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tams' sandbox of web design, digital marketing, teaching and learning lessons, crafts and activities to try + heartwarming thingies from around the web. Pick up your mess and leave this place better than when you came.

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Get addicted to the process & learning, not the outcome.

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Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

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What's better than student engagement? Making students act on what they have learned.

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When presenting slides

Written text and spoken words go through the same cognitive processing in our brains, so if you are presenting: motion with your hands, or limit the use of text in your slides. Instead use, imagery. ~ Steven Kolber, educator

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Word for the day

obsolescence (noun)

ob·​so·​les·​cence | \ ˌäb-sə-ˈle-sᵊn(t)s

Definition of obsolescence: the process of becoming obsolete or the condition of being nearly obsolete

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Face-to-face, blended and online learning

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Creativity for All

What have you learned overall?

My biggest take-away from this Adobe Class is that original thinking is the foundation for creativity. That is a big consolation as I have always credited creativity to being artistic, popular and divergent--adjectives that are far from my work.

Do you think about yourself as a creative educator and your students as creative learners?

I have always been a 85% conformist, 15% rebel. Though I encourage my students to be creative and adaptive lifelong learners, I never saw myself as a creative educator. However, especially during this pandemic, I can say that my students are creative learners as they are able to work on lessons given the unique circumstances they all have, and churn out amazing outputs regardless of 2020-2021 setting.

How might you design an engaging lesson in which your students get to engage in creative thinking?

The past two web design classes I taught allowed them to engage in creative thinking. The first one was through a client brief and resources that they are to use and refer to in order to create a website. The second one involved each to create their own WordPress-based website following a website plan that aligns to an existing business, hobby or choice of interest they have.

The courses may have been made more engaging with various self-paced activities that involved the students learning and trying hands-on exercises.

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It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

Charles Darwin

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Life is the greatest school of all, experience is the greatest Teacher there is. ~ Conrado de Quiros

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

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Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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The future belongs to the integrators.

 Educator Ernest Boyer

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Choose something that, even if it fails, you are going to be proud of it.' That was an amazing constraint."

David Rogier, MasterClass

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THE PRIMING EFFECT, which essentially shows that we find what we set out to look for

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Fancy this logo of CIRCLS, which draws the eyes to its red symbol, fitting to its acronym pun.

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Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

Sigourney Weaver, actor

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Removed — Eric Pickersgill Studio

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Photographer Eric Pickersgill’s Removed project captured portraits of everyday life but with the smartphones removed to show how technology disrupts our interactions with others and our physical environment.