Final Project in Motion

So with my final project, if anyone is still reading this, I have been asked to offer the videos to a school that I taught their staff.

Many of you probably heard about the tragic car accident outside of Gravelbourg and Kincaid. Well I have previously taught teachers from around there, and they are wanting to start reviewing First Aid/ CPR at every staff meeting because of the need for it out there. (The closest hospital is very far away) So I have sent them the links.

How great is that! (not the accidents, but the use of my project)

I have also sent the links to St. John Ambulance for them to use as they please.

Final Project!!! St. John Ambulance Tutorial videos!!

Emergency Scene Management Tutorial



Severe Bleeding Tutorial



Adult Choking Tutorial




CPR tutorial

Last Week of Classes

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! is anyone else getting excited for summer?? Of course for me it is a bit more scary than it is exciting.. or maybe both. I officially have 3 days left of classes in my university career!

I hope that everyone is getting their final touches on assignments done, and that you all have a great week! See you in class Wednesday!!

Self-Evaluation/ Reflections on Social Learning and Mentorship

I figure the best way to go about this would be to do it in point form according to Assessment.



Social Learning.

- I have slotted this as 10% of my final mark.
- I participated in the Eluminate Sessions quite a bit.
- I have provided opportunities on my blog for social learning to take place, along with challenge questions to others, and questions that I am having about tech tasks or other activities of my interest
- I have responded as quickly as possible to comments on my blog, so that we can have a type of conversation via the blog
- I have commented on others blogs, I attempt to do so once or twice a week.

- I believe that a good mark for me in this section would be possibly an 7.5/10. I put quite a bit forth for this section, however I could have done more. I found it difficult with my other classes to contribute all of the time, for that I apologize.

Mentorship.

- I have slotted this as 10% of my mark as well.
- I had a lot of difficulties with this mentorship. My computer didnt work for the longest time, I had to get a new one, and then I couldn't get onto Mr. Harbecks blogs.
-Either way, my communication with Chris was there, via email.
- I challenged Mr. H's Classes with a math problem, and kept up to date on what it was that they were discussing. It is very interesting how some of the content I am covering in some of my classes or that I have worked with in my internship relate to what these students are doing.

- Colleen's Class is a different story.
- There I have not had a bunch of communication. Now I do not know if it is my computer or the programming, but I was having trouble getting into her links as well. Unfortunately, I never got responses back from Colleen on how to fix this, so I have looked at some of the links that she has sent on the evaluation, but I was not able to reply back.

- I believe, that my effort was there, however, I did not get much done with Colleen's class. I do not know how to grade myself on that, but I would hope that I would get above a 6/10.


For those of you who are wondering how I put the rest of my grades, they are 20% for the Blog, 30% for weekly Assignments, and 30% for my Final Project.

Major Project Update

Today Jenelle and I worked on our final project, and I am glad to say that we are almost done! All we have to do is put the four tutorial clips on the internet. Hopefully you will all be blessed with them soon.

It was very interesting creating these videos, for those of you who have been following along, we had to go through many different steps to get to this point. There was getting permission from the St. John Ambulance Head office (for the copyrites) CHECK! There was getting volunteers for the filming, CHECK! Then there was the filming itself, CHECK! and now the editing and putting in the voice for the tutorials, which now has is a CHECK!

We decided to go with four tutorials, Emergency Scene Management, Choking, CPR, and Severe Bleeds.

We worked on a Mac, and the clipping was quite easy as well as putting the voice through. I hope you all enjoy what is yet to come.

Done!

I am done my essay!! Well my first draft. Luckily, my prof said I could bring it in and he would go through it with me before i have to hand it in. I shall do that tomorrow.

That is all I had to say about this.

Procrastination

Ok,

For any of you out there that write a lot of essays please help me out. I just can't seem to get motivated to write this 5000 word essay on Pythagorean's Theorem. I have done absolutely everything else possibly imaginable. Any suggestions???


Oh ya, I also am going to add some math youtube links for you guys to watch. Just in case you are interested in what I do to procrastinate. HAHA I am such a nerd!!

Can't Graphy This
What You Know About Math

Enjoy!

Major Project Update

The filming is done!

Filming went great this morning. We had 4 volunteers and we walked through 5 different sets. Emergency Scene Management, Choking, CPR, Severe Bleeding, and Slings.

I did not really have much guidelines for the volunteers to follow, since all of them are trained First Responders, however the filming went well anyways. 5 different sets, a couple times through each and done in just over an hour. Pretty good!

Jenelle and I will work on the clips and putting in instructions later this week.

