Thank you EDTC300! You learned me to find amazing friends and discover unbelieve thoughts! Sometime we don’t know how far we are able to go! This class gave me this chance to rethink and react differently and now I am ready to continue my journey toward being a wonderful teacher! This week I used Powtoon which is the one of the most user-friendly animation software I have ever used , although its videos are limited to 2 minutes and half…
Lifelong learner means enhancing your personal competences and knowledge which does not necessarily occur in an educational environment but is also defined as a collaborative term which involves improving life long learning of others through your learning journey. This semester, other than weekly zoom meetings , Discord, Twitter, Word press and blog platforms opened me a new door to interact with my peers which honestly changed my traditional view of learning and teaching. This post is dedicated to demonstrate how I…
To be honest, this semester, EDTC300 introduced me to lots of great technological tools and importantly coding was part of this exciting journey! This week I tried to code HTML language which always seemed difficult to me! I decided to practice with Code Academy which I think is approachable for younger students who are not much experienced in coding! HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language and is used to create the structure and content of a webpage! Step 1: Learn how to code! Are…
Emotions have a substantial impact on attention and the learning process, particularly problem solving and concertation. We are living in a technological era which is accompanied with loads of social networks and online resources that not only are not always true but also are meant to do harm! Students need to be aware of fake news and its destructive influences, although teachers play a key role to develop theirs cognitive skills in this regard! For instance, in a digital world,…
Once upon a time, there was a girl who was pretty and smart. Since she could remember, she was trying to be an actress. She had strived hard to take some roles in one of the public series and shortly after she became a celebrity! After a while she fell in love with a guy who was supposed to marry although things did not go well after that! In 2006, she became the center of a video sex scandal! Nightmare…
Digital citizenship can have a broad definition which importantly implies appropriate behavior related to technology, in other words Digital citizenship is the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible, and empowered technology use (Mike Ribble). We are living in a technological era which seems like the Internet and technology are playing an important role in people’s minds particularly the younger generation are more encountered with advanced software’s or applications like tweeter or Tik Tok. In addition, I have recently read a…
This week I decided to choose Animoto as during past years I have not used any video makers and I thought it must be pretty interesting to learn an advanced tool during my learning journey! I selected Animoto due to some reasons, firstly, no video experience is necessary, if you are a beginner like me :D, I highly recommend you to take a look at this powerful software, secondly it is wonderful to share that Animoto has been nominated for…
To be perfectly honest, I am very new to this! Twitter and blogging is not such a thing I normally use, although after third session of EDTC300, my mind surprisingly changed! To say the least, last week, we got a great chance to chat with extraordinary teachers on Saskedchet on Twitter, it made me realize how much world might be small and accessible! You can create your own tweets and share them instantly with large number of educators only by…
Hello! My name is Tina Khaveri, I was born and raised in Iran and I am currently living in Saskatchewan, “ land of living Sky”, I recently immigrated to Canada on my own and cannot help making new friends and learning more about amazing cultural differences! This is my first semester at the University of Regina in the Secondary Education program, specializing in Mathematics. I am currently working in Ashley’s home store as an administrator. I was first inspired to…
My name is Tina Khavari and I am currently a student at the University of Regina to become a mathematics teacher, This is an official page to share my thoughts, stories, beliefs, and experiences throughout my stunning educational journey. I also invite you to accompany me with your feedback!