What Did I Learn in EDTC 300?
In this post, I have provided a link to my learning summary for the semester. Thanks for a great couple of months!
Learning Contributions in EDTC 300
Here I have included a link to my slideshow which contains some examples of how I was able to be helpful on Discord as well as leaving quality comments on my classmate’s blogs throughout the semester! Throughout this course, I feel like I interacted with my peers more frequently in an online class than I have to date! I would like to thank all my classmates for their time and dedication to commenting on blog posts and answering questions on…
Knit’s a Wrap!
“Knits” a wrap! It’s hard to believe that this semester is finally coming to a close. Throughout the past couple of months, I have been working on a knitting project in order to further develop my knitting skills. Starting out, I had no idea how to knit, mostly a foreign skill to me, but was something I chose as it was something that my Grandma loved to do. I would have to say I was successful in learning the basics…
Finger Knitting?
Overall, my knitting project has just been ok. I am still continuing to work on my dishcloth and it feels as if it is taking forever. I feel like the next thing I need to work on is building my knitting stamina. I have no problems sitting down to knit, but my hands get sore after knitting 1 row so I never really get much done in 1 sitting. However, I recently learned about a different kind of knitting that…
Tech-Savvy Teaching
In the past few years, there has been a significant rise in the use of AI both online and within the classroom space. Today, teachers have a variety of online tools at their fingertips that they can utilize to assist in a multitude of tasks. There is one specific ai tool that I have briefly come across called “MagicSchool.ai” that can assist teachers with “60+AI tools to help educators with lesson planning, differentiation, assessment, communication, and more.” according to their…
Behind the Screen
In today’s era, our lives are continuously shaped by our presence online. Every scroll, click, comment, and post leaves a digital trail of breadcrumbs for anyone to stumble across. With cancel culture being such a driving force online, some individuals forget that even though they are behind a screen, they are still accountable for what they do, the things they say, and ultimately what they choose to post. As a whole, I do find myself on social media quite more than…
The ABC’s of Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is not the first term that comes to mind when I think about my grade 1 students and technology. Integrating technology into a grade 1 classroom is something that takes a lot of thought and care while planning a lesson. Though my students have grown up in a world surrounded by technology, getting them onto their Chromebooks to work on anything other than “Mathletics” or “Epic” is anything short of a literal nightmare. Therefore, the amount of time…
Coding Blunders
Coding is a concept as a whole that is relatively new to me, and one that I am still trying to wrap my brain around. I have never been the most technologically advanced person so I never truly realized the thought that needed to go into making a computer make one move. Within our class I learned about the website The Hour of Code where I got a bit more comfortable with coding through one of the game options they…
Tying Up Loose Ends
Just when I thought I was done with my project I was slapped with the reality that I thought majorly wrong. I got to the last row of my project after it took me painfully long and wondered, what exactly do I do now? That’s when I consulted trusty Google! One of the first results to pop up was a site called “Just to Sew“. Now, I’ll be honest, I was a bit skeptical about consulting a page for sewers…
Stitch by Stitch
I’m finally on the downward swing of my knitting project. This weeks new skill was learning how to decrease the number of stitches on my dishcloth. Decreasing the amount of stitches is important as I have been knitting on a diagonal and at the moment my dishcloth is a triangle shape. Whether or not these sorts of projects are knit on the diagonal most of the time I’m not really sure. I followed the first video I found that was…