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Month: January 2022

Educational Video – Exploring Twitch

I was able to create an educational screencast and incorporate H5P as I described the homepage of Twitch. This process taught me that it is possible to introduce videos to students to support learning. The screencast itself was easy to record and I was able to follow the instructions on how to include H5P. I found that H5P allowed for a more interactive experience and I feel that students will be more engaged with the content when questions are being asked.

Free Inquiry Introduction

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My free inquiry topic for this course is about streaming on Twitch! I just began streaming last month and my goal is to stream at least once per week every Wednesday (my dudes). I plan to mainly stream Magic: The Gathering, but I would be open to streaming other games as well.

If you are curious at all about Magic and would like to learn more about my favourite game, then check out this Wikipedia page: Magic: The Gathering – Wikipedia

My Open Educational Resource (OER) research led me to a course on game theory and strategic thinking, which would be a great introduction to playing Magic competitively. That resource can be found here: Game Theory | OER Commons

I am proud to say that, after only a month of streaming, I was invited to be part of Twitch’s affiliate program. Being an affiliate means that I can earn revenue from running advertisements and from other Twitch users subscribing to my channel. I am going to update my free inquiry progress weekly with any actions I have taken to help grow or improve my stream. I regularly tweet before I go live on Twitch, so feel free to follow me on either platform. The links to my Twitter and Twitch channel are as follows:

@SeanHunter (@BaronOfBaconMTG) / Twitter

BaronOfBaconMTG – Twitch

“Most Likely to Succeed”

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I really enjoyed watching “Most Likely to Succeed” and felt truly inspired afterwards. Seeing such a novel way of education being introduced, and succeeding, was refreshing and led me to a lot of questions with regards to our current education system. The discussions throughout the film made complete and total sense to me. Education should be about the process and the goal should be to leave students with tangible skills that can be applied outside of the scholastic system. Their inquiry-based projects that ultimately led to a school wide exhibition turned out to be an extraordinary example of how passion, wonder, and perseverance can be applied to create something amazing.

The journey that each student, in particular Samantha and Brian, went through during their time at High Tech High showed how they had matured and learned valuable lessons that I do not believe they would have experienced through attending a traditional school. I am interested to see if our current education system will be able to adopt some of the principals of High Tech High, or better yet, move towards embracing inquiry-based learning.