In my day-to-day life I regularly use four main apps. These apps are Text Messages, Tiktok, Disney+ and Notability. On a normal day, I can guarantee I am opening these apps multiple times for various reasons. Text Messages are my daily communication form. My family and friends are mostly back home, in Saskatoon so communicating online is a big part of my life and social activities. Tiktok is a distracting app for me, I can never seem to ignore it. Once I get on Tiktok, I can’t get off it. Scrolling is so addicting despite me knowing I should do something more productive. In fact, every social media tends to distract me with videos. I often use the “three more videos” or the “in five minutes” strategy to convince myself to get off the distracting apps, which works most of the time. Notabilitiy is my go-to app for notetaking and school related things. I bring my iPad with me every day to take notes for every one of my classes. I like this app because it keeps everything all in one place, but still organized. It allows me to have subjects and folders, creating subcategories for anything I need. I also like to use Quizlet and URCourses for organization relating to school. Disney+ is a weird one for me. Sometimes I am using it for leisure, and to relax for the night, but most of the time I have it running on my favorite show in the background of everything I do. And I mean, EVERYTHING. I think the tv helps me fill the silence of Regina in comparison to how I have always lived (in a packed, busy house). The only time I turn it off is when I am asleep or out of the house. Overall, I think technology is beneficial to the learning experience, but it has its' own distractions.
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This week for my learning project, I mainly focussed on starting my project. I was planning on focussing on learning how to read patterns, but this video is beneficial to both goals. The video by 365DayofDana shows me what to do in a clear video, but also has the pattern listed at the top of the video. I watched the video one time and have not been back to watching it. I wrote down the patterns listed on the screen, and when I forget what to do, I am now able to look at the note and remember what it means I like this video specifically because it is very clear. I find that a lot of crochet projects on YouTube or Tiktok are extremely quick, without explaining anything to the audience and often not showing the work they are doing, which is extremely unhelpful. I also like that she explains the process while she is doing it, it not JUST the visual aspect. She also explains some things multiple times, which is very uncommon in the videos I have seen. Plus, she gives me the tools to do it on my own. She shows how to counts the stitches properly, during and after the steps are done so I am able to look at my own work and be sure that I didn’t miss anything! Overall, I liked the video style but I am also aware that not all videos are as educational as this one has been. This week I was able to make 9 circles for the blanket, after messing up multiple times in the beginning, due to my own miscalculations on sizing (not related to the video). Next week I will continue working on the blanket and try some new online sources! Hi there! My name is Paige Belcourt. I am in my first year of my Education Degree as well as the certificate in Inclusive Education. I am in the secondary education program, and my major is in mathematics and my minor is in French. I am studying at the University of Regina, but I am from Aberdeen, Saskatchewan and visit my family there often. Although I have always lived in small towns, I have always gone to inner-city schools in Saskatoon. Growing up, I was in advanced programs, which helped grow my love for learning and taught me a lot about my own learning style and passions. I graduated high school in 2021, after two years of online school. I decided to take 2 years off to evaluate what I would like to do with my life as COVID-19 was still heavily influencing my area, and online learning was not for me. Throughout my younger years I was in classrooms that had SMART boards, laptops, and were allowed our phones and tablets. My program was often one of the first to try new technology in my area. This meant we got to learn a lot more about technologies in educational spaces in comparison to others in our area. I tend to use YouTube or other videos for my own personal learning, as I find it more engaging than reading things online. Last semester, during my ECS 101 class, I really enjoyed Shelley Moores videos as they helped me understand complex concepts in simple ways. The combination of passionate voices and visuals really helps me engage in the materials, rather than reading an article in my own head. I enjoy blogging quite a bit and I am excited to start blogging about things I am passionate about. I have experience with blogs in my younger years, so I know a little bit about how to do things on the website portion of it all, but I am not the best at conveying my messages through text. I am not very interested in posting on social media; I always seem to forget that I can post my own things. I do enjoy the idea of sharing, because I like to talk about my passions! I am very excited to continue my educational journey through this course and others! For my learning project I am going to be learning more about crochet. Specifically, I want to learn how to read crochet patterns and learn new stitches to create more of a variety in the projects I create. My interest in crochet started when I was young, about 7 or 8 years old. My grandmother introduced me and my siblings to crochet to keep our hands busy without making a mess. My sister and I quickly became obsessed with crochet and did it every chance we got. Throughout my life I have always continued to crochet and have learned a little to improve my skills but lacked time to improve significantly. Currently, I can make simple projects when I follow a video-tutorial, however videos are not always available. I am also very limited in my range of stitches as I only know three; the single crochet, double crochet, and half double crochet. Within this range I have made a couple toques, one blanket and a couple of small items for decoration. I am hoping with learning these new skills, I will be able to create my own ideas and translate them into crochet without relying on other peoples’ skills to do so. By the end of this project, I am hoping to be finished at least 1 crochet baby blanket to improve my skills. The blanket is inspired by this this blanket by 365DaysOfDana on YouTube This blanket has a lot of creativity in the pattern, and lots of opportunity to learn new things so I think this will be a good show of what I am able to learn!. I would also like to create something based on my knowledge of being able to read patterns, so I would like to create a decorative item from the pattern only. I would like to finish these two items for this project and I am excited to start the process! My plan is to learn how to read the patterns slowly through the first two weeks, and by the third week I will be able to read patterns and create designs instead of watching someone else do it. By the fourth week I would like to start a project by following the pattern only, so that I have ample time to do both projects in the semester! For the blanket, I want to make about three granny-squares each week, so I have ample time to finish the baby blanket. I believe once I start getting into the habit and understanding the stitches more, I will be able to accomplish this task quickly! To do this, I will be utilizing YouTube to teach me new stitches and the abbreviations for the stitches. I will also be using Crochet Ville to help inspire me for new projects and read about how to fix problems I may come across. I am excited to start learning more about crochet! |
AuthorMy name is Paige Belcourt and I am currently a student a the University of Regina. I am working towards a degree in Secondary Mathematics Education with a minor in French, as well as a certificate in inclusive Education. Archives
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