● Student Name: Kylie Loomis

● Date: 06/05/2020
● Artifact Description: Your Classroom - Create a 2-dimensional drawing
of your current or future classroom using lines, shapes, and text tools.
● What you learned: This project certainly familiarized me with Powerpoints
tools. I never realized how much you could actually create within
Powerpoint, as I’ve only ever used it for class presentations.
● National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)•S
Addressed: Innovative Designer
● 4a: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating
ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic
problems.
● Application of Skills Learned for the Future: I once again
underestimated how challenging this project would be for me. I thought I
could just put down some rectangles and circles and label them and call it
a day. Once I got the outline for my classroom down I realized in
Powerpoint the thickest I could make it 4 ½ pt thick, so I ended up drawing
extra 4 ½ pt lines and outlining the perimeter to make it look more
substantial. Then I couldn’t quite line up white lines quite right on one of
the walls to make my windows, so instead I made white filled rectangles
and had those indent the wall. Another challenge I overcame was I kept
accidentally selecting and moving around the classroom outline, so I
redundantly had to keep lining up the base rectangle with the rest of the
lines I made. I didn’t realize how much time this project would take, and I
will definitely follow your advice to save my classroom as a template when
I do become a teacher. I can see the skills I’ve learned in Powerpoint
being helpful as a teacher because not only can you create a template for
classroom seating assignments, you could also use it to organize students
into reading groups, or for other group projects. You could also use these
skills to create lots of different types of diagrams using circles or
rectangles, lines, and textboxes.