Finally the final project has come to an end. Originally my plan was to create a project investigating AI and reading resources but that quickly changed when I realized it was not practical for me to do such a project due to me no longer teaching in an ELA classroom. I changed my focus into […]
Hey all, I’d first like thank everyone for the great collaboration and conversations this semester in EC&I 832. Below is a link to my summary of learning. I chose to go a little old school with the presentation and use some fancy new technology by implementing some Graphic Interchange Formatting aka GIFs to my presentation. […]
This week’s blog prompt is a bit alarming, once I open my phone and see my own screen time numbers in real time. A typical day for me during the weekdays looks quite a bit different than screen time on a weekend. Typical weekday 2.5 – 3 hours, weekend oh boy much bigger number. Most […]
Well, I started off my major project with looking for the best of the best ways to teach reading online for my students. What I found was an immense amount of quality resources. Website such as Diffit to adapt and differentiate resources for my classroom, to Read Theory to track and grow my students skills […]
To be literate in today’s society is much more than being able to read or write. In a quick google search of different types of literacy, there is an overwhelming large list of different topics. Digital Financial Functional Linguistic Cultural Mathematical Media Visual Computer And the list goes on. So what does that all mean? […]
Last week’s topic, I feel had everyone reflecting on their past and embracing or shaking their heads at the way we used to represent ourselves online. Growing up in the late 90’s and early 00’s, I remember to the day when we first got dial up internet, and that terrible sound. It was finally here, […]
Get your elbows off the tables, stop yelling at each other we are in the car, don’t wear your hat in the house….All things I’ve been told many times growing up, as well as referenced numerous times as a parent. What does it boil down to? Etiquette and manners. When I think about how I […]
Rewind to the year 1993. Picture a bubble screen tv that weighs a hundred pounds, and a glitchy video screen. My parents, confused to what they problem could be, pacing, wondering if the TV is a goner. The real problem: dust in the Nintendo. The solution: eject the game, blow some air across it and […]
This week I was drawn to two different articles discussing media and our current use. Reflecting on them, I can’t help to think how far we have come, but in the same sense what have we also lost? In the Federman article, McLahan’s concept of the meaning to “the medium is the message” is explored. […]
Hello fellow EC&I tech enthusiasts. My name is Graeme Gieni and I am currently a Vice-Principal at a Pre-K – 6 school in rural Saskatchewan. I am currently entering into my 15th year of teaching, and this is my 5th class in my TLL Masters. I graduated from U of R many years ago from […]