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    Week 3- Exploring Canva To Document My Learning

    October 17, 2024

    This week I decided to explore Canva, I have heard wonderful things about it but have never really tried using it. I decided it was time to explore it. The app and website are free to use, unless you want the pro account then you have to pay, BUT as teachers once we have our degree, we get PRO for FREE!!! After exploring this website I plan on using it alot more. The website itself has a ton of different templates for creating anything you could want. I explored a bit and decided to search for infographics.

    Once I chose my template, I clicked on the customize button and it took me to an editing page.

    Once I was on here, I could easily edit text, upload my own photos, add different clip arts and add links to pictures.


    This website would be a great resource for myself as a teacher as well as for my students. I honestly think this site would be rated a 3 or 4 on the SAMR model. There are so many options for students to create something completely new! Ranging from tasks being made way easier to templates, all the way to the ability to start from blank templates! Kids can create their own websites on here, videos, posts, ads, business signatures, computer wallpaper and so much more. Honestly, I am impressed.

    I can’t get these pictures bigger to save my life, so here is a link!
    https://www.canva.com/design/DAGT3AD325w/0i3pL4JMwcgqoKRUuMi50A/view?utm_content=DAGT3AD325w&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor

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    Week Two- A Sort of Success?

    October 5, 2024

    During this week’s attempt at wrapping gifts, I thought I was prepared! I had bought some new wrapping paper, some good tape, and some ribbons, but I was not prepared. I went into this week excited because well who can’t wrap a book right? RIGHT? I started off strong with everything laid out as so:
    wrapping paper, scissors, book, tape

    I started to follow the instructions on this video, it looked fairly simple.

    Well, APPARENTLY, I should of looked at the dimensions of the wrapping paper I bought, because it did not want to work for her directions, that OR I just messed up. Oh hey, It’s me! I’m the problem it’s me!

    At this point I was starting to get frustrated because the paper was obviously too small to wrap around nicely, as you can see in my face here.

    First I started looking online to find other examples just like the video to wrap but I had a really hard time finding anything exactly the same. I decided it would be easier just to switch to something smaller. So out went the book and in came a PS4 game case.

    This worked a lot better size wise for my size paper and I thought that I would have this wrapping style in the bag but, I was sorely mistaken. Who would of thunk that the paper had to be an exact square! Haha, apparently, I need a ruler or something to help me. I have zero patience for things that frustrate me, Hello ADHD, so it started to get a little ugly.

    I took a breather and ended up chopping off the extra length and VOILA! I got it, sort of!?

    This package is definitely business in the front, disaster in the back but whatever! I’ll try again next week, but with the correct size of paper! I honeslty was really frustrated this time and kind of regretted choosing wrapping gifts! Hopefully it will get easier!!! Wish me luck!

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    Week One

    September 26, 2024

    This week I decided to try and wrap a present the way I normally do, because the present I had to wrap was waaaaay too big for the fancy ways I wanted to wrap, plus the front side is open because it’s a toy. Anyway, here are some pictures of how that turned out. present

    I couldn’t wrap it the fancy way I wanted so I decided that MAYBE just MAYBE I could accomplish a bow. I decided to watch this video, and attempt the first bow.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZiaMR1yUDs

    I watched this video a couple of times, and I could not follow along with her speed, so I slowed the video down, probably too slow as it was kind of comical, but I was kind of successful?
    Who am I kidding, it was horendus. The kid getting this present probably won’t care about the bow at all but atleast it is the first step for me in trying to make prettier presents.

    I am sure somewhere in my brain there is a memory of learning how to wrap ribbons, and I think with a smaller, less long rectangle box I might of been slightly more successful. Who knows maybe after this I will become a gift wrapping, bow tying master. I still need to get myself some more wrapping paper, and some double-sided tape. Using scotch tape is fine, but I always, ALWAYS run out of tape and end up using packing tape or duct tape!embarressed face

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    My Relationship With Technology

    September 26, 2024

    My relationship with technology has been an ongoing one that has changed throughout my life. I grew up having no internet at all, to having dial up, cd players to mp3 players, flip phones to smart phones, and etc. It was never something that I felt particullary addicted to even when facebook came around. We all went on for our alloted hour in the evening and then we were off, texting our friends and hanging out. Now, well I have just started myself on a social media detox.

