Author: Jacquie Ehrmantraut

  Here is the link to the vlog I create for this week’s learning project post. The links (and minor info) I couldn’t tag in my video: 1. Tips for beginner runners -I definitely keep the ‘go slower but go for longer’ in the back of my mind. I...

Check out my vlog post for exploring Tik Tok. Here is the link to the parent control video I mention in it but couldn’t link in video....

I had asked a few people about this course and they said the best part was the learning project, so I immediately starting thinking of things I wanted to learn before class even started. I had a few key elements that I made my personal requirements for this: A)...

The relationship status image feels like it really sums up my relationship with social media. There are endless complexities that come with social media’s presence in our lives. For me, I constantly grapple with my conflicting thoughts/actions/beliefs with social media. The battle to balance the relationship with social media...

Well, this is it…the last blog post for EC&I 834!   I couldn’t be happier that this, my first ed. tech. course, was my third class of my program – I learned so many things that I know will be helpful to me throughout the rest of my program...

Welcome to the finale of the semester-long process of my course creation! I put a lot of hard work and time into each of my blog posts, most of which are linked below, and in the course itself, so I hope you enjoy the culmination of my process and...

The forms of student and student-instructor interactions I’m planning on implementing in my course prototype include F2F interactions, Teams chat or posts (in which students/teacher can comment/respond to), Parlay, journals (unsure of medium yet), and Flip. This may seem like a little too much, but I like to think...

As mentioned in last week’s Zoom meeting, we are often too hyper-focused on our own projects to have that “outsider” view that is so critical in improving our work, so I am grateful for the feedback I received for my prototype and module #1. With a course focused on...

As a quick reminder, the course/unit I am building is for ELA A30 (grade 12, Canadian Perspectives unit). I find it easiest to map out courses/units using a calendar, so I have stuck to this method for my course framework (I just chose to frame it using next month’s...

In looking through the options of tools, I decided to get a closer look at Parlay. I chose this tool in particular because I thought it might be a way for me to update the staple discussions I have in most of the classes I teach (senior and AP...