Week 8(b) – Final Blog Post

              My first big takeaway from this class deals with the Connectivism learning theory.   This school of thought particularly resonated with me. The notion that the field of education needs to have a paradigm shift from the traditional way of thinking is intriguing.  Traditionally, school has been based on receiving input of information that students

Assessment Technologies

For this assignment, I chose to create an assessment that I could use in my kindergarten classroom using Seesaw and EdPuzzle. I will outline my experiences with these tools below. Seesaw is an application that I have heard a great deal of buzz about over the course of distance learning. I had heard of it

Screencastify Lesson

Hello! This week, I used the Google Add-On, Screencastify, to narrate a presentation I created through Google Slides. This presentation can be used for online learning as well as review for students that need additional presentations to achieve mastery. I also plan to take some of the individual slides and turn them into a Nearpod

Nearpod Activity

This week, I chose to create an activity using Nearpod. Nearpod is a learning platform that includes tons of great options for teachers to utilize to create engaging presentations for their students. Presentations can be viewed in two modes – live or student paced. This is fantastic because this allow this platform to used in

VIDEO CREATION – WEEK FOUR

This week’s assignment was to create a short video. The requirements were that it had to have more than one video clip, a b-roll, music, and credits. I chose to use this opportunity to create a digital version of “Meet the Teacher” for this assignment in anticipation of at least partial distance learning this fall.

PowToon Project

I used the web-based site Powtoon to complete this week’s Eras of the Internet assignment. Powtoon essentially allows you to create a video that you can customize with various backgrounds, images, animations, music, and voice-overs. There are options for free and paid memberships, but I created this assignment with the free version. I began with

Learning Theory Matrix

For this assignment, I began by reviewing the recommended list of websites provided through Canvas. I refreshed my memory of the behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism learning theories. The connectivism theory, however, was new to me, so I had to do a little more reading with regard to this field of thought. I found the connectivism