CLMOOC Digital Coloring Book Page

Getting involved in something like the CLMOOC make cycle is a little outside of my comfort zone. Though I may be enthusiastic about learning and using new technologies, I have never considered myself to be an artist. I'm not quick to think outside of the box and am much better with step-by-step direction. My favorite …

Wrapping Around to Digital Citizenship

I always appreciate the weeks in class that we focus on digital citizenship and digital literacies. This is what relates most specifically to my work with fifth graders and what I've focused on for my work with the students this year. I've found how important it is to foster a strong foundational understanding of digital …

Student Perceptions of Twitter

As I've been continuing to  use Twitter in the classroom, I've held conversations with my students about what Twitter meant to them. We've been discussing ways that writing is meaningful in their real life and ways that we can communicate with the world around us. In this blog post, I want to shed light on …

Snapchat Story

I love Snapchat. I really do. I saw that one of the Weekly Play options was a video using Snapchat as opposed to Vine. I have created Snapchat stories before, but hadn't thought about creating one for a unified purpose. The one I created this week doesn't have much of a meaningful purpose behind it. …

Youth Creativity

When reading the articles "Black Teens are Breaking the Internet and Seeing None of the Profits" and "Poor Meme, Rich Meme", I found myself thinking about my students and their own internet usage. As mentioned in the articles, black culture is widely expressed online and creativity is abundant and visible. However, the media they create …

Mediated Writing

Completing this mediated writing piece was a very unique experience that I feel I learned a lot from. As a writer, I found that my writing wasn't at all created to be merged with images. When it came time to find images that would work, I was really surprised at how difficult it was! I …

Making a Gif

This week I wanted to try a play that I've done before but honestly couldn't remember how to do correctly. After reading about the HPA , I thought about the lessons I've been teaching surrounding Harry Potter. I've been trying to figure out how to teach Harry Potter well, so I've been structuring it similarly …

Civic Engagement in Fifth Grade

Reading about the Harry Potter Alliance was really fascinating and inspiring for me. The Harry Potter series has always been influential in my life. I read the series about once a year and may or may not have multiple Harry Potter tattoos. This year, I did what I've wanted to do for years. I started …

Information Online

When reading Networked this week, I was thinking about many of the points they brought up. Some of which I agree with, others that left me wondering. The first point that the chapter mentioned was the idea of linking within digital text as opposed to the limited text features available in print media. I thought about …

Text to Music

This was the weirdest play I have done yet. The results were absolutely not what I expected. I found the idea in the collaborative "make bank" titled "Turn Text into Music". This page takes you to a music generator where you can input text and generate sheet music. You are given personal choice in the …