ECMP 355

In class today we were presented with the following questions prompted by Jackie and Dani's comments on their blogs.
I feel as though I should comment on this topic because I do feel strongly about how this class is moving forward.

First off, my situation. I am in my fourth year and taking six classes, I have experience taking a class through Athabasca.

1.Does the fact that one student sees the nature of online learning less social than the other simply a personality issue or is there something about the experience?
- I feel that everyone takes something different from each experience. I may not grasp a lot of content from this class because it is a lot to work with, but look! I can make a blog! It is up to everyone what they take out of the online learning what they can. This is the same with an online class and one that is face to face.

2. How do we get support? How do you get help in other course?
- I find that we get great support in this class. Dean, I am sorry for emailing you ALL the time! haha. I do find it difficult sometimes because I do not know how to accurately describe my issues without showing what is wrong. This is quite difficult for me because I am new to all this technology stuff.

There were two other questions, but I liked these questions.

As someone who is new to technology, I found this course had TOO much to do. I realise that that there is so much content that we need to cover in the semester, however I had a lot of issues working with it. I think everything went by real fast, and I do not completely comprehend all the topics. I find this a negative about the class.

Podcasts

ASHA
Podcast 11: Justin Roberts promotes hearing health in children 11:29 29/08/2008 Interviews with people making news in the professions of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Justin Robers promotes the safety of personal audio devices.

I think that this is very important, by showing that there are "cool" people that are concerned about those with hearing and speech communication problems. This has become a topic of interest to me through my EPSY class on communication disorders; a very interesting topic, very broad.


Podcast 13: The Value of Early Intervention for Late Talking Children 12:42 14/10/2008 Speech-language pathologist Rhea Paul and child psychologist Leslie Rescorla discuss recent research on the persistence of language weaknesses at age 17 years in late talking children. Principles of early intervention from ASHA’s recent policy documents are highlighted.

This is my educational podcast. Leslie talks about how students who are slow to talk, sometime will not need help with a language disorder, just maybe different language skills than those who did not have issues with language development at an early age. Very interesting podcast from ASHA.

Challenge!!!

Hey Everyone!!

Ok, so I came up with a brilliant idea for my mentoring and I challenged them with a math question. They just finished covering Pythagorean Theorem, and I came across this question in one of my math classes so I figured I would see if they could get it. I also figured, hey why not challenge you guys!!! Let's see who gets this first the high school students or the university ones!!! Good Luck!!!

The question is: The perimeter of an isosceles triangle {2 sides are equal and the two angles at the base are equal} ABC with AB=BC is 128 inches. The altitude {height of the triangle which is perpendicular (90 degree angle) to the base ( and in the case of an isosceles triangle, hits at the midpoint of the base)} BD is 48 inches. What is the area of the triangle??

Major Project Update

Filming Begins and Volunteers have been rounded up!!!

9:00 Friday March 20th, we will begin filming at St. John Ambulance in Regina. This proves to be an interesting weekend.

Also, Lucky for me, Jenelle Kresek has decided to join me and help out with the project.

So check out for further postings

Priceless

LOOK!!! I DID IT!!! Here is my priceless tech task! YAY! I never thought I would figure out how to put it up here!!

Tech Task #12

The video I picked for this Tech Task was Garth Brooks "Standing Outside the Fire". Now I realise that this specific video does not have the best picture, however I was having difficulties finding another on youtube that was better.

This video uses many different clips and camera angles put together to tell a story. It is one of those pictures you must see for yourself to believe the power that it can tell. I get tears in my eyes every time I watch it.

My Google Map

I am hoping that this is what was wanted.

My google map is focused in Saskatoon SK. The points of interest that I have gathered are grocery stores and schools, as well as asian food places because they are my favourite haha. So you can tell what is important to me right now. I would like to get a job in Saskatoon teaching someday, so these are the types of things I would be interested in finding.



ok, I am not sure why the link does not work properly. The link brings you to the map I have, but does not include what I had put as my markers and such. Is that what it is supposed to do? I am quite confused.

Portfolio

Ok, So I am in the midst of creating a portfolio for my job applications and I only have one part left. The Philosophy of Education part. Now I know that the improper response is.. "you live, you learn, you die" , but this is hard!

There are so many different ways to think about education and different angles to take when looking at education. So as you can see I am confused as to what I should write. I have been spending so much time on this it is not even funny.

No worries though Dean, I will get the Tech Tasks done as soon as I can. Sorry, they have kind of taken a bit of a back burner to my interviews and job searching. This weekend I promise!

