Final Course Walkthrough

Here it is folks! The end of the creation of my first blended learning course. It has been an adventure trying to figure out how to create lessons for an online unit where students are completing it both synchronously and asynchronously, but I think it went well overall. I also got to try out a

Course Prototype Interactions

Communication is key to creating a successful community. It is important that students have opportunities to interact with not only the instructor but other students as well. How this communication happens can differ greatly depending on the format of the course. My course prototype involves both synchronous and asynchronous learning so the ways that this

Module 1 – Review

Now that we have completed module one and received feedback from our reviewers I would like to clairfy and explain additions that could be made to my first module. Comments/Considerations Overall, the feedback on my module overall was positive and there are not too many changes that are required for my first module. Reviewers mentioned

Module 1 : Types of Clouds

Here is the first module for my blended learning course on weather for grade 5! If you would like to read more about my course profile you can find it here. I decided to go with GoogleClassroom for my course as it is a great way to be able to reach both the in class

What’s Poppin?

For this week’s assignment I decided to explore Popplet. Prior to today I had never heard of or seen this platform. When I saw the name I got excited as it was listed as a mapping resource and I have yet to use a platform in my classroom for that purpose. To start, I went

Cloudy With a Course Profile

This course will follow the Saskatchewan Curriculum guidelines for the Earth and Space Science: Weather – focusing on outcomes WE5.1 , WE5.2 , and WE5.3. Target Audience & Timeline This course is intended for students in grade 5 at a Saskatchewan school. Students may also be in a 4/5 or 5/6 combined classroom. This course will take 8-10

Blended Learning & Me

When I first heard the term blended learning, this is what immediately popped into my mind: I had thought that my experiences with blended learning pretty much came down to the pandemic teaching experiences where we were in class and then online constantly due to fluctating case numbers and random classroom shutdowns. However, in class

Summary of Learning!

Woohoo! The end of a semester always feels so good, espcially when Christmas is right around the corner. This is the last EdTech class that was availible for me to take so I am very sad to likely be going back to writing boring papers instead of blogging and doing fun projects like this. For

VR in the Classroom: Reality or Fantasy?

The first experience I ever had with virtual reality was when I was newly dating my boyfriend (now husband). He and his father are both VERY into technology and gaming. One day, he showed me his dad’s Oculus VR . The first simulation I tried was very simple. There was a big acorn tree and

Makerspaces

I had never heard of makerspaces prior to this week. Unfortunately I also missed class and thus missed out on the interactive action that came along with it. Luckily, since classes are recorded I was able to catch up on what I’d missed and also find some more information on my own. What Are Makerspaces?