The Haydn Hideaway

Hi readers! It has been a few weeks. I didn't mind having a small holiday from blogging. I really didn't do a ton - moved to my new apartment in Morden for my student teaching placement, and started student teaching. Almost as quickly as I started teaching, we were told that schools will be closing for preventing the spread of COVID-19. Needless to say, it's been a stressful few days trying to sort out what is going on with placement and with my upcoming job in Gillam. Thankfully, we have more than enough things to do while the students are away. My cooperating teacher has been excited to have the extra set of hands in making an escape room activity for the students, so that will be one thing we're working on, among other things. I'm hoping to get a lot of my specific planning done for my job in Gillam, now that I know my schedule. What do we do in the next couple days, is the bigger problem. My cooperating teacher and I have been brainstorming, trying to find...

I'm so glad I took the time after class to really edit my Final Project the way I wanted it to be. I figured, I had a rough version available if needed to present to the class today (i.e. everyone else had gone already) so I could  present if need be, but I really didn't want to. I learned the video editing program I had didn't allow me to edit the video the way I wanted - adding extra audio over the video files. So, after downloading a few too many video editing apps, HERE WE ARE! So yes, while technically late, this is a version of my final project that I am really happy with. I never used TikTok before making this, but I admit I really liked using it. It was fun to be creative! Thanks for reading.....and watching!

In this weeks blog post for my Internet for Educators course, I will be focusing on the presentation given to us by Matteo DiMuro , a high school math and computer science teacher from Brandon. His presentation focused on coding, but also had touched on flipped classroom at the beginning of his presentation. Flipped Classroom Before Matteo really got into his presentation, he asked how many of us were familiar with flipped classroom. I felt like I had a pretty good idea, but I didn't want to put my hand up in case I was confusing it with something else. Turns out I wasn't the only one, since very few people had their hands up. I knew it was student-led, but I couldn't quite remember the process of flipping a classroom.  Flipped classroom is when students consume and practice material outside of class time, so when students come to class they can be getting individual help from the teacher or working on a lab. By freeing up instruction time from lectures, more time ...