My space for reflections, questioning, learning and growth.
This semester, I would have enjoyed taking on the task of integrating something new into my teaching practice, either social media or an open educational source. However, since I am on maternity leave, I like the idea of doing learning that is just for me. Initially, I thought about taking up yoga, and getting really […]
The first question posed, asks me to describe my personal relationship with social media. I fit into that category or major growth period for social media where I had a MySpace account for about 5 minutes before I was able to join Facebook in 2006, while in my first year of University. Initially, Facebook allowed […]
This is the grand finale! Throughout the course, there were several key learning moments for me. Early in the course I read in Bates text, that ‘learning is a dynamic process,’ which spoke to my personal constructivist ideas of learning. It fit with the idea that we are ‘lifelong learners.’ This is a bit of […]
For my course prototype, I worked on developing the ELA A30 course. As I said in an earlier post, this was to benefit me in the future and create something usable for me. In hindsight, this was much more challenging than creating something that I currently teach. I could have worked on adding more technology […]
For my second module, I wanted to focus on synthesizing information. Based on some of the learning that has happened this semester, I felt like this was a gap in my planning, and was something that would help my students gain a better understanding of all the content they had covered so far. There are […]
I’ve titled this ‘Interactions in a Digital Landscape’ to highlight how both I interact with the students in my classroom, but also how I have students interact with one another online. The thing about this is, that I find this both simplistic and extremely complex and challenging as a topic. It is simple in the […]
Respond to feedback received: Assessment plan: The assessment for the Padlet assignment is outlined within the Google Classroom assignment. There is a rubric developed directly within the assignment. This provides criteria for the students to use, as well as the example and class discussion on assessment during the lesson. Feedback: Feedback for students will be […]
To review, my chosen course profile is on the ELA A30 course. Within the course, the Canadian Perspectives: Celebrate the Glorious, Acknowledge the Scandalous is the unit of study. I have developed a UBD unit outline for this mini unit within the very large and extensive unit of study that takes approximately half of the […]
For this technological exploration, I decided to explore the tool called Mural. This is a digital whiteboard or visual collaboration tool, which I have never used before. I wanted to see what the difference is between Mural and other tools that I have previously used like Jamboard by Google. Since I have never used it […]
Course Design and Rationale The English Language Arts A30 curriculum will be a new curriculum for me to work with next year. I wanted to create something that would benefit me and my students as I work on developing a new course. The class looks at Canadian perspectives and landscapes and students place themselves within […]