Summary of Learning – My Technological Takeaways
Below is my video I made for my summary of learning. Have a Great Summer Everyone!
Category: EDTC300
Final Learning Project: Can I Doodle or Draw?
Appologies, I posted this without words by accident, this is a draft, sorry again For this last post, I enjoyed going back and looking at my old posts and drawings. It was weird looking at old sketches and seeing the path I took in an attempt to practice and learn drawing, so I compiled a
Contributions
As this semester comes to a close, I am writing this post to discuss how I interacted with my EDTC community. I began this class with very little experience with interacting online as I don’t have any social media accounts other than Facebook (and now Discord). I also use a flip-phone (they are amazing and
You’re a Wizard Harry: Testing Magic School
At first I must admit I was a bit skeptical at the use of AI to help with teaching, however upon entering Magic School that perspective immediately changed. Magic School is an AI tool developed for the sole purpose of helping teachers of all classroom levels have an spend less time on the more tedious
Slow Progress Is Okay
This week was particularly difficult as it felt I was making no improvement despite practicing. The progress that I felt I had been making suddenly took a massive halt and left me confused and wondering what I was doing wrong. After struggling for a few days I decided to switch tracks and pivot away from
Tracking a Cyber-Footprint
The concept of having a Cyber-Footprint was not something new to me, however the in-class exercise of looking up my own name and trying to find out what the internet contained in relation to my life was an interesting experience. This led me to wondering what methods existed online to track down leads and find
Tracing With Extra Steps
Even though I have been enjoying practicing the basic head model it started to feel quite repetitive and boring and I felt my motivation to practice quickly dropping. To solve this I decided to start drawing unique head shapes. To do this I created a bunch of test drawings using different shapes as their base,
Exploring the Web, Is information Fact or Fiction?
As time passes it becomes more and more important to be able to distinguish fact from fiction on the internet as the average amount of usage continues to grow. The Canadian Telecommunications Association declares that “Mobile wireless users in Canada are consuming more mobile data than ever, with the average data usage per subscription reaching
“Seeing” Improvement
Taking my motivation and goals from last week, I decided to place my focus on getting better at understanding eyes and how to draw them. This pursuit led to me finding HOW TO EYE by shuen_art. This is a great short video that covered the different parts of the eye, how to shade, color (not
Busy Bot, Busy Me (Hour of Code Exercise)
For my task this week I chose to attempt an Hour of Code exercise on Code.org. The exercise I decided to go with was BusyBot! developed by Blackbird which was a coding exercise recommended for grades 9+. I chose this exercise as many student won’t have taken coding lessons going into high school, and I was curious