Week One: During the first week of EDTC 300 Katia introduced us to the learning project portion of the class, and I was very excited to pick my project. I have always had a liking for being creative and had even tried starting a business in the past, but it had never worked out. I always feel like I’m switching my hobby, but this class made it very easy for me to keep learning and create a solid business. I decided I would choose beaded necklaces, as I had stated creating them just a few weeks before. To begin making necklaces I watched this video, which was very straight forward and…
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Summary of Professional Learning
It is crazy how fast the time in EDTC 300 flew by, kind of like the past two years! This class was truly amazing, and definitely one of my favourites. I hope you enjoy my summary of learning. I have included a hyperlinked list on this blog post of all the sites and extensions I discovered. Thank you all for the support and engagement, and I wish you all the best in your further schooling or career. Thanks for a great semester, stay happy and healthy and have a great summer! ☀️ Twitter Tweetdeck UBlock Origin Screencastify WordPress OneTab Digital Citizenship #SaskEdChat Feedly IMovie LapseIt Again, thank you all !!
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Enhancing My Classmates Learning
Throughout my time in EDTC 300 I believe I have contributed to others learning in many ways. From Twitter posts, to blog comments, and posts. I have really enjoyed being so connected to my classmates though technology, and it was the best time to learn to do this! As an educator, I believe that as an educator being able to communicate professionally through technology is very important. Furthermore, having a professional identity is equally important, especially nowadays. Twitter Twitter was a great place for not only sharing resources but also connecting with classmates and other educators. At first I was very skeptical about Twitter, and had steered far away from…
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Managing Orders and Learning
As my business grows, I am finding it more important than ever to keep track of my orders as my brain cannot remember every order itself lol. I needed to find an app that would allow me to organize and keep track of orders when they are made, picked up, and paid for, etc. I decided I would use Google Sheets as I was already somewhat familiar with it and I would be able to make a spreadsheet. This app actually worked very well for what I needed it too, and I can return to the spreadsheet to add more orders as I receive them! As you can see below…
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Am I a professional coder?
For this weeks blog post I chose to create a short video by coding on Scratch, which initially I felt confident about. When I first opened Scratch I looked around on the site to find tutorials or inspiration for my creation. I knew I knew I wanted to create some type of story with different characters and backgrounds. When I started coding, I was almost immediately confused about everything… I had no idea how to use Scratch backgrounds or how to use more than one character in the story. I decided I would go to Youtube to try to find a tutorial on how to do these things and came…
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Teaching Digital Literacy with Elementary Students
As internet develops and becomes more and more prevalent to the human race, digital literacy is very important for everyone to understand. Digital literacy is described as one’s ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information on the internet. When doing this, it is important to understand that not all information found on the internet is true or credible. I believe this is important to teach students at a young age because of the amount of fake news and media out there. Young children are very gullible will believe anything they see on the internet, which is why it is so very important to teach digital literacy in the classroom. Fake…
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Learning More and Expanding my Business
As I create and sell more and more beaded necklaces, I have so many ideas of how to expand my business to get more buyers. I’ve already gotten requests for beaded phone charms, belly beads, and bracelets, so I have been brainstorming how to make those. I was then talking to my neighbour the other day and she asked if I could make her an anklet, and this sparked an idea, I told her “Yes! I will look into it”. I first went to Pinterest to find some inspiration, and found exactly what I wanted! Next, I went to Youtube to find a video explaining how exactly to make an…
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Cybersleuthing my Classmate
Cybersleuthing my classmate was both interesting, but also concerning in a way. Cybersleuthing scares me because it is so easy, yet you can find out so much about a person so quickly, as the internet holds so much information. I was amazed with how much I could find about my partner, from a LinkedIn profile, Facebook profile, her blog, Twitter account and her Pinterest account! From her LinkedIn account I learned that she teaches English through Giraffe English, which is based out of Taiwan and teaches children age 3-12 English, which is totally amazing! I recall seeing a Twitter post from her about this! From her Pinterest board I could…
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Teaching Technology in the Classroom
When teaching technology in the classroom there are many different aspects and subjects from Science to English, to integrate it into. When thinking about how I will include teaching technology into my future lesson plans, I came up with many different ideas which also connect to curriculum information, outcomes, and indicators from Pre-K-5. As social media is only becoming more and more prevalent, I believe teaching technology thoroughly in every grade level is very important! Digital Citizenship consists of nine different elements which are as follows: The few that I believe are the most important are Digital Access, Digital Etiquette, Digital Rights and Responsibilities, and Digital Fluency! To me, ‘Digital…
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Keeping up with my learning!
I feel like every time I have spare time I am instantly on Pinterest, like, all. the. time. I could be searching for outfits, educational resources, project inspiration, or even beaded necklaces! Pinterest has endless amounts of things, and each photo is hyperlinked with the website it came from, making it easy to find who posted it, what site, and similar things! I feel that I learn so much from Pinterest on a daily basis, the homepage is algorithmic and shows you things similar to what you search for, share, and pin (‘pinning’ is saving a post to a category or ‘board’ so you can find it later!) Just to…