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 …
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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 …
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 …
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, …
Tech Task # 4: A Brief History of Arts Education in America
This is a video presentation I made for my computers in education course using Prezi and QuickTime Player. I hope you enjoy!
Start with why, what is your Passion?
TED Talks are awesome, and this is another one of my favourites from Simon Sinek. Its called Start With Why. In this video Simon explains the importance of having a deep meaning behind everything we do, and I couldn’t have said it better myself. Sometimes I get lost in all the rush and business of …
Why Tell Stories?
In my computers in education (ECMP355) course we have been going over storytelling. I wanted to explore the uses and benefits of storytelling, what makes a good story, and how could we nurture the skill of storytelling in our students? I strongly believe in story telling for a couple reasons… Whether it is a written …
3 Original Stories for ECMP 355 (Tech Task #7)
Hello everyone, This week in my Computers in Education class (ECMP 355) we were assigned the task of creating three stories. To create these stories I used 5 Card Flickr, Compflight and PicMonkey. I hope you enjoy! Five Card Story: Audrey’s Dream a Five Card Flickr story created by Benjamin Ironstand Meet Audrey. flickr photo by …
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