Before reading week, I had a desire to try drawing heads and faces, and maybe make some attempts at body poses and postures. However, right at the start of reading week my family and I caught COVID and being sick completely killed my desire to do anything let alone practice drawing. I got better around
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Staying Connected in a Disconnected World: My Experience With Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship is an important part of modern society. We spend most of our day online and digital platforms are responsible for a large part of how we obtain and share information. With that being said there is some learning that needs to be done to navigate this sphere, safely, efficiently, and effectively. When I […]
Continue readingMy Experience With Cyber Safety In School
My first introduction to a personal computer and access to the internet in the school environment came when I was around grade 5, when I was provided with my own personal laptop to use for school work. While I don’t remember any specific method or technique being used to teach me to be safe on
Continue readingLearning New Woodworking Tips With TikTok
For this week’s learning project, I was unfortunately limited in time due to various other commitments. So I was unable to physically create something, however, I took this time instead to try out a new learning strategy. TikTok! This is a platform where content creators upload videos similar to YouTube, however, TikTok’s focus is primarily […]
Continue readingPart 6: BREAKING NEWS 🚨
╭────────────────────────────────»»❀❀❀««────────────────────────────────╮ “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” Danny Kaye ╰────────────────────────────────»»❀❀❀««────────────────────────────────╯ Well everyone, Today marks a day in history for my learning project. On March 5th at 12:05 AM, I received my first PixilArt follower – and no, it was no someone who was coerced. My post today has two shoutouts, the first goes out to user @xavierarnaiz for being my first follower… I will remember you when I make it big. My second shoutout goes to Chantelle T. Chantelle gave me the challenge of making an animal on PixilArt! To mark my halfway point, I decided to mix my past projects together. To start, I made the landscape, which was a skill I got to work on in Part 5. Instead of blending the layers together, as I did last week, I decided to use a rainbow formation to create a sunshine effect. From starting lighter, to going darker, it added some contrast into the sky – as oppose to a unified blue background. From there, I took my skills from Part 3 to add some flowers to my landscape. My focus here was the animal I was about to create, so I decided to keep the flowers nice and simple. Now, Chantelle had the preference of either a cat or a dog… or an apatosaurus. To see what tutorials I could find online, I decided to stick with the dog tutorials due to the large selection of content – although an apatosaurus would have been perfect haha. I took reference from the tutorial to create my head, and added a body as I saw fit. Overall, I am super pumped about how this turned out! Although it is rather simple, this was my first time making a PixilArt picture on my own, without directly following a tutorial. I find that I am becoming increasingly more comfortable with creating content independently – something that I could only dream of in week one. On that note, I have a question for all of you. Whereabouts are you along your own learning journey path? Do you feel as though you are still bound to tutorials? Or are you at a point where you feel as though you can start venturing out on your own? Let me know what you think in the comments below. Thank you all so much for reading. I hope you have a wonderful week 😊!
Continue readingMeet the Digital Citizens!
I don’t recall hearing the term digital citizenship until I was in university. Cyber safety was never really addressed in my own schooling. When I was in high school all of my friends had Facebook as an online platform, and some had Twitter. The only time I recall discussing online[Read more]
Continue readingLearning Project – A Minor Hiccup
Weekends can be busy at my house. All three of my kids are involved in sports and weekends often mean travelling to tournaments out of town. I was grateful that I was going to be home this weekend and planned to set aside minimum of one hour on Sunday afternoon and dedicate that time to […]
Continue readingWhat to paint now that Valentine’s Day is over?
For those who’ve been keeping up, I started my watercolour learning process as a way to create a bunch of Valentine’s Day cards to send to friends around the country. In total I ended up making and sending about 20 cards! It was a lot of work but I had fun doing it. Here are […]
Continue readingStrumming!
For this week, I thought of strumming. I’ve heard the word “strum” but couldn’t place its meaning, so I decided to go on a strumming adventure. Strums are often contrasted with plucking, as a means of vibrating an instrument’s strings. During … Continue reading
Continue readingDigital Citizenship – ‘One life’ or ‘Two lives’?
A policy planning guide, Digital Citizenship Education in Saskatchewan Schools, published by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education defines digital citizenship as “the norms of appropriate and responsible online behaviour (12).” The updated Digital Citizenship defines Digital citizenship as the continuously … Continue reading
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