Sam Benkelman
Hi, I'm Sam! I'm a LLUF and currently living in Montana!
Tools I have worked with include:
- Google Slides
- Github
- Markdown
- GarageBand
- Soundtrap
- Ableton Push
- MindMup
- Adobe Spark
- Adobe Photoshop
- Qualtrics
Resources I've created:
- A Spark page on creating a podcast in GarageBand
- A Spark page comparing multiple softwares used for podcast creation
- A Spark page on narrative timelines
- A timeline.js of my online school day
- A document describing my experiences using Zoom for in-class presentations
- A video giving some personal ideas about efficient LLUF daily workflows
- A writeup expressing my thoughts on animation's relationship with pedagogy
- An assignment for composing classical music in GarageBand
- A GarageBand assignment designed to build up capabilities for composition
- An exercise for thinking about syllabi as stories with narratives
My bio:
I am a current senior at Harvard studying Linguistics. When on campus, I lived in Leverett House! I grew up in the small ski town of Whitefish, Montana, where I learned to love the hiking, swimming, picking wild berries, and generally anythin to do with being outdoors. I have been a LLUF since almost the first day I stepped on campus in September of 2016. At the Learning Lab, I've focused on working with GarageBand and other music/podcast creation and compliation software and exploring how that type of activity can be beneficial in classroom settings; I've worked with icebreaker games, which I think are a valuable tool for small classes that need to create relationships among students - a tool that should be used better; I have also spent time thinking about other analogies between the classroom and other spaces, such as a gaming space or a musical space, because these comparisons can give us great insight into building a good learning environment by using the tools that create buy-in, excitement, learning, mastery, and so on from those other environments. After graduation, I will be completing a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in the Czech Republic before moving more permanently to that country to work in Prague.