Reflections

This is the category to apply to your Weekly Reflection posts from the course.

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    Reflection # 6

    I had never considered annotations in any context outside of group projects for school or work. However, I am someone who has always been interested in meme-ology which very much seems to coincide with how Dr. Remi Kalir speaks about annotation. Memes dating all the way back to Philosoraptor have been community generated media connecting…

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    Reflection #4

    Cable Green‘s talk about Open Licensing and Open Educational Resources was particularly interesting to me once he started talking about open procurement. I work in procurement for a school district and I am very excited to present this idea to my district. I may try to reach out to Cable to see if he can…

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    Reflection #3

    I am surrounded by teachers. My mother was a kindergarten teacher for 30 years until “retiring” to a part-time elementary school librarian position who has her +15 (bonus teacher schooling but isn’t a Masters) that focused on technology in the classroom. My youngest sister is a high school social studies teacher. My partner is a…

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    Reflection #2

    I really and truly can’t tell you how I feel about Inquiry based learning. I LOVE learning new things but I can never keep myself on task. You would think traditional learning would help this but I HATE being told what to do and doing things on other people’s timelines. Unless they tell me EXACTLY…

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    Reflection #1

    In the summer of 1996, between grades four and five, I attend a week long “Sports and Computers” day camp at my elementary school. There I learned how to properly prompt Ask Jeeves to get the best possible results from an internet search engine. I credit this camp, put on by my amazing elementary school…