Inspirational Find : TED Talk - Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend

In this inspirational find, Kelly McGonigal speaks about how to make stress your friend! The idea of viewing stress as not a "negative" factor in your life, but how we should embrace the changes our body induces under stress. If you have some time, check out the talk and ask yourself "have I ever tried to make stress my friend?" This talk truly made me reevaluate my lifestyle and reflect upon how I approach tasks and challenges or "stress" in my life. 

As a classroom teacher, I think it is important for students to know how to deal with "stress". After viewing this talk, it made me rethink of how we teach students to deal with stress. Do we provide an alternative narrative to stress, rather than "stress is bad for you etc." ? Are students equipped with the right tools to deal with "stress" ? Is there enough open-discussion about mental health awareness? 

**I have to give credit to my cousin, Jenn, who lead me to this inspirational find!! Thank you! :) 

POWTOON

Here is a short video creation, a product from experimenting PowToon in my YorkICT AQ class. Had so much fun and it was easy to use. I had gone to New York for Canadian Thanksgiving and used it as my topic for my Powtoon! I loved how easy it was to use and the animated characters (not just clip art) make the presentation interactive and fun.

Application Ideas:
- presentation tool
- allows for voice/audio to be added to the presentation --> alternative to oral presentation
- media --> animation
- narrative writing
- procedural writing
- storyboard
- dramatic arts

Beans In Action! - Experimenting With Stop Motion Animation

Beans In Action! By: Krystal, Nick & Joanne! 

Experimenting STOP MOTION in YorkICT AQ class this past Saturday. Simple to create, all you need is the STOP MOTION app or IMOTION app and take continuous shots to capture a movement. The white kidney beans worked really well and from 3 teachers who were beginner application users, using the application for the first time ...our short video was a success! Other materials to consider: plasticine, lego pieces, objects etc. Other class members came up with great scenarios and involving audio as well.

Application Ideas:
- integrating the Arts (i.e drama, visual, music, media)
- students can write a storyboard and turn it into a stop-motion animation
- tutorials of "how to's"
- procedural writing
- representing a mathematical problem
- alternative to oral presentations

Welcome to Ms. Chung's Learning Space!

WELCOME ! 

I will be using this blog as a working space to document and share my new learnings on interests related to education and teaching. I hope to share fun, inspirational ideas and tools on here that can be used in the classroom and discuss how it has helped my teaching practice! 

Starting up this blog has been a learning curve for myself (you learn something new everyday!), but nonetheless, it's up and running.........let the blogging begin! 

P.S. Thank you to everyone in my York University ICT AQ who helped me get this blog started! :)