These days, words are cheaper than ever James R. Bailey, professor of leadership at the George Washington University School of Business was once quoted, “Triggering and sustaining meaningful change is arduous stuff. It’s more about deeds than words. These days, words are cheaper than ever.” These days, words are cheaper than ever?!?! Those seven wordsContinue reading “The One Where He Either Defined the Moment or the Moment Defined Him”
Continue readingThe One Where He Related Squid Game GIFs to His Learning Project
If you haven’t watched Squid Game on Netflix yet stop reading this blog and go do yourself a favor and devote the next 10 hours of your life to Netflix’s newest hit Squid Game. You are welcome. WARNING! SPOILER ALERT! Stop reading if you do not want to know any spoilers. Lately most of myContinue reading “The One Where He Related Squid Game GIFs to His Learning Project”
Continue readingThe One Where He Watched Yeast Rise for 3 Hours
Teddy Roosevelt obviously didn’t live in a time where he had access to 24 hour drive-thru’s. What do I mean by this last statement? Well as I waited for the yeast to rise in my homemade dough I really questioned the value of my free time. I struggled with the time and effort it wasContinue reading “The One Where He Watched Yeast Rise for 3 Hours”
Continue readingThe One Where I Instantly Regretted Adding an App
I have to start off this post by telling you that two things annoyed me about this app right from the get go. It made me feel old…like super old. Apparently you have to be 13 years old or older to have a snap chat account. So by default snap chat sets the year toContinue reading “The One Where I Instantly Regretted Adding an App”
Continue readingThe One Where He Gained 20 Pounds For His Major Learning Project
I have chosen to go down the path of self learning for my major learning project. I debated many different things to attempt to learn: guitar ( but decided two months of self taught lessons would only give me enough courage to play acoustic versions of Weezer songs around the campfire and I shouldn’t subjectContinue reading “The One Where He Gained 20 Pounds For His Major Learning Project”
Continue readingThe One Where He Overthought Every Post
Full disclosure: I am an over-poster… I post too much on my Facebook account. I probably annoy my friends from high school that I haven’t seen in person for 20 years because they know every time my kids have lost a tooth or my thoughts on professions mini putt-putt on the French TSN channel (notContinue reading “The One Where He Overthought Every Post”
Continue readingSummary of Learning
Hello everyone! In my video I tried to capture the essence of learning at my current teaching position. I am truly fortunate to work at a school that places student at the center of all program planning. I have learned so much for everyone in the EC&I 833 class. This is my first class onContinue reading “Summary of Learning”
Continue readingEC&I 833 Week 4 – Assistive Technologies
The blog topic for our final week of class is on Assistive Technology. As stated by Young & MacCormick, “assistive technology refers to the devices and services that are used to increase, maintain, or improve the capabilities of a student with a disability” (2021, page 1). Many of the devices that we learned about inContinue reading “EC&I 833 Week 4 – Assistive Technologies”
Continue readingEC&I 833 – Week 3 Assessment Technologies
“Assessment is a broad term that encompasses all actions that teachers and students engage in to retrieve information that can be used to evaluate and change teaching and learning at the end of a given time period” (Timmis et al, 2016)” This portion of our EC&I 833 learning has been an eye opener for me!Continue reading “EC&I 833 – Week 3 Assessment Technologies”
Continue readingEC&I 833 Week 3 – Web 1.0 and Web 2.0
In the early 1990’s, my career began a journey with technology and the influence of the internet. “The system has affected most aspects of our lives” (Moreau, 2021). The evolution of the internet since 1990 has had a huge impact in education. When I first stepped into the classroom in 1992, my exposure to technologyContinue reading “EC&I 833 Week 3 – Web 1.0 and Web 2.0”
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