Over the last few months, I entered the world of Snapchat and Instagram. My project initially included two other apps as well. Duolingo I dropped immediately as it did not fit with the direction I decided to go with my project. PicCollage, I was using most of the way through, but although it was similar… Continue reading Photosharing Apps in Schools – My Major Project Journey
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My Empathy Learning Journey
Our major projects this semester gave us the opportunity to dive in and learn about a particular aspect of digital citizenship and/or media literacy. I chose to focus my learning on the building of online empathy. Since I am a Learning Resource Teacher and do not have a classroom of my own, I felt it … Continue reading My Empathy Learning Journey
Continue reading »Nothing but smiles for #thehappinessproject
#thehappinessproject. Wow! Talk about a rewarding experience. This term I knew that I wanted to do another project that would allow me to include my students and looking back I can say I am beyond proud of the hard work … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Digital Literacy in Saskatchewan Science: A Curriculum Guide
It’s finally done! It ended up being more of a companion to the science curriculum and the digital citizenship education guide. …
Continue reading »Photosharing in Schools – Privacy Implications
I have decided to do one last short post prior to posting about the culmination of everything to do with my final project. I did not post previously about the very extensive work I did around the privacy policies and terms of service agreements for Snapchat and Instagram, and I really think this deserves a… Continue reading Photosharing in Schools – Privacy Implications
Continue reading »Scientific Literacy and Digital Citizenship Lessons
As I worked on my resource for digital literacy in science classrooms, I soon learned that it would be very …
Continue reading »Privacy Project Roundup
CHAPTER 1: The PRoject Ending my experience in ECI832 with a look back over my major learning project, dubbed the Privacy Project. The project itself was borne out of an email exchange with Alec Couros revolving around my uncertainty on where I was going. While not yet feeling confident enough to spearhead a social activism […]
Continue reading »Going Global!
An important component of (digital) citizenship and (online) empathy is the ability to connect both locally and globally. As discussed in my previous blog post, service learning and volunteer initiatives within our own communities can help to build empathy in our students. However, global digital citizenship is just another layer when it comes to helping … Continue reading Going Global!
Continue reading »Major project: Final thoughts
Out of the four options we were given for this semester’s major project (Option 1: Development of a curriculum-supported digital citizenship/literacy resource; Option 2: Personal journey into media; Option 3: Internet-based social activism project; and Option 4: Student-designed project), I decided to dive deeper into my personal journey into media (“option2”). I decided to take … Continue reading Major project: Final thoughts
Continue reading »Learning How to Bend
A friend I haven’t seen in a while recently sent me a text and we had a brief convo. Click on the link to see: Kyla’s textingstory Describing to someone else exactly what I learned while taking this class is difficult. Most of the classes I’ve taken previous to this one have an established curricula or…
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