This week, I tried my hand at coding for this first time! I’ll be honest, at first I was super nervous. Starring at a screen full of code feels like I’m trying to read a different language (which I guess I am haha). Next semester I have to take my first ever computer science class, so I figured I better embrace the challenge and overcome my fear of coding, and boy was I pleasently surprised! I decided to try out…
Another week has gone by and it’s another week of not being able to do embroidery. It seems like everything worked against me this week haha. This week I planned to work on my piece all weekend, as I usually do, but since I don’t have a printer I asked my mom to print off the pattern for me at her work. She accidentally left it there, which was no big deal since I could go grab it on Sunday,…
Digital citizenship is defined as “the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use.” There are 9 elements that we must focus on in order to comprehensively understand digital citizenship. These include: Digital Access Digital Commerce Digital Communication and Collaboration Digital Etiquette Digital Fluency Digital Health and Welfare Digital Law Digital Rights and Responsibility Digital Security and Privacy These aspects of digital citizenship can and should be addressed in every subject and area, and there are multiple ways…
This week came and went a lot faster than I had intended, which meant I didn’t have as much time to work on my embroidery as I had wanted. This week my goal was to use DMC, a website that has various free craft patterns, to try following a completely written embroidery pattern. I spent a long time on the website checking out the various patterns and eventually I settled on a beautiful space/desert-themed piece. The patterns I was looking…
I was born in 2003, and by the time I started Kindergarten I had begun playing with technology. In grade 3, everyone I knew was spending their time on Animal Jam or Club Penguin and by middle school, we all knew how to work a computer well enough that teachers started asking us for help when they had problems. Despite how early we started accessing the online world, digital safety wasn’t taken very seriously. Digital safety has never been realistic…
This week for my learning project I continued the embroidery piece I started in my Powtoon review and attempted to document it via a Youtube video! The piece was drawn for me by my sister and I’ve been using it as a way to practice my basic stitches and try out an erasable pen. Overall, I think this piece turned out nicely and I was pretty happy with how the maker worked. I decided to vlog myself working on it…
Twitter. It’s the one social media I’ve constantly avoided. It’s always seemed like that website people go on to start arguments, post lies, and occasionally talk about the news. I’ve gone my whole life managing to barely avoid Twitter, that was until EDTC 300. Now, I won’t lie and say I’ve never used Twitter before. My generation grew up on social media, and I knew more about crafting a tweet and hashtags before I joined the app than my parents…
This week for my learning project I decided to follow a Youtube tutorial! I’m a visual learner, so this was still relatively in my comfort zone, however, following a whole pattern without words was still pretty hard for me. When selecting the tutorial I wanted to follow I tried to find one that would go through the whole pattern on video as well as have a printable or traceable option available. This proved to be very challenging as many great…