Thanks for your feedback! Audio files are a good idea, though I was operating under the assumption that each piece of media we created for our portfolio would be embedded within its own learning […]

Your ePortfolio is so well organized and put together, I really appreciate your design style and the way you use bands of colour to separate information, I think you also used this method in the […]

Thanks for your thorough feedback! I appreciate your feedback regarding interactive text. This would be a great way to integrate further resources into the learning activity for my students to explore. […]

First, I liked how you chose to integrate a more ‘personal’ style introduction for your portfolio. While I did not go with this approach, I appreciate the attention you gave to your […]

this is a good introduction to the PhET gas properties simulation. Your musical intro and outro have appropriate volume that matches your narration. You might want to remind people to watch at full […]

I would link the periodic table image to a […]

Thanks for the feedback, I just finished the audio recordings for my final ePortfolio submission–I wanted to make them better and do the whole reading, rather than just part of it, and I recorded in […]

I think you’ve got the hang of working with audacity here. I think your original recording didn’t really need any noise reduction but it’s good to try it out. Your combined audio file works well. […]

That’s a great idea! I actually have some doodle notes on the topic that I already use (as a bit of a filler activity when needed). Pairing it with the podcast would make it more meaningful.

Kayleigh

Thank you! I’ve learned from teaching that sometimes slowing down a bit goes a long way! Helps me to not trip over my words either. It isn’t often I find myself reading aloud from text! It definitely […]

Thank you! I feel like it was a bit of dumb luck. I lose focus too and would definitely accompany it with a transcript or a worksheet that students could complete as they listen. Anything to keep their […]

Thanks for sharing your recordings and transcript with us. I enjoyed your balanced approach to presenting your content to use. I felt that the pace of your reading was neither too fast nor […]

Thanks for the resource! I’ll definitely check it out. At the end of this exercise, I felt more confident producing audio media and I’m considering it now for my Portfolio submission. I’m sure her […]

Thank you for posting your raw audio data. For me it is always daunting to post raw material so way to go!

Brenna Gray Clarke our very own podcasting guru at TRU always states podcast notes/ […]

Thanks for your feedback! Students typically do choose an area where it would be common to find a taxi, but this is a specification I should include in the outline.

I had a student last year plan […]

Like Tiernan, I was thinking location within a metropolis for their taxi company. I’ve never driven taxi but known many that did (and was a courier in Vancouver for a few years). I keep thinking […]

Honestly, most of my students choose a place around the world–either their home country or a place they would like to visit. I have very few students choosing a local spot! Haha, who knows, perhaps […]

When determining the company’s location, do you expect most students to choose a local spot, or are they free to […]

Strange! It works for me. I’ll give it another look.

Kayleigh

I did find your description useful to visualize what the graphic looks like, it was also great to have the […]

This layout looks pretty good. I think the out of the box structure of different themes leave you with advantages and disadvantages. This Google Sites theme may have had an internal page navigation […]

Important for Grade 8 in general! They are a funny bunch. 😉 I love SMART criteria. I wish I found it when I was a young student…it would have helped!

Kayleigh

Great work! Your learning objectives are Specific and Measurable. I can easily see how these would be assessed. I’m assuming they are attainable and relevant? Will they have to do all 20 from […]

I really like your outcomes align so well to the SMART criteria (which you’ve clearly explained too). They will no doubt contribute to your students’ analytical skills as well as developing syn […]

Thank you for this post as it expresses concisely the very nature of the acronym POUR: perceivable, operability, understandability, and robust.

I agree with you that using “tabs” to navigate […]

Math is such an interesting subject, and I agree with you that these years are most important for establishing relevance and real-world connections! Something we do in the MYP is develop statements of […]

If I had a math teacher who created an accessible classroom, just as you’ve done, I feel as if I would have been more successful at the subject! For me, making experiences meaningful to each child […]

I enjoyed how you broke down the roles of the online instructor and provided a clear definition of it. Teachers wear many different hats and we sometimes forget what they each do. I chose to […]

Thank you! I agree that gamification is super helpful. We have access to a program called Mathletics which offers course packages aligned with provincial curriculum. I can easily assign practice tasks […]

I definitely agree–even in-person courses benefit and suffer in a similar way. I’ve learned not to put due dates directly on the task sheet, but to put it on our LMS instead, because I WILL forget […]

Excellent use of UDL principles in your context! I am not a math person, but I have always considered gamification a potential avenue to make math more accessible and add to the UDL principles of […]

An online course does need to be prepared in advance and if you let an inconsistency or error in, you will have to answer each student individually. […]

Wow! I’m happy to have left such an impression! I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself well-rounded, more like easily distracted! When I find a new interest I tend to jump off the deep end. This […]

Prioritizing relationships is important–I’m sure your students must really appreciate the time you take to check in with them all (at least if not now, then when they are older 🙂). Online le […]

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