Its been a busy first week back at university and my and my 1 Year Blogiversary Celebration contest is officially over! I want to send out another BIG, gigantic, thank-you everyone who made my first year of blogging so awesome! I had 27 comments on the 1 Year Blogiversary post, however, only 24 comments were official entries. I used a Random Number Generator and voila, comment 23 (of the entry comments) is the winner!! Congrats Maria, I am sending an email your way 🙂 Thank you to everyone who entered and is supporting me through my blogging adventure!
Internet for Educators – Welcome
Welcome New Readers! One of the courses I am taking this semester is Internet for Educators, which I introduced yesterday. One of the course requirements includes blogging on a regular basis about important issues related to ICT and education as well as guest speakers who will be visiting our class. My posts specifically for this course will be labelled “internet for ed” and can be easily pulled up by clicking on “internet for ed” under the LABELS heading on the right side of the page. If you are new to my blog,… Read More
Back to School & Quick Law 1
I am officially back at school for my LAST semester of university before graduation and I can’t believe that I am finally in the last four months of my six year program! It is safe to say that the graduation countdown has officially started. This semester we have two months of classes followed by two months of student teaching and… that is it! I don’t even count student teaching as school because it is what I love, so I’m really only counting down two months until I get to be back in the classroom! This semester… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 48
I am pretty excited to be sharing my first Resources to Start Off Your Week post of the 2013 year! Plus it is my 200th post! I am pretty proud to announce that through these posts I have officially found and shared over 160 awesome resources that can be used in the classroom 🙂 If you haven’t had an opportunity to check out some of these resources, I always add them all to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. My lists of resources include almost 200 annotated entries including:– 31 under the Social Studies… Read More
EduCon 2.5
If your New Year’s Resolution and/or Professional Growth Plan involved anything to do with education (and I bet it did) then you should definitely check out the 2013 EduCon Conference, EduCon 2.5, in Philadelphia. I was first introduced to this conference last year via my amazing PLN on Twitter and participated in two sessions, known as “conversations”. (You can read my review here) Here is a description of the event from their website: “Educon is both a conversation and a conference. It is an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person… Read More
1 Year Blogiversary Celebration!
A little more than a year ago I decided that I wanted to begin blogging about what I was learning during my education degree and a few days later I officially launched my first ever blog! One year later I am still blogging regularly and can officially say that I accomplished my 2012 New Year’s Resolution (I don’t think I’ve ever accomplished one before). I saw a lot of people posting their blog stats in their New Year’s posts so I thought it might be interesting to share some of mine. Here are some stats that I feel… Read More
January Currently
Of course with it being a new year and a new month we also have a new “Currently” post! 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 New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! I actually started writing this post and then quickly realized that my New Year’s resolution last year was to start blogging!! How did I forget that?!? In fact, in 2 days I will officially be blogging for a year! I have no idea how I forgot that but I am so excited to have finally accomplished a New Year’s resolution (I don’t think that has ever happened to me before)! If you have been following my journey over the past year you probably noticed that some of my opinions, thoughts and ideas… Read More
Thank You!!
I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! This Christmas was the first time my fiance and I have had Christmas at our house with just the two of us (all other years we have traveled back and forth between our parents’ places). The reason for this is because this year we are all traveled out after spending the 8 days before Christmas in the Dominican Republic!! We traveled with my fiance’s family and it was an amazing time, we are so thankful that we got to go on such a fun trip. Although going from +32C to -30C was a… Read More
12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Day 12
Merry Christmas everyone!! Welcome to Day 12 of my 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Everyday, yes, EVERYDAY for 12 full days I have been giving away a classroom resource that I have developed to everyone who visits! I’d like to thank everyone who linked up and helped spread the Christmas spirit by hosting giveaways of their own 🙂 12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 Giveaway!! The Great Migration PowerPoint Presentation Yesterday I posted a lesson plan on the Great Migration so now I thought I should include the accompanying PowerPoint presentation! I use PowerPoint presentations like this to help my visual learners and to… Read More