Playing around with Espresso Coding
For my techtask for this week I ‘played around’ on the espresso coding site. To be honest I was pretty nervous about this techtask- I’ve never tried coding and have actively avoided it in fact!...
View ArticleReview of Toontastic!
Hey just wanted to share another app review! Toontastic is a great app which teaches and improves storytelling, by allowing users to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons. Characters and settings...
View ArticleHelp Me Tell My Story
In another class we have been learning about culturally responsive literacy and have been examining standardized tests used in Saskatchewan to critically analysis them. Our group decided to analyze an...
View ArticleObsolete Things in 21st Century Schools
My mom actually passed along a very interesting blog post to me which I thought I would share to you all. It is called 14 things that are obsolete in 21st century schools, and is written by Ingvi...
View ArticleWho knew you could code while playing Hopscotch?
Quite a few weeks ago we checked out different applications on coding in my ECMP 355 class. I noticed that my mentor-ship classroom had also recently talked about coding, but they had used the program...
View ArticleQuitting Cold Turkey
I ran across a program that I think will be useful in the last few weeks of school, it is called Cold Turkey and it will temporarily block you off of social media sites, addicting websites, games and...
View ArticleBill Nye The Science Guy App Review
Check out the app review I made: I don’t know if you have ever heard of Bill Nye- but he was a big part of my learning about and coming to love science. He is an excellent science teacher who really...
View ArticleMentorship Interview
My interview with my lovely mentor, Mrs. Yollis, be sure to check out her classroom blog here.
View ArticleApp Review WWF Together
This app is produced by the World Wildlife Fund and it gives a glimpse into some of the world’s most amazing animals such as great pandas, marine turtles, elephants, tigers, bison, polar bears, whales,...
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