Oh, the Things that You'll Learn!!

  I started listening to podcasts to supplement the ongoing radio commercials on my daily commute to work; I readily tuned to a spiritual message, interview, or daily news. Using podcasts, I am engaged in the conversation topics and enjoy how easy it is to access information through live streaming to share, save, and transfer information to my portable device. Not only do I enjoy listening to podcasts in my downtime, but I surprisingly enjoyed creating my own podcast through the multimedia project assigned. I might be biased due to my communications degree, emphasizing electronic media but - I enjoy learning and teaching through technology.  Instructors have the power to connect content and creativity vibrantly; build assignments generate deeper research, analysis, and knowledge construction ( King & Cox, 2011). For some, podcasting might seem daunting if you use it as lecture webcasting, but podcasts can serve as a way to tap into different learning styles and modes for c...

  CONVERSATIONS WITH CATT EDACE 765: Adult Learners and Integrating Technology into Curriculum Welcome to Catt's Conversations an educational podcast to connect people to people and people to learning opportunities. Today we feature DeWanna Hamlin, Mrs. Hamlin currently serves as the Director of the Family Justice Center, Forsyth County, North Carolina, an evidence-based initiative providing co-located services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, child maltreatment, and human trafficking.   Ms. Hamlin has provided training for professional services providers across disciplines for more than 20 years, including early childhood education, law enforcement, victim services, health care, faith-based and youth-serving organizations. Mrs. Hamlin will  share with viewers her experience with intergrading technology, innovative ideas for future training, and how she has been creative with technology learning tools.

  Becoming Mindful with Wiki      This assignment was my first time creating a lesson plan that was over two hours, and the challenge itself incorporated critical thinking skills beyond the task of integrating a wiki into the curriculum. The past three years include teaching a teen self-awareness session and utilizing technology but not using an online collaborative writing tool. Constructive theorists believe that learning is a social process and that learning occurs through interactions (King & Cox, 2011), and technology can enhance the learning experiences. Wikis allow students to problem solve and construct their knowledge, so I decided to use wiki, blogging, and google drive. I wanted to warm the students up with a blog then use google drive because of the page editor's similarities to migrate to wikis. Using a wiki as the main collaborative tool and space, my mission was to gain inciteful practice, upload and collaborate on assignments, and the overall self...

To Wiki or Not to Wiki...   When I was obtaining my undergraduate degree, the only wiki I knew of was Wikipedia. I can hear my professors echoing "be mindful of using Wikipedia, "often questioning its content accuracy. However, in recent years wikis have been used in higher education to aid students in experiencing more in-depth knowledge by incorporating their own experiences into these new learning opportunities. (Chen et al., 2005) Like blogs and discussion boards, wikis are all asynchronous communication (West & West, 2009). They can be designed to share ideas providing feedback, and generate conversation around a particular topic.     There are advantages of utilizing wiki for teaching and learning. A significant appeal of Wikis is that collaborative content can be created, changed, and tracked easily. Users can quickly expand any page or site for discussion, posting assignments, and various collaborative projects. Wiki technology makes it easy to work on a ...

Welcome to my Blog! Millennial and Gen Z students receive most of their information through podcasts, blogs, and various forms of technology (MacPhail, 2019); as a student and entrepreneur, it is refreshing and rewarding to create digitally in an educational space. The use of blogging and discussion boards is not new to me, but the learning curve in blogging's rhythm is. I am learning that comprising of writing, reading, 'commenting in,' and 'commenting out' of blogs (Garcia,  Moizer , Wilkins, &  Haddoud , 2019) and discussion boards builds a unique community. Blogs and discussion boards' only notable difference is that blogs provide more range in public creativity and visually more stimulating. Simultaneously, blogging assignments potentially offer a final product that students can share on social media.      "Tell me a Smart Story: On Podcasts, Videos, and Websites as writing assignments" caught my attention as Theresa MacPhail wrote about the o...