Author: Benny Monty
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5: Community support makes the world go ’round
Image Description: A pastel purple background. Black font that says “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” By Ronald Reagan Reporting back about the progress of the tiny art library and there is tons of good stuff to share! In finding an old cabinet off of Facebook Marketplace to use as the main…
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Reflectionnnnnnnnn #4: Graphic Creation
In today’s class we played around using with app ChatterPix Kids, which is a way to make images come to life! You simply need to create a character, take a photo of your character, and then using the app it turns that character into a talking or singing character using your own voice. We’ll be…
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Reflection…3?! Stop Motion Animation
Time sure is flying by, but also, that was the longest September of my life?? Anyways! We’ve been assigned a creative media presentation that we must organize in a group and present to the class in mid-November. Add it to the to-do list 🤯 That’s okay, we always get through it, don’t we? Don’t we….?…
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4: Unexpected Advancements in the Building Process
So! Despite doing much research on how to build my own little community art gallery, I ended up finding a perfect little wooden cabinet on Facebook Marketplace for $20 that I picked up in Kimberley, BC from a very friendly person who had intended to use it for propagating plant cuttings, but just never got…
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3: Building plans and ideas for my free little art gallery
And we’re back! Here I will be documenting and expanding my process of researching, exploring, planning, and building my free little art gallery to then install in front of my house to see how the community engages with it. I’m hoping that along the way I’ll be able to find ways to implement creative interactive…
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Wowza, Reflection #2: Epic Books and Trouble with Screencasting
As a part of our second class of Technology in the EKTEP program, we learned how to make screencasts, so I decided to make a screencast of an online book resource called Epic! Books. This step-by-step guide will walk you through how to navigate finding a book to read from an endless library of kids…
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2: Exploring hands-on, community-based projects
Inspired by little libraries that have been popping up in towns everywhere, where community members are encouraged to take a book and leave a book, creating a free little library for those passing by. I love these little libraries mostly because they put a smile on my face amongst the chaos of life. I also…
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Weekly Reflection #1: High Tech High
Reflections from the “Most Likely to Succeed” film In our Technology and Innovation class we were asked to watch “Most Likely to Succeed“, a 2015 documentary by Greg Whitely. The documentary features a high school in San Diego, California called High Tech High, that challenges our perceptions of what we’ve been told schooling should be,…
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Utilizing Social Media for Professional Development
For my Free Inquiry Project this semester, I will be doing something… anything? Tune in to find out what! Words that are floating around in my head are: I’d just love to find a way to get students involved in contributing to community, whether that be the classroom community, the school community, their town’s community,…