Technology in Education – D'Arcy L. Hutchings, MLIS, Future M.Ed.

Wing It: Make It Accessible

Posted on June 30, 2016 by D'Arcy Hutchings — No Comments ↓

Task: An essential component of being a responsible and compassionate “digital citizen” (and educator) is making sure that your works are accessible to an audience whose abilities fall across the spectrum. For this assignment, go out of your way to make your materials more universally accessible. This could entail creating accurate closed captions for your video in YouTube (if using auto caption, go through and correct them), providing an accurate transcript of your audio recording, going back to your recent Continue reading Wing It: Make It Accessible→

On Infographics and Accessibility

Posted on June 30, 2016 by D'Arcy Hutchings — 3 Comments ↓

My Infographic in Venngage Though I did not make this infographic for this class (I created it in October 2015), I wanted to share it here now for my Digital Citizenship classmates to see. It is certainly relevant to our unit/collection 3 explorations as it argues for open educational resources (materials with Creative Commons licenses). Since others have been making infographics, I thought you might like to see one from Venngage. As Rebecca Missler points out in a comment on Continue reading On Infographics and Accessibility→

Wing It: Become a (Super)model

Posted on June 15, 2016 by D'Arcy Hutchings — 4 Comments ↓

Prompt: Make up an assignment including the assignment activity and the goal/point of it. Complete the assignment yourself. Give yourself a grade. Become a (Super)model Task: Find a way to actively engage in being a digital citizen in a public way. It should be an activity that is outside of your norm. Not-so-secret objective(s): 1) Encourage learning about digital citizenship by engaging in it. 2) Model good digital citizenship for others. I chose to become a (super)model by answering calls Continue reading Wing It: Become a (Super)model→