Category: leadership

Class Activities: Google Classroom + Twine

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Hello,

If you cant guess by the title, today in class we discussed Twine and Google Classroom. In formal terms, Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

I had never heard of Twine before today but after trying it I am amazed.. Twine is extremely fun to use! To me, it is an online story version of the game would you rather. You can create different scenarios in your story that readers can explore. Unfortunately, the stories that you create are hard to publish. Overall, it is a fun activity to do that can tap into your creativity and humor quite quickly. To me, Twine is an A+ downtime activity to partake in.

Take a look for yourself below

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Here is a link if you want to start creating your own stories: http://twinery.org/2/#!/stories

We also created our own Google Classrooms

Personally, I have always had an intense & passionate dislike for anything Google Doc related. I find Google Accounts to be confusing and always end up doing the wrong things when editing a Google Doc. But… creating a Google Classroom was extremely easy! Our teacher gave us a Google Classroom Workshop and then we played around with the program for awhile. I can definitely see myself creating a Google Classroom at some point in my career, although I am partial to FreshGrade now. Below is a video of me playing around on the site. Enjoy!

Purl Accomplished

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I have finally learned how to purl! (You have no idea how excited I am) I can now start knitting my own scarf. Specifically, this upcoming Thursday I will buy my wool and update you further.
Yesterday + Today consisted of purl practice. Thankfully a friend of mine was able to give me some good tips so I now have the purl technique down pat.
What I accomplished over the past two days:

Here is a tutorial of the purl stitch that I created:

 

I will post again once I have my wool picked out! I should probably keep practicing until then though. Ttyl.

Inquiry Idea: K-5 + Technologies Learned in the Classroom

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Hello,

Unfortunately I have been putting this class on the back burner. But, not to worry I will be catching up this weekend! Get ready for at-least 2 new blogs this weekend.

Specifically, today in class we were asked to develop a k-5 appropriate inquiry using some of the technologies that we learned in class. The technology that I will be sharing with you is Google Photos, Screencastify, and Jing.

One important thing that I learned today when collecting photos from google is to go to “tools -> usage rights -> labeled for noncommercial reuse with modification. This now allows us to use photos that are copyright safe. (Something that I have never done in the past.. Yikes)

Screencastify is super cool as it is an extension from Google Chrome that allows us to record our screen activity. Jing is also a screencasting computer program but it allows us to take a photo of our screens and edit them (ie. creating arrows or descriptions).

For my Inquiry idea I will be creating a Grade 1 Guided & Controlled Science Inquiry based on foxes! This topic fits into the BC curriculum as some of the content that must be covered includes the names of animals, the structural features of animals in the local environment, and the behavioural adaptions of animals in the local environment.

To start off the class inquiry I will most likely present a fox gif.tumblr_p3lgz4Tz561uocsx1o1_500

Once this is shown to the class I will ask: “What do you see? What do you know? & What do you wonder?” The answers to these questions will be the basis for the inquiry.

If I wish to present more photos to the class I can select some noncommercial rights images from Google and edit them using Google Photos. The process is uploaded below.

 

Here is the edited photo Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), Norway.

Here is the original photo Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), Norway.

As you can see I lightened up the photo and cropped it.

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Here is a photo of me using the application Jing. As you can see I am using Google Photos to edit this photo. I have added an error to the edit button so that I don’t forget how to use this application once I get home and add it to my own computer.

Knitting Tutorials & Goals for the Upcoming Week

On By michellecherylshieldsIn audio editing, blogging, intellectual property, leadership, open inquiry, social media, video editingLeave a comment

After learning how to use iMovie and GarageBand this past Friday I decided to edit some of my beginning tutorial knitting videos that I had made a few weeks ago. I was able to upload them to YouTube. I’m unsure of how long they will stay up, as I may have added some audio that isn’t exactly copyright safe. I added “no infringement intended” hoping that might help but the online documents pertaining to copyright are extensive. I’ll worry about that another day as its already 10:30 pm and I’m ready for bed. For now, enjoy!

 

 

This week I plan on learning how to purl. Hopefully the five minute video that I will be learning from will take less than four hours to master. Stay tuned for more, I will upload again later in the week.