The Power Of Technology-Skype!
I have heard about Skype before, in fact, I have used it to video chat with my family in Mexico. However, it never crossed my mind that it was also used in the classrooms for… More
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Creating Visuals
Visuals are a great way to make things interesting and attract a persons attention. Often when we speak in a public setting or present anything we use visuals to enhance our presentation and keep it interesting. Creating a visual for my independent learning project was tough because I did not know what I wanted to showcase … Continue reading Creating Visuals
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Using Skype in the Classroom
I have personally used Skype for several years now and have seen the evidence of progression in the quality of picture and sound as well as its other features. Most of my experience with Skype has been using it to video chat with family but I have also recently used it to work on group... Continue Reading →
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Why Are Read Alouds So Important?
Read alouds are very important, especially for young children as they help expand their vocabulary. As a future teacher, it will be very important to introduce the students to read alouds at the beginning of… More
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Learning Project: Literature Circles #1
Circles by [email protected] is licensed by CC by 2.0 For my 20 hour learning project, I have chosen to learn all about literature circles. This is a topic that I did learn some information about in my Language Arts methods class and I will share some of that information here but I would like to... Continue Reading →
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13 Super Festive Christmas Science Decorations
Christmas science decorations --- say whaaaat? Who says there is no science in Christmas? Which ideas will you try out with your students or kids?
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Vonnegut stories
I was thinking about the shapes of stories for a long time before I started writing this post. When I studied media in GCSE’s we were told that all stories started with an Equilibrium where everyone is happy. Then there will be a Disequilibrium, where something goes wrong, but in the end the story will … Continue reading Vonnegut stories →
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Unit 4: Sound Effect Story
Sound Effect Story For this assignment I was required to make a story out of sound effects and audio files without the use of words. The duration for the final result should also be no longer than 90 seconds. I decided to tell the story of an Elk walking through a forest with the sound […]
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TDC 2131 “What is Hidden inside Room 106?”
What is Hidden inside Room 106? This daily create was another simple one. Using your imagination you had to decide and provide media for what was behind the door 106. For this create I decided to use a photo taken by me last week at club Sumo. I personally really liked this photo, it captures […]
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Red element in photo
For this Daily Create with the theme of a red element I decided to use this photo I took of my violin and I think this works well for this Daily Create. Advertisements
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What is social media production?
Social media production is the production of media for the use of sharing and participating on social media. My Twitter My Flickr -
Say it like the Peanut Butter
This assignment was to pick our favourite or least favourite and create a gif. Deciding which film to pick proved hard work and I spent way too long deciding that rather than making the GIF. This is because there are so many films that I love and equally so many that I don’t love. First … Continue reading Say it like the Peanut Butter →
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A New Pledge – My first Society
For todays DailyCreate we were asked about a new pledge. I decided to talk about my current experience of joining a Society for the first time at University and how pledging to a new community and overall entering a new community felt. Pledging into Squash was a very easy and welcoming experience, with several friends … Continue reading "A New Pledge – My first Society"
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Little Bo Peep’s Global Pandemic
For today’s DailyCreate we were asked to select a new phone for the Global DailyCreate phone. I decided to use this image of Little Bo Peep and her Sheep near a payphone completely vandalised. I chose this image because it prominently shows a globally innocent character attempting to break the law, break moral boundaries and … Continue reading "Little Bo Peep’s Global Pandemic"
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Unit 4 Daily Create 3
Hello, This daily create is the ‘Accidentally Type the Wrong Thing in Image Search and End Up Not Disappointed‘. Typing the wrong thing is a very easy mistake to make. I meant to type into google image search ‘gold fish’, instead I accidentally typed ‘fold fish’. This resulted in a load of images of origami… Continue reading Unit 4 Daily Create 3 →
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Something Simple, Velvet Inspiration
