category Weekly Reflections
This weeks class was very enjoyable as we got to experience some outside education and technology in the University of Victoria’s very own and very beautiful Finnerty Gardens. It was not only amazing to get outdoors during our class with… Continue Reading →
This week we learned about the use of gamification in the classroom. I think gamification is one of the best educational strategies a teacher can use in any grade level. It’s fun learning! Of course it cannot only be games… Continue Reading →
Discovering web accessibility tools and brainstorming ways to make our classroom more inclusive in and out of our class has been eye-opening. The guest speakers we had for this class helped me realize the amazing potential of speech-to-text and text-to-speech… Continue Reading →
From this week the statistics in the image/link below displaying how long the biggest online sources, websites, and social media networks took to reach a million users, definitely stood out to me the most. To be honest this blew my… Continue Reading →
Learning design in todays education worldwide usually involves heavy integration of technology, and likely needs too for it to be successful and engaging for our modern day students. Integrating technology using models introduced to me from last class such as… Continue Reading →
There is a lot to discuss from this weeks class as it focused on technologically advanced imagery being used to support classroom learning, and there are so many variations in which they are be useful. Images are everywhere in the… Continue Reading →
I found this weeks class really cool, it had me thinking back to how I would feel If I walked into one of my elementary school classrooms at that age and my teacher started showing us educational videos starring them… Continue Reading →
Before I begin reflecting on the content our guest speaker Jesse Miller gave us from our last class, just wanted to begin by reflecting on what a fantastic speaker or presenter he was. The confidence, the ability to keep the… Continue Reading →
I really enjoyed watching the film “Most Likely to Succeed”, I found it extremely eye opening and intriguing to see a specific school use such innovated methods of education in action. I love how the film opened with the introduction… Continue Reading →