Author: <span>lindsayrepp</span>

Software is Eating the World!

For the past couple months, I have decided to teach myself to code in in my spare hours. Of course, I’m not looking to become a full-time coder, by any means. I definitely don’t have dreams of creating the next big app (bigger than Tik Tok???). Maybe, that would be …

Creating Effective Slideshow Presentations

What makes a good presentation? Let’s look at Hans Rosling’s presentation on Statistics as an example. In this video, he is delivering a Ted Talk about statistics and child mortality- a topic that may not be the most engaging by title alone. As you begin to watch, the most impressive element of …

Edcamp – Online

Our edcamp was an informal session held by our professors for us – future teachers. Anyone could present or collaborate, but the focus was on teamwork and connection between our group. I was mainly in the section focused on Google Classroom.   The question was: “is Google Classroom a viable …

Dialogue Circle

Wow…. This is hard. It’s been a while since I’ve posted on my blog! Sorry for the delay (although I’m sure no one is checking my blog regularly). So, I guess I should catch up.   A few weeks back we did a dialogue circle – essentially it was our …

Reading and Writing Short Fiction

Creative writing: Theme/Symbolism   Check out my handout!!   How to read/write a short story   Before this activity, students are to read “Hills Like White Elephants” Lesson objectives: students will learn to identify the use of symbolism and theme in literature They will be able to distinguish between the …

More Coding!

Similar to CodeAcademy, Khan Academy gives you challenges to complete after a short lesson. It began with a few simple tasks, such as creating a shape after showing a walk-through video on how to complete said task. I started off making a circle. Once you complete a task correctly, it …

Thank you, Next!

Hello again everyone… welcome to chaos. Okay, that may be an exaggeration. But I’m definitely feeling the stress of the semester! I feel like I can’t get one second of peace haha. Oh well! It’s not so bad…. Just a lot of small things. Like writing this blog post for …

Education Means Breaking Free

Yikes – what a week this has been. Busy is an understatement! If you’ve been following along with my blog from the beginning then you might remember my first blog post (if not, you can find it here). It was a discussion about Greg Whitely’s documentary Most Likely to Succeed …