Category: EC&I 831

We were lucky enough to have a guest speaker this last week: Alan Levine, who is a/the Director of Community Engagement for Open Education Global (OEGlobal). There were so many highlights from his discussion, many around the idea of open access and open educational resources, but the thing that...

As a recap from my previous post, I was slowly starting to go back to TinkerCAD, and have been working on my tavern-style book-dividing inserts (better name incoming…). And I was hoping to look creating curves and curls, as I’ve got the block shapes down, but I got sidetracked....

We started to explore some open educational resources (OERs) during class last week, though this is hardly the first time that I have heard the term, or encountered some of these platforms. Many of the resources that we were introduced were new to me – not really surprising –...

I am crazy late getting this post together, because it has been two of those weeks. You know the ones – where life and work and exhaustion all collide, and it’s a beautiful disaster. Between parent-teacher interviews, the marking rush before parent-teacher interviews, dealing with everyone in our house...

This week’s prompt came with a few different options, all relating to the current state of digital culture in relation to education. What a loaded issue right now. As a high school ELA teacher, I have to tackle the third prompt provided: With the rapid information sharing, misinformation, and...

I have not eased into this particular skill at all, which has been both fun and a little chaotic. And I realized there a couple of things I kind of skipped over in my last post, so I’ll cover some of those here as well. Beginner Software and Ongoing...

We are now about four weeks into the new school year. That means I have had almost 20 days – 20 classes – to establish procedures and to help students settle into expectations that I have for my classroom. Lots of things they fall right in with, and there’s...

This gorgeous piece of equipment was not supposed to arrive until the end of the month, so I thought I would have more time to do some research before I got into the hands-on stuff. Not so much! So this is going to be a big first update. Before...

We are starting this course looking at social media, and going through the history of social media this week really took me back to my own experiences. I’m going to start pre-social media, just to really capture my whole experience, and because I think it becomes significant looking back...

This is my eighth class in my Master’s program. It feels crazy to write that! But I digress (already…sheesh). This is my eighth class, and my third looking at ed. tech. issues, so I’ve been eyeing EC&I 831 for a couple of years, hoping to fit a section in...