#DigCit

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term Digital Citizenship, (and/or do not have the time to read the linked article), it can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behaviour with regard to technology use, and according to Mike Ribble can be broken down into nine key elements (the following nine…

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What Would You Do?

For this blog post, I worked with the wonderful Megan Gurski (check out her blog and Twitter if you haven’t already!). We decided to create a couple of case studies, that address some of the problems with technologies in the classroom. We created case studies for each other, and then provided hypothetical responses to the…

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Speak Your Truth, Listen and Love

This semester we had the privilege of videoing in with Carol Todd, hearing her story, learning from her, learning about what we can do to address cyber abusive behaviours, and learning about the Amanda Todd Legacy.  As educators, these are the stories that are so important to hear; these are the stories we need to…

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…_ _ _… (SOS) Morse Code is Coding Right?

As I’ve stated before, it’s been difficult tracking my progress with coding, more so because it involves a lot of numbers and codes that I am still getting used to, so the explanation of what I’m doing, barely makes sense to me at this point. The topic of this post though actually came to me…

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Sleuthing Sidekick

I wouldn’t quite say I’m Inspector Gadget with the information that I found, but maybe his niece/sidekick Penny. via GIPHY For my cyber-sleuthing activity, I searched for Megan Marie Gurksi. I started with a simple Google search, and then progressed to searching all of the other social media platforms. One of the first things that…

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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)

The prompt for this blog post is in relation to participatory culture, communities and networked learning environments. We were instructed to watch the first 15 minutes of An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube (Full video). I ended up watching the whole thing, because I was so enthralled by the video and the message. The keynote, Michael…

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Hello Processing!

I’ve been struggling with keeping up with my blog posts, not because I haven’t been working on my project, more so with having to write about the process and experience after the fact. Regardless, here I am — better late than never is what I always say! My last post was about the Hackathon that…

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