WEEK 8 THE POLITICS OF TEXT Golden Record Curation This assignment was the most challenging for me so far. Because I don’t have a musical background, I wasn’t too sure where to start. Only two of the record’s 27 musical tracks were familiar to me. I reflected a lot about what Tim Ferris had to […]
WEEK 7 LITERACY AND LITERACIES Mode-Blending Task: What’s in my bag? Stop-Motion Edition! I have always wanted to created a stop-motion video and this felt like a great opportunity to try it out. I used the app Stop Motion Studio to create this video. It was really user friendly and easy for me to figure out. Using […]
WEEK 6 THE BREAKOUT OF THE VISUAL An Emoji Story For this activity, I relied mostly on ideas and larger concepts of the film. I had just seen this film the other day so the plot was quite fresh in my mind which made the task easier and more difficult at the same time. All […]
WEEK 5 COMPUTER-BASED WRITING: EARLY HYPERTEXT THEORY My very first Twine: The Procrastinating Teacher The inspiration for this story came from some of the debacles I have faced in the last month. “June is always a tough month for teachers,” I remember my Mom sharing that with me my very first year teaching. She wasn’t […]
WEEK 4 THE MECHANIZATION OF WRITING Task 4: Potato Printing! This task took me back to art class. I decided to use my very favorite food as my word for this activity: bagel. Was there something particularly challenging in the process? Initially things got off to a solid start. I had watched the tutorial so […]
WEEK 3 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: WRITTEN LANGUAGE What effects has writing has on human thought processes? As Gnanadesikan (2011) discusses, writing was ultimately invented to help humans remember information. Because of this, thought processes were able to gain in complexity as individuals no longer had to hold everything inside their brains. They were able […]
WEEK 2 LANGUAGE AS TECHNOLOGY: SPOKEN LANGUAGE As a French immersion teacher, the hardest part of my job is getting my students to speak the their second language with one another. Because of this, I was really looking forward to Module 2. One of the things that Boroditsky (June 2017) discusses in her presentation is […]