Summary of Learning

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Course Prototyped!

Well, it’s finally come together. My course profile captures two modules set up in an environment that matches the technology I have available with my own educational philosophy. Having just read many early submission posts by my classmates, I was relieved to see many people had changes from their original plans. Obstacles came up, priorities

Discussion Boreds

This week’s prompt was super timely, as I have been having some discussion on Discord regarding student interaction in the past week. Specifically, I asked: Two suggestions I received were Padlet and YoTeach. Padlet is a tool I am fairly familiar with. I definitely like it, but my inclination has been to use it more

I’ve Got Your (Feed)Back!

Sharing modules with each other in person last night was an incredibly valuable experience. I was fortunate enough to be in a group with Jillian, Dylan, and Daniel, who all presented a wide variety of grade levels (from 1-12!) on a wide variety of LMS platforms (including Google Classroom, Google Sites, and Moodle). Going last

How Wise is NewsWise?

I was introduced to NewsWise at a professional development event called Democracy Bootcamp in 2019. Organized by CIVIX, perhaps best known for their Student Vote initiative, the project focused on “developing effective information skills.” I was really impressed with the materials (In fact, I still have everything I received), but haven’t had a chance to

Dragging Media Studies into the 21st Century

This year, after an absence of 2 or 3 years and a school focus on core classes, I was excited to see our school again offering Media Studies 20 as an elective. It is a course I have taught three times previously, but never in a way that fully embraced technology like I have wanted

Being Thrown into the Blender

Trigger Warning: some teachers may have traumatic memories of online learning rekindled in this post. Today I’d like to speak about the 2020-2021 school year. Specifically the experiment myself and my colleagues have been part of since the start of the school year, and something high school teachers across the province have increasingly been switching

Back at it Again!

I’m happy to dust off my old blog for the purposes of my newest master’s course, EC&I 834: Designing for Online and Blended Learning. Talk about a relevant course to be taking right now! So for those who don’t know me, my name is Riley Sharp, and I am a Gr. 10-12 History and ELA