Well, as the ECMP355 comes to a close I find myself reflecting on the knowledge I have gained through the course. In my summary of learning, I talk about the importance of digital citizenship, the uses of social media, and the highlights of the course. Most importantly, I believe it is important to think and
Prior to the course, I have attempted to gain my PLN by sharing education articles, and tweeting about education. I had previously used my blog for posts in other classes as well as sharing my experiences in internship and pre-internship. However, I always felt that blogging in this scenario was a chore. Now, I use
Today was my first day of experiencing Edcamp. For those of you who do not know what Edcamp is, it is a PD event for teachers by teachers. Teachers are able to express what they want PD on. For example, Minecraft in the classroom, Genius hour, or classroom management and establishing a routine. Through edcamp,
When Katia had sent us the email that Carol Todd was going to join us for ECMP355 and ECMP455 on April 30th, I wasn’t sure what it was going to entail. I figured it was going to be a very gloomy class, as Amanda Todd’s story is tragic. However, it was interesting to hear Carol’s
Hard to believe that this is one of my final posts for ECMP355 and convocation will be here in the spring. Looking at my progress of painting from December to the first week in April. I hope you can see an improvement because I sure can. To bring those up to speed on my learning project.
My Golden Glow is based on Bob Ross’s painting “Golden Glow”. If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch the grace of Bob Ross. Check it out below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUlprtyhn0 Bob Ross uses oil paint and a wet on wet technique. Just some background information, oil paint takes a long time to dry, up to a
Fall Woods is a painting that I did a couple weeks ago. It is a quick painting that anyone can do. It is another tutorial that is done by Clive5ARt. Clive did this painting on a smaller canvas than I have. I was a little concerned as for this was going to be difficult to
According to an article by International Business Times, “Coding is basically telling a computer what you want it to do, which involves typing in step-by-stepcommands for the computer to follow”. Through my experience in coding using both Code Academy and Hour of Code I began to learn the basics of coding. Through Code Academy I was
After watching the CBC documentary Sext Up Kids. I didn’t find it over surprising to see how sexualized our society is becoming. A simple Google search of “girls” shows just that. I decided to do a quick experiment what would show up if I typed in “girls” and hit the image search. This is a screenshot
I completed my first painting with limited use of tutorials. On the painting, I just did I used many different types of techniques that I had used in other paintings. I decided that I would give it a try and see what I would come up with. Again, I was following Allision Prior’s art techniques
