Category: Education
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Learning Circles
Going to try a new approach to teaching – learning circles with online course. Going to take a while to organize but it’s a start!
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Public Speaking
To get over my fear of public speaking, I joined my high school debate team. I wasn’t a great debater but joining that club allowed me to get comfortable speaking in front of crowds. Still not great at smaller social gathering (that’s a work in progress), in front of an audience I’m okay. 3 things…
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Video School
I’m always on the look out for online tutorials that freely available. Vimeo’s Video School is good starting place for people looking for tips and explanation for most of the technical aspect of creating videos. From explaining different camera shots to how to storyboard to why pre-production is important, these short articles are written in…
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e-learning
One of the advantages of hosting my own website is being able to experiment with a variety of tools, specifically those available for free (or low-cost). Without an upfront cost, I tried Drupal. It was incredibly difficult to use without any training so I deleted it (also didn’t need content management system YET). After taking…
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Getting Organized
I’m currently updating how I organize my classes, workshops, and training sessions. For a while, I was trying to do everything digitally, and it worked well enough but now I’m looking into a hybrid system using notebooks and digital records. I don’t want to duplicate my work but it’s sometimes difficult to get to a…
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Taking Pictures
I’ve been reading through some of the articles on NPR’s Editoiral Training website and this one about taking better pictures with a smartphone really caught my attention. Then there’s one about open copyright, which was also really interesting. And telling me how create a visual story? While these articles don’t directly relate to digital storytelling they…
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Teaching Social Media
Okay, so what do I teach? I read articles predicting trends that discuss what skills are necessary for the 21st Century work force. In a standard class, with learners who have basic computer skills, I focus on the basic employment skills (using basic Office features, writing good email, using search engines effectively, understanding what “the…
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Realistic Goals
One of the most difficult things I find doing is balancing between everything I want to do and what I can realistically do. It’s easy to become overwhelmed. I know because it’s happened to me recently. So I’ve set out some guidelines for myself to keep the balance. Here’s the first Lists, lists, lists I’ve…
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Spring Break – tracking progress
With a week break from my usual routine, I’m taking this week to write a series of posts. There’s no theme, just thoughts I’ve been considering for a while. I’m an instructor in a couple of adult literacy program. Currently, my focus has been on numeracy (math). In my classes, there are usually 10-16 adults…
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Developing Workshops
I just finished a four-day digital storytelling working. These workshops take a lot out of me because it’s short days (six hours) but it seems like i’m consistently being pulled in every direction. I’ve been slowly coming up with a couple of guidelines to help me keep things under control. Set a maximum number of…