Major Project Update

I have just talked to my contact from St John Amulance, and I am getting quite excited about this project. We are planning on getting in a couple volunteers from the program to shoot the videos with. YAY!

The only thing is that I need a video camera. Can anyone tell me how to get one from the AV place at the university? and where exactly is this wonderful world of video cameras?

HAHA, I am hoping to do the filming either this weekend or next. That way I can have everything done by the due date.

I also signed up for a youtube account, I am going to be putting the tutorial videos on there. It was easier than I thought it would be which is great because I am completely curfluffled right now about everything in my life. Things need to go in slow mo for me! haha

The sections that I have decided to do so far are Emergency Scene Management {ESM}, Choking, Adult Cardiopulmonary Emergencies {CPR}, and Severe Bleeding. I figure that I will do five of them and leave the fifth one open to the volunteers ideas.

This should be great fun! Wish me luck!

If you would like to know a little bit more about St. John Ambulance {like where it came from and what it stands for} please take a look at this link.

My lovely computer...

You know how when your tv goes into that "blizzard" state??? Well at this very moment my computer is doing that for me! Only in very pretty colours! What a wonderful gift! However, I talked to Staples today and my new one should be ready tomorrow. So I will pick that one up, hope it doesnt crash in three days! and maybe catch up on all of my computer assignments for this class. I am thinking about really trashing this computer if anyone wants to join me. I was going to give it to my mom because at the time it wasn't this bad and I figured she really doesn't use computers as much as I do. But now I think NOT! Sorry mom! but this thing has got to go!

job hunt update

Hey everyone, I just got an email saying that I have an interview with Prairie Valley School Division... YAY!!!



ok, so I am going to try this video thing. Here is my favourite youtube video right now. It's pretty great! It is called serious baby.. HAHA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ALIL7T764

if anyone can tell me how to put the video right on here and not just the link that would be great.

Tech Task 10

HAHA these are the four pictures that I would use to represent and "sell"myself.

The first is a picture of a hedgehoge wanting a hug, this is me because I believe in respecting everyone and gving everyone a fair chance to accomplish what they want in life. this may be why I am a Special Needs minor.

The second picture is of a man freaking out! Notice the computer in the picture? haha. No, I believe that a person is under their own control and that you do not need to "sweat the small stuff", if there is nothing you can do about it you must realise that life goes on. This is especially my modo for this week, for those of you who have read my last post.

The third pic is of a girl playing softball. Basically this represents how I like to stay active, whether this be physically, mentally, or emotionally. I believe fully in keeping active and having fun.

The fourth and last picture is a bit more personal. This picture is of holding hands and the words mother, daughter, sister, and friend. This is me. My family and friends mean the world to me and I would do anything for them. {No I am not physically a mother, however I do have a VERY cute cate named Bacardi... I would post a picture, but we will save that till I have a computer of my own with them on it. haha}

Here is my igoogle page from Tech Task #4. Apparently I was supposed to post this one and not my google reader, woops!

You may notice I have my rss feeds on the left and a youtube easy access on the right. There are also many other applications lower down, too bad you couldn't see them all. The battleship application in the middle there really helps me to procrastinate. HAHA. I should probably remove it, but it is SO much fun!

Spring "Break"

Hey Everyone,

Sorry that I have not written on here over the break at all. I had a week from HELL! Acutally the week was not that bad, it was just those little things that all went wrong. HAHA. First off I would like to begin with my computer situation. On the Wednesday before the break, Feb. 11th, I purchased myself a new computer because my other one was not doing that good. That all went hunky dory for a while. That Saturday, however, my computer decided that it did not want to turn on!!! I was at home for the week so I did not have access to all of my information {because all of my passwords and such were on my computer} so that was not fun at all. Way to go Toshiba! So I finally got that back in on Monday here and they are going to give me a brand new one, until then I am without so I am using the university's. On top of all that, in the mix up of trying to transfer my information from one computer the other and then everything dying on me, I loss ALL of my information from the university for the last four years! That means, EVERY project, every assignment, every little bitty detail that I wanted to save. Somehow I think I clicked on cut instead of copy off of my USB port thinger and it is all gone! ARGH!! Along with that stuff I have also lost my information for my resumes {which is quite important right now for summer jobs as well as applying for teaching jobs}, my St. John Instructor stuff and taxes information {EEK! thank God I have hard copies of that}, as well as many other important pieces of information. I got my mom to send my old computer back up to Regina in hopes that I will be able to regain some of that information.

Now that all that computer crap is done and over with, I taught 3 First Aid/CPR courses over our spring "break" HAHA.. what a nice break. Needless to say I did not get as much homework done as I had wanted to, especially since I did not have my computer and such.

