As you may know, I will be teaching both Grade 7 & Grade 8 science in the upcoming school year. As I work my way through my planning for the year I am consistently working towards making my lessons relevant and meaningful for the students in my classroom. It is important to me that my students get excited about what they are learning and can be self-motivated when it comes to experiments and research projects. As such, I have been looking for new and interesting ways to introduce information to my students as well as resources to engage… Read More
Blog, Website, or Both?
Our school year begins in less than two months and I am spending this summer trying to get as organized as possible. In addition to the million-and-one things that are required of teachers, I know that I want to have my students blogging as well as have a classroom website. I have two science classes, Grade 7 & Grade 8, who I want to start blogging projects with. These are two of my smaller classes as I am nervous that I will get too overwhelmed if I tried to get ALL 7 of my different subject-area… Read More
300 Follower Giveaway!!
The last three months have included a lot of personal milestones for me including: – Obtaining my 1st teaching job – Graduating with my Bachelor of Education Degree – Being appointed to the ManACE Board – Getting married I realize that, at times, this has meant that my blogging frequency has dropped and/or been a bit sporadic. I promise that this is not permanent, however, and will be back into a regular routine again starting TODAY! In fact, the past few weeks specifically have also marked some exciting blogging milestones as well! I am so happy… Read More
My Thoughts On Feedly
I only started using Google Reader in January of 2012; I was in my first year in the Faculty of Education when I was introduced to it in one of our program’s ICT courses. At first, I hadn’t really recognized the value of the service as I really only used my computer for social media, email, and school research (no seriously, that’s ALL I used it for!). After beginning my blogging adventure, however, I was quickly addicted to the site as it was so easy to organize and keep track of the 200+ sites I began following on… Read More
Resources To Start Off Your Week 69: Canada Day Edition!
I realize that it is no longer the start of the week nor Canada Day… but I was distracted with the post-wedding craziness and didn’t quite get back to blogging as fast as I had originally planned. For all of my fellow Canucks out there, Happy (belated) Canada Day! For all of my followers from outside of Canada, hopefully you find these resources interesting, helpful, and fun 🙂 As always, I will be adding these to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading at the top of the page. Some Canadian pride! (I’m front row, on… Read More
July Currently
If you haven’t encountered a “Currently” post before, it is just a fun post at the beginning of each month that serves as a way to share what is Currently going on in your life! You can link up and share your own “Currently” post by visiting the wonderful Farley over at Oh’ Boy 4th Grade. Happy July everyone! I have missed blogging SO much. In case you haven’t noticed, my blog was seeing an increasing drop in posts throughout June… complete with a week and half absenteeism at the end of the month! This was the longest break in blogging I have taken… Read More
Summer #EdTech To-Do List
I recently read a post by Anthony VonBank over at his blog, Clouducation, in which he shared some of his #EdTech suggestions for summer. Since I am an #EdTech lover, my Twitter-Tried-It Challenge is still going on, and I’m now on the ManACE Board, I thought it was a perfect fit for me to create my own #EdTech To-Do List too! (Big thanks to Anthony for the inspiration!) Technology is a given. (2013). Uploaded by Scott McLeod to Flickr. Available online at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcleod/8399337241/ While most of us can think of countless things we would like to try/work on/update/etc,… Read More
Twitter-Tried-It Challenge Update 2!
The Twitter-Tried-It Challenge, that I introduced on June 6th, has been in place for a little over two weeks now and I’ve been trying so many awesome idea… have you? In my first Twitter-Tried-In Update I featured Ms Duemm who was the FIRST participant in the challenge. Since then, she has shared her experience on her blog as well. I definitely recommend that you head over there and check it out because it seems like a really neat project 🙂 I’ve also had Ms Banks, an elementary school Vice-Principal from Manitoba, join up with multiple implementations! She has… Read More
School Clothing is Here!
In May, “S-School’s” student council organized an event where you could order school clothing for the upcoming year. Being a small school, they only offer this event every three years and I was really excited that I was subbing in the school when they were holding it! It is a pretty exciting feeling to have school clothing that not only says “Staff” on the sleeve but also my new name on the back (our wedding is in only 9 days and then I will no longer be “Miss L”) The school clothing is officially in and I can’t wait to… Read More
ManACE Board Member
This past weekend I was lucky enough to head into Winnipeg to spend some time with some amazing teachers, enjoy some great BBQ, and discuss some plans for educational technology in our province. What was the occasion you ask? Well I am proud to announce that I will be serving as a board member on the Manitoba Association for Computing Educators and this past Saturday was their informal Annual General Meeting where I was welcomed aboard. Prior to me becoming a board member, I presented at the first ManACE TIN (Technology Information Night) in Neepawa and was… Read More