I cant believe it is the final week of the free inquiry! I had so much fun discovering different ways to develop my twitch channel. For this final week I wanted to do something fun! I decided to ask a few of my other streamer friends online what their favourite part of streaming is.
Swisher: the viewers for sure
Merabella: chatting and making friends
Ahrora: making content on youtube
it was interesting to see how many streamers just love talking to viewers.
For my week 9 Inquiry I decided to reorganize my streaming desk. For this reorganization I want to take out every key in my keyboard and clean them and then clean my mousepad. After that I will clean my mouse carefully. I will clean both of my monitors with micro fibre towels. After reorganizing I posted a picture on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/JessKranny/status/1490484780185493507?cxt=HHwWhoCpodeAoq8pAAAA
For week 8, I decided to see how streaming at day compares to streaming at night. One Saturday I streamed during the day and the next Saturday I streamed at night. Now I will compare the stats.
The stream during the day was more successful in all fronts. It was more successful in views, follows, average viewers, and chat messages. I believe it was more successful because of the amount of European viewers that watch during that time.
This week for my inquiry to find ways I can use my social media to further my career as an educator. I was watching some twitch channels of teachers and TikTok’s of teachers.
My favourite discovery in my research this week was a Tiktok of a teacher that let to the discovery of her TikTok page. She had been taking TikTok’s of her classroom and how she creates community. It was amazing to see how she can share all the different ways that she is able to make a difference in her students life
This week for my twitch channel I decided to try changing some of my channel points rewards on my channel to gain interaction. At the start of my stream I spend time with my views coming up with channel points rewards. For example hydrate (chug water), VIP (channel VIP), 1v1 ( 1v1 me on stream).
I found throughout the rest of the stream my viewers were invested in chatting with me and each other and felt more like a community than any other stream. Another way I have been boosting community is by spending time with my viewers and subscribers through 10 man games.
This week on my twitch I decided to try something different instead of writing down my stats. This week, I tried asking my chat some questions about their elementary school experience and get some real answers from young people in our community.
For my first question I asked what their favourite year of elementary school was. I got many different answers but ultimately we concluded on grade 5. I found this interesting that most of chat liked grade 5 because that is the grade that I want to teach the most
The second question was about how often they felt like their teacher didn’t care about their education. I found it surprising how many people in my chat thought their teachers didn’t care about them.
This week we talked about a topic that is extremely important in our time. In class today we talked about artificial intelligence. In the slides we saw in class today, AI is described as “a collection of computer technologies that are able to perform tasks that emulate human intelligence”. I learned in class today that we interact with AI in more ways than we think! For example Siri/Alexa, Web search, Google suite, zoom, and even facial recognition.
This image is showing how Alexa would turn on the kitchen light
This is the second last week of reflections for this course! This week we talked about inclusion. We started off class by watching a Shelley Moore video on youtube on her channel Five Moore Minutes. Shelley is also an expert on special education in British Columbia. We spoke today of making all students feel welcome in our classroom and the importance of a comfortable classroom community. We talked about the Social Model of learning which highlights that
For this week’s class we had a guest speaker named Chantelle Morvay-Adams over zoom. Chantelle is the secretary and on the Board of Directors of BCEDACCESS Society. The BCEDACCESS Society is an organization run by volunteers that helps families of students with disabilities in British Columbia. Chantelle was very insightful on the long way to go that the educational system has in terms of technology integration. For example, many families and schools do not have money to buy technology for their children/students. Chantelle also talked about ableism which is something I had never heard of before today. Ableism is the discrimination against people with disabilities.
For class in week seven we talked about technology integration models like SAMR, and TPACK. Bringing technology into the classroom can be extremely beneficial for certain students. By using technology in the classroom it allows students to learn technology skills at a young age. TPACK is an approach on how to introduce technology to students. The three categories in this concept are content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge , and technological knowledge. These three categories interact with one another to explain how a educator can effectively integrate technology into learning. SAMR is a framework that categorizes four different degrees of classroom technology integration. SAMR stands for the categories which are substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition.
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