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 …
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 …
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 …
Because of the current pandemic, instructors are facing the challenging task of making their courses both accessible and applicable to learners. Professors are expected to tailor their content and pedagogical practices to address their students’ preferred learning styles. As us students (or most of us, at least) are forced to …
In recent years we have moved to a media-rich world where there has been a growing interest in the use of multimedia throughout education. Today, we live in a world in which digital technology is part of our everyday lives. Technology is a powerful tool that offers extensive opportunities for …
If you’re a doctor who doesn’t follow privacy laws… does that make you a FIPPAcrite? It’s interesting to consider how it is that we are to maintain our privacy. How it is that we consider and assess our own perceptions of privacy. It’s crazy that we have to determine our …
What does it mean to own music? Brett Gaylor’s “open-source documentary” RiP: A Remix Manifesto (2009) is an attack on corporate culture for using copyright laws to silence freedoms of expression. Gaylor explores the flaws of copyright in the information age, suggesting that copyright laws need to make sense for …
Today’s classrooms are structured to fit into a rigid system that leaves essentially no room for one to be creative. Creativity simply does not comply with the rules of standardized education and are generally seen as a practice saved for your own free time. Throughout the documentary Most Likely to …
