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This semester in our Education Technology class we were assigned to use an online tool that we as future educators will benefit us later on in our classrooms and with our students. I chose to do “gamification” with upper level history class. Gamification would be using games in the classroom to help students get aContinue reading “The One With the Final: Gaming in History”

While working on the writing as making project I discovered new and inventive tools to make projects such as petcha kutcha and green screens for special effects. I was planning to scaffold the students when using the petcha ketchas along with the green screen and show them how it is used and to also showContinue reading “Reflective Post: (Planning to Teach) Writing as Making”

In the collaborative making process with my group, was in my opinion the best group project I have ever been apart of. When we got our plan to design our pecha kutcha we as a group took off with our creativity. The first picture of us shows how creative we got with using the greenContinue reading “Image Post: Writing as Making=Collaboration copy”

In the process of making the pecha kucha with my fellow group mates I discovered that collaborating with one another is very important. I tinkered with an app called doink is an app that allows you to play with and use green screen. I needed help during this process of creativity when creating my setContinue reading “Process Post: Writing as Making”

So far in the group collaboration I have re-learned how to work with others such on a project. I am learning that everyone has an identical role and everyone is 100% into working on the presentation. I am also learning new things technical wise from one of my partners. We are all learning from eachContinue reading “Writing as Making = Collaboration”

1.) What’s your group work style? So far in my collaborative group with liz and Paola we like to know the details of the work, once we know details we set a game plan of what needs to get done with goals and deadlines, and we like to know that we will have good outcomeContinue reading “Collaboration Post”

I played around with Kahoot in class which is a game for teachers to use to help the students review for test, quizes, or just to get a sense of what the students know about certain things. I chose this website because I want to be a high school history teacher and I feel likeContinue reading “Passion Post”

As I am writing this reflection I was thinking about what Dr. J (not the NBA Hall of Famer) my Education Technology professor had assigned for the class. Dr. J assigned our class homework to reflect on our “Glows and Grows” from our Northstar Digital Assessment, Sparks that interest us from the class, readings, andContinue reading “Reflection”