Wow! I now have another amazing FREE online tool to introduce to my students! http://www.hypothes.is.com This tool enables the user to highlight text, annotate it and share it! Not only will it come in handy during my own personal educational journey (going back to school after many years!), I can share this with my students and […]
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So far this has been very eye opening. I’ve had Lightbeam running for about 15 minutes and have visited a few of my favorite sites. I visited 9 sites and I connected with 50 third party sites. It seems like the sites with more connections were online shopping sites. Where as sites that I used …
I don’t think I know a single person who hasn’t seen the negative attacks on posts of others online. When creating online media everything is open to interpretation. Therefor the circumstances of the person reading and responding to the post greatly influence how they respond. To protect myself from participating or being victimized by internet …
I put pen to paper and started this exercise by brainstorming all the reasons I decided to return to school. Once I had a mess of words I organized them into some common themes and choose a few to focus on. My greatest motivation is to learn more about leadership and grow my personal management skills …
At first I found this activity to be quite frustrating. I could not figure out how to get the extension to open! But after some trouble shooting, I was successful. I’m excited to use this tool to interact in the upcoming courses. This tool allows for the sharing of knowledge in such a simple …
Hey all, Thanks for joining me on my walk through the woods and my educational journey of self-discovery. I can’t wait to get started! A good place to get started, would be introducing myself! I get called a few things these days; ‘Mom’ (usually hollered from one level of the house to another), ‘Ms.Lacroix’ and […]
Hi! My name is Maddison. I’m a kitchen manager at a busy national chain restaurant. I’ve also held the position of general manager with this brand. I work primarily with people ages 16-20. I enjoy the challenge of engaging and motivating t…
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Good evening again, Trying to piece by piece work through the orientation and hoping that at the pace that I am going I will get through it all by May 2nd. Signed up for hypothes.is tonight and was able to use the program successfully to add my own annotations as directed. I am pleased with […]