My last EDTC 300 blog post… where did the time go!? I have learnt so much from this course and a large contribution of that is because of my awesome classmates. They contributed to my learning in this course so much, but this blog post is going to show the ways that I contributed to others. Here are some of the things I have done throughout the  semester: Continue reading Learning as a Team: My Contributions →

This week, I used Hour of Code for the first time to create a game about The Grinch. The game started out with simple coding, then proceeding to get more challenging as the lessons progressed. Overall, I found the coding fairly easy to figure out. If anything, I struggled actually trying to play the game more than creating it (apparently I have slow reactions with computer games).

As fun as it was, I don’t think this is something I would use. I personally did not see a whole lot of value in something like this and would have benefitted more from coding a website or decipher the coding that exists within my blogs. However, I could see if you wanted to teach students coding, this could be a good introduction activity. As a ELA major, this is something that I don’t think I could find a place to fit into the curriculum and not sure if I would get my students to use it.

Check out the video to see how it went!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZUdrfJxRv4&t=62s

https://youtu.be/GHQdECqUnm8

Throughout every single secondary ELA course, there are many opportunities to explore and teach digital literacy skills. However, for this specific blog post, I am going to focus on the ELA A10 curriculum (my favourite course) and more specifically, two outcomes: CR A10.4 and CC A10.1 indicator C. Continue reading Teaching Digital Literacy in ELA A10 →

Last week, I decided to complete my weekly learning project task in the form of a VLOG. In order to do this, I had to use a video editor. Since iMovie was already installed on my mac computer, I decided to give it a try.

STEP ONE: I needed to record content to put into the movie. Since I do not own a camera, I just used the camera on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S8). Here is where all my problems started… For some reason I have yet to figure out, my phone would randomly stop recording without me realizing it (if you have any suggestions, please help a girl out). After multiple tries and pauses, I recorded what I needed to.  Continue reading iLearnt iMovie →

This week, my task was to cybersleuth one of my classmates. I put on my detective hat and went to work investigating my classmate Hanna-Marie. Here is some of the information I was able to find on her, simply by googling her full name.  Continue reading Discovering Digital Identity (Cybersleuthing) →