Following the DailyCreate idea of ‘something simplistic’ I decided to take a single photograph of a banana being held up by one of my hands. This is, in fact something simple however to many people the image of a banana by itself can hold a lot more meaning. The standalone Banana, at least for me … Continue reading "Something Simple, Velvet Inspiration"
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Unit 4 Daily Create 2
Hello, This daily create is the ‘A New Pledge‘ task. The task was to suggest an alternative to the (US) “Pledge of Allegiance” as a way for school kids to start each day. I tried to throwback my brain back to primary school and remember the things us school kids would do. Some pledges i’ve… Continue reading Unit 4 Daily Create 2 →
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Unit 2 – Animated GIF
To make this animated gif I simply went onto youtube and found a scene from my favourite tv show ‘Power’ and copied that link, then went onto www.makeagif.com and inserted my link into where it says the enter the Youtube URL (see screenshot below) and just edited the part and wanted and pressed convert. It is as […]
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Unit 4 Daily Create 1
Hello, This daily create is ‘The new DS106 Phone‘ where we are to get imaginative and create a phone with special features and annotate them on to an image. Below is an annotated image of what looks like a standard mobile phone. I based it off the current phone I have now as I really… Continue reading Unit 4 Daily Create 1 →
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Daily create- #tdc2128- Earth Picker
I feel like a robot repeating myself with how fun these daily creates that I do are but genuinely it was fun to do. I’ve never done this before which is surprising considering how many times I’ve been onto google maps looking at other cities in the world. As you can see by the screen […]
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Unit 4- Sound Effects Story
Hello, The task for Unit 4 was to create a Sound Effect Story, explanation in the title of the task really!! We had to create whatever story we wanted using only sound effects. I made an accounts with free sounds.org where I had access to a whole data base of sound effects to choose from.… Continue reading Unit 4- Sound Effects Story →
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Unit 3 Daily Create 3
Hello, Daily create 3 is the ‘Turn your art into pop art and amaze your family and friends!’ create. This daily create is about Andy Warhol’s iconic paintings and being able to make an image of your choice have the Andy Warhol effect! I thought I would choose an image which I like to use… Continue reading Unit 3 Daily Create 3 →
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Classic DC “Five Card Flickr”
Five Card Flickr For this classic daily create we are required to search in Flickr a tag and put together a story using 5 images! Once upon a time where was a goat named billy who lived in the forest. It was a lovely day and he wanted an adventure! Before he set off an […]
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Unit 3 Daily Create 2
Hello, Daily create 2 is the ‘What is your d106estiny?‘. The task was to find a ‘106’ in your world, or to make it so there was one is your life and sometimes destiny needs a little help along! Quite bizarrely ‘106’ was in my world but I didn’t really realise because I don’t suppose… Continue reading Unit 3 Daily Create 2 →
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TDC 2133 “Eleven Eleven”
Eleven Eleven For this daily create the title and brief was simply “Eleven Eleven”. And with it being the 11th of the 11th, remembrance day, I decided to post a photo of mine i took last year to the day. It was a remembrance writhe placed at the bottom of one of the university’s buildings […]
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TDC 2135 “1 red element”
1 red element This daily create talked about the power a single red element can have on a black and white image. The only colour immediately attracts the eye to its self first bringing a focal point to the image giving it a much stronger effect. This image was easily made to look this way […]
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Unit 3 Daily Create 1
Hello, The first daily create of unit 3 is the ‘Post-it in the wild‘ daily create. I like to occasionally do my own twist on some daily creates so I decided to do this task but make it more personal by targeting it at one my friends. I thought it would be nicer if I… Continue reading Unit 3 Daily Create 1 →
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Unit 3: Story analysis
Unit 3: Story analysis Kurt Vonnegut uses lines and charts to analyze stories as if they were fed into a computer. The story is played out along an X and Y axis. In this case I have decided to analysis the well loved tale of goldilocks and the three bears and analyzing it against the […]
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TDC 2136 “What is your d106estiny?”
What is your d106estiny? Numbers appear to be everywhere in our world and sometimes you can pick out certain number and our names cant help but notice repetition or patterns. Like in a sci-fi movie we instantly assume that there’s a reason we keep seeing the number 106 flashing up in our lives; On the […]
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Having to give yourself flowers.
Drawing small isn’t that hard when you know how to draw something. Flowers are the only thing I can draw to a good enough standard. So once in a while I decide to draw them, pin them on my wall and think am I really only going to receive flowers when I die? It may... Continue Reading →
