Digital Citizenship can be summed up in 9 key concepts: Digital access, commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette, law, rights & responsibilities, health & wellness, and security (to find out more about these concepts visit: Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship). Since the internet has become something of everyday relevance it is …
Tonight I participated in #engchat, a chat on twitter for those of us interesting is the English education. The chat was extremely interesting, there were so many people interacting and sharing ideas. I just wish I was a little more skilled at keeping up with all the different conversations. …
I think collaboration is such an extremely important aspect in educational systems today. The web has made all kinds of collaboration available to teachers, students, and administrators. There are so many ways in which we can use online sources to collaborate within our school or community or even outside our …
This is the ringtone I made for my Audio Assignment! I made it using the effects on Garageband. It was pretty simple, but actually took my a while because I played around with lots of different sounds. (2 Stars)…
Daily Create: 50
My favorite smell is my pillow. For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with smelling my pillow, weird- I know.
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This is our radio broadcast!…
This assignment was both difficult and fun at the same time. I really enjoyed figuring out Garageband on my mac. Although it was interesting, it did take a lot of time to figure out how to combine tracks and edit the tracks after we recorded them. I had a hard …
Today’s daily create was to take a picture of something that portrays your favorite color. This assignment was perfect for me, because I am OBSESSED with the color pink, so I had lots of pink things to choose from. I chose to photograph my build-a-bear er bear, because it is …
Daily Create 38: a photo that describes how hold you feel.
This photo is perfect to describe how I feel. I am in such a middle stage in my life that I am having a hard time dealing with the fact that soon enough I will be an adult (some …
Digital Assignment 363: 4 Stars
This Assignment was a little difficult for me because there were a lot of steps, but it was so much fun! This is an assignment that I can see students really enjoying. First I found all the photos I would use then uploaded them to …
This photo represents who I want to be by signifying
my desire to travel the world and to fall in love.…
Bill Generaux makes a fabulous metaphor in his post Who Is Ed Parker. Education is 100% running, leaping, maneuvering through obstacles. It is the teachers who roll with the punches, adjust and mold as they go and learn that are truly great teachers in this modern technology filled age. …
I’m from the white house with blue shutters
All that’s missing was the white picket fence
I’m from the cherry blossoms
And swimming in the river
I’m from the baseball park next door
From a two-story tree house
And the sound of cars being made
I’m from “these …
These articles were interesting in that they pointed out how I already use web 2.0 storytelling. When I first heard the term, I was quite baffled to be honest but turns out I do it all the time. My personal blog is like a diary type story of my life, …
I enjoyed what Dr. Campbell had to say about teaching through the new technological lens that frames our society. As he makes clear, and as I completely agree, technology needs to be taught in mainstream classrooms. This doesn’t mean the use of an online chatroom for discussion. Teachers need to …
So, I am a little uneasy about this blog creation process. I knew I was far from a tech expert but I had some MAJOR trouble setting this thing up. First thing I had to do was find out what a domain name and webhosting even was. After I (somewhat) …
