In this blog post, I will review several of the resources I have come across that I find very helpful as far as moving towards the “ultimate” classroom. I was challenged to look through an Education course this semester to look further into Math resources but also First Nations and Indigenous ways of knowing and bringing that knowledge to my classroom. Do you like what I have found? Click on the titles of the resources and check them out! Check out my brief breakdown of those below: Making Math Moments That Matter This is a jam-packed resource as far as Math resources go. This is a great tool to being…
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Seven Fallen Feathers
As a learner, I felt that I had a very lacking education when it came to learning about First Nations people and their history as it relates to the European settlers. I had the opportunity this semester to listen to the audiobook for Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga. I also was given guided questions for each chapter and responded accordingly. We were given the option of a “Quick Write” or “Quick Draw”. As you can see, I did a combination of both. The pictures are in correspondence to the chapter reading and may or may not have connection to the writing portion. PLEASE READ: this is a reminder that…
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Learning by Teaching Others
Today is August 17 in 2021. I am currently enrolled at the University of Regina in ECS 495 taught by Vivian Gauvin. She has been so flexible to ensure that I get what I need from this course. A part of this flexibility was allowing me to share my knowledge with my small group of peers. I recently took a course from Katia Hildebrandt named EDTC 300. It had a large focus on Digital Citizenship and use of Educational Technology in the classroom. I was able to define digital citizenship and its nine elements as per Mike Ribble, connect this information to curricula via the Saskatchewan document created by Alec…
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A Penny for my Contributions
Hi again, and welcome to, the final blog post for EDTC 300. For this post, we were asked to compile some examples of how I contributed to my classmates’ and others’ learning. I consider myself a lifelong learner and through this, I can share new information to enhance others’ learning. Learning is not a one-sided experience for me; it is important that I learn from others the same amount as others learn from me. So, not only am I learning but I also like to focus on supporting those who are doing the same. This is what we were able to experience during EDTC 300. We experienced this by creating…
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Summing It Up
Here is my summary of learning from EDTC 300. Here are the resources used to complete this video: YouTube iMovie (for Mac only) Canva (slides) Samsung VoiceNote Recorder
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It’s the FINAL countdown.
It has happened. It is the FINAL countdown (or the final learning project post). I have appreciated this course more than any other because I have been able to pick up my guitar and learn to play enough to feel confident in continuing the skill. This final learning project post is meant to conclude all of the learning that has happened over the last 11 weeks and to share resources that I have experienced and will be valuable to others. I hope that this post gives you motivation and confidence to learn an instrument. I will be grateful for this experience because of how valuable this will be in the…
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An hour of \C0D3/-ing
I cannot believe that this is our last week of prompted blog posts! This week we were asked to go and have some fun coding. We were given the following options to practice coding: Code Academy Scratch Code I chose to use Code and did the Hour of Code option: Intro to App Lab under the “comfortable” skill level because I have no issues picking up new skills when it comes to technology. Watch the progress below: As expected, I didn’t have any issues navigating the hour of code that ended in doing a second one called Dance Party. What I Learned I certainly learned how easy it was to…
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Capo n’ Crunch
As the weeks go by sometimes I feel like learning to play the guitar has shifted from being easy to hard, and vice versa. I have used MANY resources to ensure my success in playing Payphone by Maroon 5. Last week I felt good about my path and thought I would ride that idea out until the end. Now I feel incompetent with that path and have moved back to a previous resource: the video below by Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons. To recall, the difference between fingerstyle and strumming is that fingerstyle uses fingers and single strings are played and strumming uses a pick and usually requires you to play all…
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#fakenews
To continue the conversation surrounding digital citizenship, increasing our students’ digital literacy is one of the ways we can ensure they are reading accurate information. Furthermore, they are completing projects, scrolling social media, and spreading information confidently and competently, especially knowing that the information is accurate. Fake news is all around us. For the most part, people see something with an eye-catching headline. This leads to being blinded by the title and, therefore, ignoring the important information that tells a person its accuracy. I can attest to this “blinding” because, even though I have the information to tell whether something is correct or accurate, I can still read things and…
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If Happy Ever Afters Did Exist
If my title reeled you in again, I am happy you fell for it and welcome back! This week was delightful for my guitar skills. I am starting feel competent at something musical. I did have to enlist in some help this week from a few family members: my sister, Danica, and my cousin, Madison. They both have played the guitar and/or had lessons for quite some time now. Resources used this week: Payphone Tabs from Ultimateguitar.com JustinGuitar from Youtube: Stop Struggling with Strumming! Breaking up the skills This week I decided to start to pick (pun intended) away at the skills involved to play the song. I started with…
