For my Visual Arts Education class we we’re to learn about and explore the concept of place based art. For my personal project of place based art I chose to make chalk drawings in various neighbourhoods throughout Regina. I drew images of First Nations/ Aboriginal women wearing masks. Originally, the purpose of my place based …
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My Learning Project
Ok, so for my learning project I wanted to learn how to play a song on the guitar. After I learned it on guitar, I also wanted to learn it on piano, after that I decided to learn the guitar chords as well. Here is a video of the whole process. In the beginning, the …
My Summary Of Learning Rap
For my final summary of learning project for my ECMP 355 class I wrote a rap. This is it, I need to fix a few typos in the lyrics but nevertheless here it is, I hope you enjoy! Bellow the video are the lyrics. And after the lyrics are a few sentences of other important …
The Wonders of The Artists
My last post for my personal aesthetic practice “Childhood Wonder”. One of my favourite things to do is look at art. Ever since I was little I loved to leaf through books that had images. One of the genres, or subjects, I enjoyed most as a child was dragons and monsters. Seems a little cliche …
Th Wonderful Implications of Reading and Writing Language
This is another post for my personal aesthetic practice. When I was very young, I used to love when my mom would read stories to me and my siblings. Sitting on the couch and hearing these beautiful and complex worlds pour from the pages and through my moms voice, to my ears and into my …
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Some More (Old) Online Learning Project
So, a long time ago (back in February) I took this video of me trying to learn how to play piano using Youtube but forgot to post it. Oh well, here it is. I hope you enjoy it, right below is the video I used to learn it as well. I will post what I …
I Wish I Could Fly
This is another post for my Personal Aesthetic Practice “Childhood Wonder.” Haven’t we all dreamed of flying at some point or another? I know I have, and I do almost on a daily basis. Unfortunately I was blessed with opposable thumbs and a very large cerebral cortex instead of wings to fly (just kidding, I’m …
Why Don’t We Have Classes on Emotional Intelligence?
Our current education curriculum has a vast number of classes that aid in the development of many different aspects of our students learning. We have physical education courses that help students maintain and grow in physical well being, math classes aid in cognitive development, social studies courses help our students grow in understanding of social …
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Tech Task #5: So I Tried Coding and I Am Baffled
So I just tried coding using Codeacademy and I am baffled at how complex it is and I can’t imagine how people manage to code whole websites and programs. This small activity of coding my name took me a decent amount of time to do even with step by step instructions. I think coding is super …
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Where Should Education Be Going?
Our current education system is like a huge factory. Students are grouped together by their age and are pumped through the exact same classes, and learning is generally confined to the classroom. Although this has some benefits such as it being relatively simple to teach the same content year after year to student after student, …
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