It’s been quite a roller-coaster ride this past week. As many of you know, I accepted a one year contract teaching grade 9 English, Foods, and Phys. Ed in my home town of Fort Qu’Appelle for the year. Unfortunately though, our enrollment numbers dropped by around 70 students from last year and the administration was [...]
It is the night before the beginning of 2008 school year and I am happy to have been offered my first teaching position in my home town of Fort Qu’Appelle. I will be teaching 3 sections of grade 9 ELA as well as a Foods 9 and a Phys.Ed. 9 to round out the afternoon. [...]
Happy Solstice Everyone.
I’m feeling much better today having spent it out in the part at the National Aboriginal Day festivities. There was a good turn out of people and some large size circles formed during the Round Dances.
Just wanted to continue playing catch-up by posting my Tech Task #6. I created a feature piece, on [...]
My ECMP prof, Alec Couros wrote a blog last week highlighting the article by Nicholas Carr entitled, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
The article explores how the advent of google-aided internet surfing, hyperlinking, and social networking is decreasing our mind’s attention span.
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has [...]
In one of our classes last week, Alec had mentioned using the Miro application to download videos onto your computer and as I am a big fan of Miro, I thought I’d take this time to share with you some of it’s potential uses in education. Miro is essentially an internet TV application that allows [...]
After an enjoyable May long weekend spent digging flower beds, weeding strawberry patches, and planting a young community of green onions, I am feeling refreshed and rejuvenated and want to stress the importance of including gardening and permaculture projects into the education curriculum.
As I am interested in Project Based Learning, my roommate recently came across [...]
…And just I’m trying to get caught up to speed, when what I really want us to do is just to slooooow down…
It seems like I’m spending a lot of time on the internet these days without getting much done. I’ve spent the last week just trying to figure out how to make my time [...]
Hello Readers in Cyberworld,
Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog site, which will hopefully serve as a portfolio that will showcase the work my emerging development within the field of Education. I am a soon to be a graduate of the University of Regina’s Secondary Education program. I’m graduating with a major [...]