    I use technology for almost everything, school, family calender, work, TV, communication, promoting my business (well trying) as well as everything else we use it for. When I was working full time I relied on my cell for communication within the school as well as staying organized with google calender. Google calender has honeslty saved my sanity, it keeps myself and my husband on the same page and there is no more of, I definitely told you my parents were coming tomorrow, when he definitely didn’t. (Also spellcheck with google, as I sit here trying to spell definitely). I use my laptop everyday for school and editing photos, and sometimes house stuff because it’s just easier on a bigger screen.

    Overall though, this past year on maternity leave I have found myself doom scrolling social media non stop, and all it does it makes me depressed, seeing friends hanging out, wondering why I wasn’t invited. I am the only one of my friend group with kids and it makes really hard. I got so sick of it the one night, sitting there depressed and wondering why the heck I do this to myself. I started looking at phones that are “dummy” phones that only have texting and calling, but I realized that would not work for me. So I decided to just delete facebook/ insta/ tik tok off of my home screen. They are there incase I need to go on them to see a message, or access markpetplace, but I don’t open my phone and instantly start scrolling social media. Its honestly been very refreshing, and hard but only because everyone around me dooms scrools, so I am sitting here bored and wanting to talk but everyone is nose deep into their phones.

    I honestly think social media has ruined our kids childhoods, and I have no intentions of giving my kids a cellphone until like 16 or maybe older. We’ll see how that goes haha. I just can see the kids at schools have no ability to communicate and enjoy being kids when they have no phones, they don’t know how to just experience life without the lense of a camera. I think we need to get back to basics when it comes to technology and remove the addictive aspects and apps. Woman hands using mobile smartphone in the street with icon social media and social network.

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    My Learning Journey Begins

    September 22, 2024

    For my EDTC Learning Assignment, I decided I should give wrapping presents a try. I hate wrapping presents, I mean HATE HATE HATE, Double Hate, LOAAATTTHEEEEEE ENTIRELY! Thats the type of hate I feel when it comes to wrapping presents. I would much rather use a gift bag, it is so much easier. I can kind of wrap presents, I mean I have the basics, but it is not pretty at all. Sometimes I get lucky and it looks great other times….. well lets just say my husband laughs at me hahaha.

    So for my learning jounrey, I decided to first research how to wrap presents! I watched a ton of videos, some were very easy, and some were extreeeeemmmely hard. Like there is no way I would ever have the patience for that! So I’ve watched about thirty videos and I have narrowed it down to four types of wrapping that I would love to give a try! I think it will take me a bit to get each wrapping perfect like they have in the videos. I’ll post the wrapping paper styles that I’ll try further down.

    So I think I need to get some better wrapping paper, some double sided tape, and some nice ribbon. I know I have some stuff around the house that I will have to hunt down, but I know my dollar store wrapping paper probably isn’t going to be thick enough to do some of these wrap jobs. I’ll have to go to Costco or maybe Micheals!

    Anyway, I am going to try these wrap jobs, I’ll post them to what I think will be easiest to hardest. I’ll start with the “easiest” one and post my attempt next week!

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    My Experience With Educational Technology

    September 18, 2024

    Hello everyone! My name is Kacey, and I am in the Pre-K-5 Elementary Ed Degree Program! I currently live in Regina, Saskatchewan with my family. I am married and have three sons. I also have a cat named Skye and a golden retriever named Sport. I am technically employed with Regina Public Schools as an Educational Assistant, but I am currently on maternity leave. I have slowly been working towards my Ed degree for the last couple of years online, and my class preference is online. I have my first in person class this semester and I am enjoying it a lot!

    My experience with educational technology is limited. I have used some programs while working with in the school division since as google classroom, Padlet, iPad, google read and write, google docs and Microsoft office programs like PowerPoint. Other than that, I have not played around with a lot of technology. I have just started myself on a social media purge as it was becoming addictive, I think social media is ruining our kids, though it has its benefits for sure. Overall I am excited to see how technology can be in the classroom and learning how to use some of these new skills will help me teach them to my students. Woman hands using mobile smartphone in the street with icon social media and social network.

    Blogging for me is a new experience, unless you count the old age of MySpace, I have not done online blogging. Blogging takes a lot of work and the people who keep up with it are amazing. I, however, do not have the patience. I really like pictures though and I think a picture blog would be more up my alley. Blogging during this course will be a bit of a challenge for me I think, so we will see how it goes! business women looking city scape and social network connection technology. network connection concept

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