Inquiry Project Summary

Goals: For me, this project felt like a lot of self-exploration. I did not know where I wanted to take this project, and I didn’t really know what to do at all. Setting goals early in my project gave me some rough outlines for myself to explore. How it went: Jumping into how this...

Weekly Reflection 8

What is Scratch? The way I would describe Scratch is as a user-friendly block-style coding program that is a super gentle way to allow people of all ages to start coding. It is simple, but there is much room to explore and create cool coding programs and games. It feels like a “gamification” of...

Weekly Reflection 7

What does Digital Curation mean to Curating and organinzing has always been something that I have always struggled with. Growing up I was always the kid who had an unorganized desk, and the one who would shove papers directly into a backpack, never to be seen again. Having poor organizational skills and ADHD made...

Inquiry Post 5 –

Chess in the classroom After finishing my Midway Meeting Ali, she had the really great idea of collaborating with some older grades to help design the checkerboard pattern. If you have been viewing any of my past posts, you will know it has been a struggle to get a base for my checkerboard. There...

Weekly Reflection #5

Stop motion animation. Discuss your group’s creation and how you envision using stop motion videos in the classroom. I love stop-motion, it has been something that I have been interested in for a long time. I remember back when I was in around grade five, my friends and I would come home after school...

Weekly Reflection 4

My Observations The technology that my classmates and I observed was the students using the website/app EPIC! A reading program that provides books of all kinds in many different formats in an easily accessible manner; I talk about this in my week three reflection. I observed the app being used in two different forms,...