A love letter to an obsession Reading has always been a big part of my life. In the more recent years, I have spent a good chunk of time reading more historical novels, biographies, and textbooks for classes. But there was a time in my life when wherever I was, whatever time it was,...
Reflection #1
Creating My Worldview...
Marysville Insitu
Description At Marysville, we were fortunate enough to experience using stop-motion video with a real-time Grade 3 class. We were given a group where we received limited instruction besides incorporating the students’ desk pets into the videos on what to do, we weren’t given firm criteria, and this allowed our group to let their...
Weekly Reflection 9
Wowie Zowie This week’s class topic is ‘Innovation in Education’. Describe the SD#5 Design Lab. How does it fit in with ‘Innovation in Education’? What stood out to you? Which activities did you choose to do? How do you envision using this space with a class? What sort of project would you choose to do?...
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...
Weekly reflection 6
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Inquiry Post 6 –
Gamification of Chess. One of the things that resonated with me in week 9’s class was how impactful gamification can be. And I think this is a technique I can use to get kids hooked into chess. Although I have talked about how chess really fits into the curricular competencies such as critical thinking,...
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 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,...
Weekly Reflection #3
Here is my Screencast on EPIC!, this was made using Screencast and edited using Windows clip master....