All in all, the "break" is done, and I can get back to doing what I do best. Procrastinating and then freaking out because my assignments are due.

I would post pictures on here of my break, however, I don't have any! Because of that darn computer thing. So I hope you enjoy this picture. I know I sure do!

I hope everyone else's breaks were great!

Me and my Mom!!

Hello everybody. Just thought I would write a little on here today. I am hanging out with my mom, back home. She is pretty great! Right now I am showing her all about our ECMP 355 class. I think that she is enjoying all that I am learning about blogs, delicious, google accounts. She especially loves the slide that I made for our Priceless assignment. I am still trying to figure out how to get sounds on it then I will post it all for you to see! I hope you all have a wonderful break! I know I will!

Major Project Update

Today I went down to St. John Ambulance to talk with the head of the Sask. division. If you have not read my other post on my project, I am doing tutorial videos for St. John Ambulace. I already have copy rite permission from the national office, and now I have to go through some other hoops that St. John has for marketing. I am hoping to get a video camera over the break and video tape some of the courses I am doing, as well as get other instructors and volunteers from St. John to do some of the tutorials as well. I think that this should be great fun and quite useful, not only for myself but also for St. John and the general public. I am hoping that after getting these videos up on the internet the general public will be able to go to the videos as a refresher for their Standard First Aid/CPR/AED refresher.

Just a random note about my week

Yesterday was my last EPSY 328 class, however I still have a bunch of homework assignments in the class. It is nice because now I do not have to attend 6 classes weekly, which was kind of difficult. Hopefully after I am done the assignments my homework load will go down. HAHA who am I kidding I am still taking 5 classes AND looking for jobs! Thank you Tara and Nadine for the wonderful class!

Talking about jobs, here is an update for all of you. I was offered a position in Peace River {Northern BC} but I am going to be turning it down, much too far. I also, recieved notice of a position for Calgary Catholic but I am not really a big city person so I don't think I will go there as well. Hopefully somewhere nearby has an opening. I am applying almost as we speak to PrairieValley and PA Seperate. HEY DEAN!! put in a good word for me at Prairie South! haha.

I went to see the movie "He's just not that into you" last night! Even though my friend and I had to stand in line for approximately half an hour to get tickets, we managed to get ok seats {in the front area of the galaxy theatre... you all know where I am talking about}. Even after all that, the movie was AMAZING! I reccoment everyone go and see it! Very entertaining. {Just as good as the book!} Hopefully up next will be Underworld: Rise of the Lycans!

Contacting for Mentorship

I am actually quite excited about this mentorship assignment. The two classes that I have chosen to work in are with Chris Harbeck {in Winnipeg} and Sophie Rosso {in Moose Jaw}. Both of which are Math classes, so I am hoping that I can help out quite a bit with those.

I have just contacted both of them, and I'm waiting for a reply. How suspenseful! .. I will keep you all posted.

K12 Online Conference

"Never Too Young" Presentation by Sharon Betts

This presentation was put on the web for the K12 Online Conference.

Sharon focus' on how the early year teachers and classroom teachers are sometimes forgotten about when it comes to technology in the classroom. She discusses some forms of tecnhology that the teachers can use in the classroom just off the web; voicethread, dipity, and blogging.


I found this clip very educational, because it is true that not everyone has access all the time to the technology provided to others. This also is true with some schools in rural areas due to lack of funding or access; however, there are more and more rural schools who are recieving this technology. It is nice to see that there are other options out there that just need computer access.

If you would like to read more on Sharon Betts you can on her blog or on her biography site.

TED Talks- "take two" or second video

Joe DiRisi hunts the next killer virus


Joe DiRisi is a Biochemist, and in this clip he talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses { and treat the illnesses they cause}using DNA. Maybe a modern day Dr. Gregory House MD. { HAHA a little insight to my life}.

Things covered in this clip:
- complexity and evolving viruses
- balance of ultra conservation
- wide spectrum of virus'
- How viruses evolve
-How to create a DNA ray machine... {HAHA}
- How to identfy some viruses
- experiment on respiratory colds

I found this clip VERY interesting. It is amazing how much people know about these little things {viruses}.
Joe was quite funny while talking about serious content.


If you would like to learn more about Joe, please feel free to click on this Link.

TED talks {Technology, Entertainment, and Design}

Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing


"Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found art, urban patterns -- this slideshow will open your eyes to the world around you." (from the site)

Forbes shows a very interesting take on different designs around the world and the different meanings they have to different people.

