EDTC 300 Blogs

      I remember John Keats' " Ode to a Nightingale " from poetry annotation in grade 10 AP English. It was one of my favorite poems from that class. It was with this poem (and Shakespeare's plays) that I found allusions interesting in poems. I thought they sometimes added a lot more depth than similes and metaphors.  If you couldn't tell by now, I looked into Ode poetry this week, and it started with  Ode - Poetry Foundation . After a few more sites, I surprisingly learned more about odes than I previously did in English class.  An ode is a short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event. In ancient Greece, odes were originally accompanied by music—in fact, the word “ode” comes from the Greek word  aeidein , which means to sing or to chant. Odes are often ceremonial, and formal in tone. There are several different types of odes, but they are all highly structured and adhere to poetic forms. ( Masterclass , 2021). What's unique f...

  Cyber safety, huh.  There's one thing that comes to my mind about cyber safety in school, and it's a traumatizing story. 

 I found this week's poetry style enjoyable and frustrating to practice. 

       What stood out to me from  An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube  was Michael Wesh saying, "It's a celebration of new forms of community - types of community that we've never really seen before, global connections transcending space and time. It's a celebration of new and unimaginable possibilities" (4:58).      I don't know if it is hard to believe, but I rarely used tech before we moved to Canada. We honestly weren't fortunate enough, especially since our third-world country was not as advanced then as it is now. I only remember the DVDs, CDs, and developed photographs. My cousin and I were Michael Jackson fanatics, lazying around with the radio on, and then hours later, I was binging on classic Barbie movies. It was overwhelming to see so much technology in Canada. Before school, I would wait for the bus by watching "Bo on the Go!" and other shows on PBS Kids. I was gifted my first iPod when I was eight, and since then, I've re...

 Before I go and make this about me, here is a timeless poem that'll surely introduce you to this week's victor.  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

      So, this week was hectic . With all the deadlines and events I was partaking in, I knew I needed to organize myself better. I didn't realize how taxing this week's prompt was until I spent hours maneouvering through this video editing platform called Shotcut .  What is one way people can organize things or themselves?  Ironically, the lucky poem type for my learning project this week is the list .