Tech Tip: Canvas App

For me, the canvas app was not my favorite. It was slow and kept denying my user information!
I did, though, find an alternative way of having it up on my homepage of my phone- if you go on "safari" and go to canvas's homepage or login page, you can hit the options button (lower right corner) and select "homepage" and it will make itself into an icon. So neat!

Growth Mindset: My Sister

Growth By Watching Others: My Sister

Starting last year, I had the opportunity to begin sharing my college experience with my sister. Though she is two years younger, we look almost identical and people confuse us on a weekly basis.

Watching her grow as a person during her college experience has really humbled me as a person. She has changed so much and has gone through a lot of experiences that I am not sure I would personally be able to handle, I am proud of her and her work. She is an amazing individual and I know she will continue to grow immensely throughout the rest of her college career.

From Personal Archives

Reading Notes: Anderson Fairy Tales (Part B)

Bibliography: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson

Translated in 1872

The Little Mermaid

-much more gruesome than the original

- sisters actually have speaking role

-"immortal soul"

-sad ending, not like Disney

Gazing at the other world

Reading Notes: Anderson Fairy Tales (Part A)

Bibliography: Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Anderson

Translated in 1872

"Why can I not sleep?"

Reading A:

The Princess and the Pea

The Emperor’s New Suit

The Brave Tin Soldier (2 parts)

The Wicked Prince

The Little Match-Seller

Princess and the Pea

-story I used to read when I was little

-it is the same as I remember it: this is the first one I have read that has been like that

Emperor's New Suit

-laughed a little at first bc of “Emperor’s New Groove” with the llama

-silk and gold-cloth

-remember reading this one as a child as well, and not fully understanding it

Brave Tin Soldier

-great imagery: “the tin soldier could already see daylight shining where the arch ended”

Improvements

I greatly enjoyed this class! It was a great way for me to be creative and think outside of the box. The opportunity to read stories from other cultures was something I greatly appreciated.

In terms of changes, I would say to make all deadlines "open ended" or don't force assignments to be finished by a certain time, other than maybe the story edits. As a very busy student, I know I have some weeks that I can do a lot of work for this class and other weeks that I literally am running on no sleep with coffee beating my heart. The issue with college is a lot of times you will not know which weeks will be which, or you may have several in a row and no way to completely prepare. This option would give students a way to balance their assignments for this class in a more personalized fashion.

It would also be nice for some of the instructions to be on canvas rather than on the other site, so you don't have to flip back and forth multiple times.

Thank you for a great semester!

Tech Tip: Canvas Calendar

So this week for tech tip, I decided to do Canvas Calendar.
Personally, I think the calendar on Canvas is even better than the one on D2L because it is color coded and has so many different views! You can see what you have due in just one class, all classes, for a month, for the rest of the semester, in calendar format or in list format. The options honestly are endless. It is a great feature! If you don't know how to use it yet, go look it up! It is amazing!

My Calendar

Review: Connection Found

This is a little different than a typical review post, but I feel that it is relevant because it has to do with one of the stories from this week and several from this semester!

The other day, I stumbled upon this Buzzfeed article that I found super interesting, and I started actually thinking about this class! It talks about how a lot of times Disney movies derive from stories that don’t have such happy origins. Take a look!

Original Sleeping Beauty