I hope this is what Dean wants. Welcome everyone to a pic of my Google Reader!!!! On this document I have {if you look to the bottom left} my subscriptions to all of my classmates, the 455 students, as well as other blogs. Also on the page, is some of the updates from those blogs. YAY!! As for widgets {part of the assignment} I couldn't really find any, but I did add Google Reader to my igoogle account. Which is great because I can access it without signing into google reader { I have also made my igoogle my homepage}.

I find this Google Reader VERY useful! Not only does it keep you networked with your friends but can be used productively in the classroom as well. Let's start with inclusive education; the gifted learner. Having specific sites subscribed to on a google reader account would allow that student to keep in contact with those who are not in the school to further their interest and learning. How about the average student? With subscribing to different blogs your students can create their own network of aquaintences. The things that your students could learn from others around the world. Plus it is practical. Why read the stories in the news, or other resources, when they can be reading on topics that are of interest to them?

There are many different applications of Google Reader and I would love to learn more.

Education Career Expo

Hello Everyone,

Just thought I would tell you all about my busy weekend and then concluding it by talking about today.

Today, was the Education Career Expo. For those of you who do not know what the Education Career Expo is, a chance for the students { and other certified teachers } to have a kind of "meet and greet" with a wide variety of school divisions and to drop of resumes and such. Very intimidating!

So, I spent the majority of my weekend getting ready for this. I went back to my home town and got some interview experience with my high school principal, {Barb, if you are reading this... I OWE YOU BIG!!!} as well, my mom helped me with my resume and working through other sections of my applications. WOW what a load! { THANK YOU MOM!!}

However, all of the hard work panned out. I do believe that today at the Edcation Career Expo went well. I got two interviews out of it, as well as I have learned an imense amount about each of the school divisions that I was interested in.

I will keep you posted.

Google For Educators- my synapsis

Hello Everyone,

One of our tasks from class today was to go through Google For Educators, reviewing how I have used it and the potential I see in using it in the class.

Unfortunatly, I have not used this site before in the classroom. I did not even know that it existed.

After looking at the site, however, I have found that it posesses many different applications that can be used in the classroom.

One of my favourite parts of this site, that I am going to talk about in this blog, is the multitudes of links to help incorporate the media and what is going on in the world today into the classroom. You can find these links amoung others under the "projects and news archives".

There are also sites for classroom materials {such as posters}. I find this useful.

Also, the fact that the contents of the page has been monitored so that the students will be responsible on the sites.

Survey

Hey Everyone,

This is my survey for Jan 21st 09 class!

ECMP 355 Major Project Begun

To all of those who are reading my blog, I have BIG news.

For those of you who do not know, I teach First Aid/ CPR/ AED through St. John Ambulance. Now, the big news!

For ECMP 355 we have a major project, one of which can be video tutorials. I decided to do mine on First Aid/ CPR. The only problem with this would be the copy rites etc. from St. John Ambulance themselves. I emailed them my project proposition, and..... THEY LOVED IT! I still need to tell them more, but I got to approval to propose it as my class project! This is SO exciting! I believe that they are even interested in using this site {providing it is any good} for their programs! THIS IS AWESOME!!!!

My day in Space

... That is in the unknown computer world....

Today I have started my blog.

The assignment that is due tomorrow *cough cough {at least it is done on time} stated that I had to create different gadgets and fill out my blog. My first issue, what is a "gadget"? and where do I find it?? Thankfully, my friend Josh helped me out on this one otherwise I would have been lost. So I managed to click on buttons and somehow run into this thing called "gadget".

I do believe that I may use "gadget", now that I know where it is. There are some interesting different "gadgets" that caught my eye. However, for now I only put in the About Me gadget and one that helps people subscribe to my blog {if that is what people do to blogs}.

The second assignment {which was actually the first I just did it second because it seemed harder} was to subscribe to a multitude of different blogs. These blogs are created by the rest of my ECMP 355 class {HOLLA!!}, as well as the ECMP 455 class and a selection of other blogs of interest. So, where is this button to subscribe? I found it. But how is it that I use this button. I ended up figuring out that all I have to do is put the URL's from the blogs I want to subscribe to in it! HA! Didn't I feel silly after that!

I have come to the conclusion, after today, that this may not be as hard as I think. As long as I have people here to help me along with the steps {finding the buttons}. Hopefully I become a little more comfortable with this, as I feel that a blog would be quite useful in the classroom.

After all this, a good day! We will see about tomorrow.

Jan 14/09- My first blog EVER!!!

Hey There everyone, I am just sitting in ECOMP 355!! having a great time! I will write more later!