Mr C's Metacognitive Reflections (EDU 538)

Welcome to another blog. This time I am looking at some communication tools for recording and sharing with students, families, and colleagues. I see this stage of our coursework as leading up to finding integration of multiple tools. I had previously worked with panopto and slack. Learning to feel comfortable with recording and online learning has been an interesting journey over the past few years. I played around with loom through this class, and it gave me similar opportunity to recording in Zoom or panopto, but I like the format for having a camera on me as I also screen share. Sharing videos is slightly easier than my experience with zoom recordings.  This is the library page for Loom . Remarkably similar interface to Panopto. Here is the home page for Panopto showing the videos I have created I think there are similar uses for both of these to communicate a lesson to students. I must give credit to my classmates for some ideas on how to use these to communicate with students...

In an era when technology and screentime is often blamed for distracting students and keeping them from the important work of learning, it is refreshing to see a whole slough of resources that embrace the ubiquity of the internet. One tool that impressed me is the website edpuzzle.com  As a firm believer in student-centered education, I appreciate how this website uses a students interest to develop content that looks a lot like youtube, but adds formative assessment throughout. I have approximated this approach to showing educational videos to my students, pausing every so often to see if they are paying attention, and highlighting important points. While I would pause and ask the class "what were they just talking about? Or did you. all catch that? Why is this important?", Edpuzzle has this built into the video, so that students can watch and respond individually. This creates more accountability, because those students that are not paying much attention can't rely. on ...

Hello and welcome to my blog. The exercise of writing reflections can often be a difficult but enjoyable experience. I like the process of sharing, but can labor over writing things in a way that accurately reflect my thinking. Writing reflective blogs calls for a balance of hooking the reader, sharing something worth reading, and also being vulnerable in a way that others can relate. I like to start with the things that are on my mind.  Here is a picture of a couple baby chicks that hatched last week and have taken a lot of my attention lately. Raising and breeding chickens has been an immersive learning experience. I have followed my curiosity to learn about chicken breeding and genetics, animal behavior, carpentry (to build coops), business (selling and trading eggs) and many other areas of knowledge related to raising chickens. My passion has guided me to many new lessons, and is a great example of project-based learning. I'm starting here, because it is an example of the type ...