working on the two powerpoint assignments. I had not used Powerpoint since my freshman year of high school, and since then there have been many updates that have improved the site. There isn’t anything I dislike about PowerPoint. I think it is a very useful sight that allows you to present information in a more entertaining way. 

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