For this Daily Create I was inspired by Paul McCartney. I tried to find the clip but could not. He was on Graham Norton a british talk show. He talked about writing songs. This Daily Create was his process. To make this Daily Create I picked a lyric and wrote it at the bottom. I...

For this week’s assignment I decided to get a jump on it. I Looked through the assignments and chose Classical-Modern Mashup. It looked like something that I could figure out but would also push me. The assignment was to take a modern music video and replace the sound with a classical song. The first thing I...

End of week 2. After two weeks of daily creates I am proud to say they did not overwhelm me this week. They still took time but I was not overwhelmed by the idea of having to create them. I feel like I created everything to the best of my ability and each week I...

For my second Daily Create this week I called in backup. I called my sister. I wanted a funny meme. We tossed ideas back and forth and she eventually decided we needed more back up. So she called her friend. Her friend is the one who had the idea for General Tso I had the...

What I chose to focus on in this class is technology in the classroom. Last week I critiqued a video about how technology can be used in the classroom. This week the weekly reading inspired me to look at technology in the classroom from another angle. In part of the chapter it talked about people...

For the Audio assignment this week I struggled. First I downloaded Audacity because most assignments had it in the description. I then chose Audio Assignments 1446 Favorite Song as the assignment I was going to attempt. Attempt being the keyword. I pick a song and and followed these instructions. They gave the reader a step...

I loved the beginning of this chapter! “‘remixing’ involves taking cultural artifacts and combining and manipulating them into new kinds of creative blends and products”  The first sentence had me thinking right away. I always thought of music when I heard remixing. This definition opened my mind to what remixing really is. So much of our...

Today’s DC was a challenge to create what you want. Several ideas went through my head, first I wanted to photoshop my dog into a Jurassic Park picture. I tried once again to use the  app on my phone that I used last time. I was really struggling. So I decided to push myself I...

So it is the end of week 1. This week really pushed me. I photoshopped something!  I feel I completed the assignments to the best of my ability. It was a struggle. I often had 20 tabs on chrome open at once. I would read what canvas said, then the syllabus, then the blog, and...

Weird Bird For my second Daily Create I first found a poem I would want to read. I wanted something short but also funny. I thought of Shel Silverstein first. I started reading his poems and came across Weird Bird. It was perfect, it fit both of my criteria. Next I had the issue of...

Technology in the classroom | Ethan Dickens | This week for the first week I critiqued a Ted Talk video. The link is above. It is a short video only 5 minutes long but if focuses on my interest of technology in the classroom. Whe I liked about this video and what stood out was...

I added my hockey photo to a 1962 photo of a hockey game Blackhawks verses Maple Leafs. During the game a player lost his contact lens and they stopped the game to look for it. I chose this because it is not your typical history picture and I have pictures of me playing hockey. I...

In reading Lankshear and Knobel’s first chapter several things went through my mind. The article discussed new literacies and different ways they are viewed. One of the first pieces that stood out to me was when @batcheloro responded to this quote from the article, “Understanding literacies from a sociocultural perspective means that reading and writing can...

The three things that made me happy are… A parent wrote a note to my principal telling her thank you for hiring such a wonderful teacher who pushed her daughter all year. She also said that her daughter loved school and and felt she had made a personal connection to the work and the teacher!...

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