Monday, 31 October 2016

Literacy: Reading

By    10/31/2016 11:24:00 am // No comments
I’m a Nerd and so is my Husband As a wedding present, my husband and I were given the recent installment to the iconic Harry Potter series, The Cursed Child, a screenplay inspired from the original story. Before school, we decided to wait to buy and read it because we were focused on the wedding,...

Saturday, 29 October 2016

A Tale of Two Educations

By    10/29/2016 08:00:00 pm // 1 comment
Little Bit About Me Growing up, I was fortunate enough to experience two types of education. I went to a school like every other kid and was formally taught my ABC’s and numbers, but during kindergarten, I also began piano lessons, where I learnt my do-re-mi’s and how to read music. I eventually...

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Online Math Games: Worksheets Playing Dress Up?

By    10/27/2016 07:00:00 pm // No comments
Meet my husband, J. MacKenzie, Future Game Designer My husband is currently in his second year studying video game development, though he had a few years of learning under his belt from another school. He dropped out of his first experience after tragedy struck and his mother had a stroke....

Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Genius Hour Ted Talk

By    10/25/2016 12:18:00 am // No comments
Creating a Ted Talk was fantastic way to reflect on my process to creating a singing lesson YouTube channel. At first, I felt awkward and didn't really know what to say, and then I had the opposite issue. I found it challenging to cut it down what I had recorded to keep it under time (which I didn't succeed in, it is a little longer than required), but by explaining my processes, my challenges...

Genius Hour Trailer

By    10/25/2016 12:17:00 am // No comments
This is the trailer for my genius hour project to create a singing lesson YouTube channel. I had a lot of fun making story boards for planning out how I wanted it to look. I compiled a lot of my lesson videos, most of which is bloopers in this trailer, into short 1 minute trailer. It was quite the task to find music that built the motivation up in an inspiring way, and so I choose I Dreamed a...

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Genius Hour Project: Recording and Editing

By    10/22/2016 01:34:00 am // No comments
Recording and Editing Recording my lessons was frustrating. I spent a really long time mapping out my lesson plans and I have taught singing before, but without a student there for feedback or a confirmation that I am being clear enough, I was really self-conscience during the entire process. It also probably didn’t help that I could see myself while recording. It was a blessing and a curse. It was...

Friday, 21 October 2016

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Media Literacy: Movie Trailer Remix

By    10/13/2016 09:41:00 pm // No comments
My mother is finishing her GED, and only has her grade 12 English credit to finish before she is officially graduated from high school. Being close to fifty years old and been out of high school for more 30 years, I’m proud of her perseverance and desire to finally finish her education. One of her...

Tuesday, 11 October 2016

Thursday, 6 October 2016

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