Month: March 2020

“Technology” by Sephko is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Being in the secondary education program to be an English teacher, I have been thinking all semester about how I will bring not only the technology but digital literacy teachings into my classroom. Teaching teenagers it will be very important...

When we use the term disability, we are saying that the person is less than. They are viewed as valued less than those who are able. The article, Becoming dishuman: thinking about the human through dis/ability by Daniel Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole, argues that when we talk of intellectual...

i) Normative Narratives Reading my peers’ self stories made me realize how common it is to do things outside of your gender role and how common it is to be scrutinized because of it. In my self-story, I wrote of playing with worms, which is something you would not...

This week I continued with my goal of learning to sign Vienna by Billy Joel and boy did I continue to struggle! The chorus was even harder to learn that the first verse. One tricky word, in particular, is halfway as it is a very complicated sign. I had...

Last week I set a goal to learn how to interpret a song as I have seen online. I was inspired by this video of a daughter interpreting for her dad at a concert! I set out this week starting to learn how to interpret Vienna by Billy Joel...

This week I Cyber Sleuthed Grace, and it was a challenge! She has excellent knowledge of online privacy! I was able to find her Facebook, which isn’t under her full name as well as her Instagram. With this, I learned her physical appearance, where she is from, what she...

Jaelyn and I partnered up this week to talk about YouTube. Jaelyn took the role of a concerned mom and I took the role of the teacher. We discussed the uses of YouTube and making videos in the classroom as well as privacy concerns! Check it out below! Thank...