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Last week was round two of webinar class! We used Zoom this week and in all honesty I felt like it was about the same as the bluejeans app that we used the first week. Nothing was majorly different except for perhaps the polling options. I know something I disliked though was I had switched screens for a moment and it brought me back to the webinar automatically (wasn't a fan). I completely understand why webinars are important for the working environment in a classroom. If someone is sick, if there is information that was brought up outside of class time, or even if there are people from different states wanting to join the class.... it is an awesome tool to be used. The readings for this week were about youth (one of my favorite topics!) The chapters were about infants, the mind and brain, types of learning, and motivation to learn. All of this was super interesting especially coming from a non-educational background. I remember in undergrad my education friends would be talkin...

https://umich.app.box.com/file/400582835697 (Once you are on the page, you must download it from the right hand corner and watch it on the quick time player). Hello, my name is Stacia Serafin. Welcome to my screencast assignment for class 643. Today, I wanted to explain how to make a photo album on an iPhone. The reason why I chose this topic is because I have been getting questions lately on how to make an album. For certain jobs you may acquire in the future you might have to take photos and submit them from your phone to your employer. For example, if you are a counselor you may have to take photos of your client and your clients living conditions or it could be an internship where you are taking before and after photos of a project. There are three different ways you can make and share an album. Option one is useful when you already have some pictures on your camera. Option 1:  Click on photos app go to ‘all photos’ Select (right hand corner)  select pho...

Well, the flu FINALLY caught up with me and had me bed-ridden for two days straight. I haven't had a sore throat in ages but this one was a duzy... even right now I'm in a little bit of a hazy mindset. I wasn't able to make it to the last class either due to freezing rain, however I did read the article  National Council of Nonprofits’s Code of Ethics for Nonprofits. I have worked very closely with a nonprofit in the past that has time to become established and well known, so they already have their set of rules and ethics clearly marked for staff. However, I understand where NCON is coming from when they are saying that for a new nonprofit you should post your values in a public space so people truly know what you are all about. Nonprofits are tricky when it comes to interacting well with the public because people do not always know the point of the business. Having your mission statement and ethics out for everyone to know is vital to the success of the business. The non...

Welcome to blog post number 2; the saga of the remote classroom. ...alright, its most definitely not a saga. In fact, I really enjoyed the remote classroom idea. The vibe that it gave off to me, though, was very 'online class-esque'. In the past, I have loathed having online classes. I liked the concept, but the actual execution for me was not good at all. For example, two summers ago to fulfill my foreign language requirement for undergrad I took an online Spanish class. The reason why this was so terrible was that I consistently forgot that there were quizzes due every Sunday and it was hard to regularly check when homework was due because there weren't reminder emails. My Spanish final was also basically a Skype call (much like how the BlueJeans website worked) but it was scary for me because we were required to have our microphone and video camera on. I do see how online classes overall are very beneficial, especially for non-traditional student usage. The reading b...

Hello!  My name is Stacia (Stay-Sha) and people think I'm weird for wanting to be a librarian. I attended Siena Heights University for the last four years and worked behind the desk in the library during that time (warmly being known as 'that library girl'). Everyone thought I was going to become a famous singer or go save the world full time, not only during the summer, but alas, the joke's on them. I've been learning that I love kiddo's in any age group so I decided to mix a couple of my passions into a job which was handily already made up; Youth Services Librarian. For the past two years I have run youth mission trips in Joplin, Missouri and Lorain County, Ohio. These moments have changed me greatly but they have also opened up a vast doorway of possibility and learning. I have met beautiful friends and people I now call family but I have also had the task of understanding that people (namely people ages 12-20) have different learning styles, something I am...

For the last two class periods, we have had mini-lessons taught by our classmates. I've honestly really enjoyed seeing how everyone has been able to fit so much information into just a short twenty minutes, but they have all been doing such a wonderful job. The mini-lesson that has really stuck with me though has been Eric and Packy's lesson about content management and managing personnel. I'm not sure exactly why, but all of the sections that they talked about was information that I had never heard before or had never thought of before so it was really interesting! It's really fascinating to me to learn about the reasoning behind how managers decide to hire someone (probably because that is what is happening in my current situation [looking for a job]). Packy and Eric really had a well-rounded discussion about hiring but also the possible reasons someone might get separated from a job. Chapter 14 about user experience was a really interesting chapter to read through....