I took myself on a little field trip this week. A new florist opened in town and I was excited to see what they had to offer. I also needed some birthday flowers for a friend. It was such a beautiful store and the walk- in cooler was stocked with the most amazing looking flowers. As she was arranging my purchase, I explained my learning project to the florist, who also happened to be the store owner, and I ended…
It is more important than ever to explicitly teach Digital Citizenship in Saskatchewan Schools. There are some creative opportunities to connect Ribble’s 9 elements of digital citizenship into the Saskatchewan curriculum. Digital Access The policy planning guide within the Ministry of Education’s Saskatchewan curriculum document describes Digital Citizenship as “the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, or national community (which) carries both rights and responsibilities”. The concept of community as well as rights and responsibilities of…
So, I have hit a wall. I had a moment this week where I felt guilty for not actually putting my learning to use. I have actually only created one arrangement…shouldn’t I be making more? I felt like I needed to reflect on that a little. And I realized this. I simply chose something that is not super practical. Although, I am interested in it, and I love flowers and arranging, unless I have 24/7 access to the supplies, or…
So I took an easy road this week. It has been a wild one and I was just not feeling the motivation for creation. I turned to Netflix for some good reality TV, and stumbled upon a series that fit kind of perfectly. The Big Flower Fight, which is described as such: Ten pairs of florists, sculptors and garden designers face off in a friendly floral fight to see who can build the biggest, boldest garden sculptures. This was pure…
My digital era of MSN Messenger, dial up internet, Prepaid minutes and flip phones…privacy…WHAT?? I am talking, having a conversation with my high school boyfriend on the home phone, while my family sat around the kitchen table and the furthest I could stretch the phone cord was around the fridge. I am talking trying to sneak downstairs in the middle of the night to chat with friends on MSN Messenger, but the dial up internet woke up the whole neighbourhood….
After completing my fall planter arrangement blog post, one of my followers commented and was curious about the pricing. I thought I would do a quick breakdown of the cost of my first arrangement and my plan going forwards. The key here- I am Ukrainian and if you know anything about these kinds of humans, you will know that means we are CHEAP. So, anything I do is often done during a sale or after I have extensively sniffed out…
Thank you Inshot for helping me document my first project- a Fall planter arrangement. InShot is a new mobile editing app for me. It had a lot of features and options. You can trim, speed up, apply filters etc. I kind of experimented with this video and used a lot of the different options. The video was a bit disjointed, but now that I know what the features do, I will know for next time which ones are necessary. This…
Twitter is one of my favorite places to get lost in educational banter, philosophies, instructional strategies, and practical solutions. A few years ago, I started a Twitter account for my classroom, at that time teaching grade ⅔. I used it as a way for families to connect with us and see what we were doing in our classroom everyday. We also followed other classrooms and learned from them! It was an overall amazing experience and the parent feedback was phenomenal….