Category: EDTC 300 Blog Posts

Hey everyone! Below, you will find the video I created to summarize the main topics and ideas I have learned in EDTC 300 this semester! I hope you enjoy the video! *Also, my video is 6 minutes and 15 seconds, but the last 15 seconds are just me saying...

I decided to play with Magic School AI to see what I could get it to do for me from an education and teacher standpoint, and let me say I had fun playing with it.  For example, I saw the Song Generator feature, and I wanted to see if...

In my previous post Mandated Digitial Citizenship Education in the Classroom. I talked about how I think teaching cyber safety and digital citizenship in the classroom could be a step in the right direction in preventing things like The Amanda Todd Case and other situations like that.  I am...

So If you haven’t realized from my title I did an Hour of Coding with the Grinch. I love Christmas and I absolutely love the Grinch (and the Grinch scene I referenced in my title), so I was pretty excited to find this. I still have very little clue...

I googled “creative ways to learn ASL” and the Start ASL website on the article The Best Songs in Sign Language. So I decided to to wach some of the songs and see if I could pick up any sign language from the songs/videos in that article. I decided...

This week I decided to use songs on YouTube, which are intended to help ASL learning, such as the ones I have linked below: Baby Language Song (ASL) By Miss Patty Baby Language Song (ASL) #2 By Miss Patty                                              Hi Hey Hello Greeting Song with ASL Work Together with...

The first time I remember talking about something even remotely close to ‘cyber safety’ and digital citizenship was in grade 6. In my classrooms, I had been using computers since about grade 2 and iPads since I was in grade 4. However my grade 6 cyber safety talk was...

I decided to use Read Alouds, which also has ASL featured in videos on EdPuzzle, such as the ones I have linked below: “Hey, That’s My Monster!” “How I Met My Monster” “Knuffle Bunny” “How The Elephant Got Its Trunk” Check out the video below to see what signs...

This is a large and everchanging topic/question, which makes it difficult to answer. What I think the culture of participation means now for my future classroom may change in 2 to 5 years.  First I think technology and the idea that it is always changing and ‘improving’ (I put...

Okay, so for this week’s learning post, I used videos I found on EdPuzzle to continue on my ASL learning journey. I found EdPuzzle a couple of weeks ago when we were challenged to use a new platform we had never used before. Check out my previous post about...

If you have not already figured it out I found a new website I really like called EdPuzzle. I also enjoyed continuing my ASL journey – but I enjoyed EdPuzzle more. I have decide not to try out a new website to learn ASL from but decided to watch...

I found a very cool website/tool called EdPuzzle. It is  a tool to help create interactive lessons and videos, among other features. So as you may have guessed that it what I tried out this week. I also tried using Loom to screen record what I was using EdPuzzle...

I started off this week’s ASL learning by starting with some intro videos from the Sign Language 101 website about how to hold your hand, reading sign language and facial expressions. I learnt that your facial expressions and body language can be very important when signing because it can...

So I looked at my screen time for my phone, and I wondered where I get all the time in a day. My average per day is 9 ½ hours on my phone, which is higher than the week before, after doing the math, that is a lot of...

Hi All! I have always wanted to learn American Sign Language (ASL), especially since watching the show Switched at Birth a few years ago. If you have never heard of that show, it features a deaf main character and a handful of deaf supporting characters – mostly played by...