I have learned quite a few things on my journey of learning to knit. You cannot just jump right into a project with no knowledge or skills – you will mess up a lot!!! You will mess up and have no idea how to fix it, but that is a part of the process of […]
My last attempt at knitting went way better than my first attempt. I found purling to be quite easy to keep up with. This week I decided to give myself a challenge – to make a new project that combines a row of knit stitch and then a row of purl stitch and switch back […]
I am currently teaching grade 3/4 and we have just began to look at researching and making slideshows on the computer. Prior to this, my students, mostly my grade 3s have not done a ton of research or anything online for educational purposes – although they are all pretty in tune with YouTube channels and […]
Throughout the semester, I interacted with others in the class and others online in general to extend the learnings of myself and those whom I interacted with. Blog Hub: I contributed to quite a few of my classmate’s blog posts. I really enjoyed watching some of their work each week. Some of the projects were […]
As an educator, it is important to think about when and where digital citizenship can be taught to students in school – because we all know they need to learn the good and the bad from somewhere reliable. I currently teach grade 3/4 so I was focusing on these grades to relate the 9 elements […]
I wrapped up my purl stitch knitting journey this week and I decided that I should learn how to properly cast off of my knitting unlike last time when I just ripped the needle out because I was frustrated that I messed up!! I searched into YouTube “Casting Off Purl Stitch” and came across several […]
We have been talking about how much information we share online and how much people can find out about you when they search your name. My partner that I am searching is my friend, Sara, who I have known since my second year of university which is about 4 years. The first thing that came […]
This week I ended up focusing just on my getting my purl stitch down. I used the website and video from last week to guide me, but honestly, I didn’t need much help this week! I found that the purl stitch was quite easy and I mostly just worked on adding rows of the purl […]
While I was working with my boyfriends grandma last week trying to figure out how to cast on and continue, she recommended a few things to me to try after I was comfortable with the knit stitch. The next thing she said I should try is the purl stitch (I definitely typed “pearl” in the […]