If you missed my reflection on the MTS Awakening Possiblities Conference, check it out here! Always wanted to blog with your students but were unsure about how to get started? Did you get started by could not determine how to maintain the blog throughout the year? This session shares an educator’s experiences as she introduces blogging to her students for the first time. Topics such as project implementation, purposeful use, and assessment integration will be discussed. Challenges and successes of the project will also be shared. I am very excited I had a “speaker” name tag! All excited,… Read More
MTS Awakening Possibilities Conference
This week was the MTS Awakening Possibilities Tech Conference and my head is still spinning over how amazing it was! Starting on Wednesday the 16th, approximately 600 educators got together to discuss educational technology in regards to:– implementation– policy– potential tools– project options– and much more!Here’s an excerpt from the official MTS Awakening Possibilities website: This conference was exciting for me for a lot of reasons. I remember attending the MTS Fab 5 Conference in Brandon in the fall of 2012 and seeing a banner advertising for an upcoming technology conference. At this time there wasn’t… Read More
ManACE Board Meeting
This Friday I attended my very first meeting as a ManACE board meeting. I was very excited as I hadn’t had an opportunity to meet a lot of our board members yet and I was looking forward to connecting with more educators who were interested in the same things as me. The meeting took place at St. John’s Ravencourt (SJR) in Winnipeg & I really enjoyed touring the beautiful campus and seeing some of the differences between the public and private education systems in Manitoba. This was my first experience with Manitoba’s private education system and it was definitely… 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
ManACE Journal
I am very honoured to have one of my articles featured in the Spring 2013 edition of the ManACE Journal. ManACE, (the Manitoba Association for Computing Educators) is a Special Area Group of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society as well as a member of the International Society for Technology in Education. This is the second time I have been published in their journal and am very excited to share my thoughts with other educators in our province. (The first time I was published was in the Spring 2012 edition.) My article, Teaching in A Fishbowl – What Can Happen When… Read More
ManACE TIN & BYTE
On our way to Neepawa! I shared on Thursday that I would be presenting four presentations within 20 hours and I am happy to report that everything went smoothly! On Thursday evening I attended a Technology Information Night (TIN) hosted by the Manitoba Association for Computing Educators (ManACE) and presented a short 20 minute presentation with Tyler, a fellow education student, on our experiences with blogging. On Friday I attended the 2013 BYTE Conference and, with Tyler, presented two regularly-slotted sessions as well as a short 20 minute live-stream presentation as part of the Bits of BYTE… Read More
Four Presentations in Twenty Hours
Today is the start of a busy two days for myself and Tyler L, a fellow student teacher. In November I shared that we would be presenting our professional development session, Connecting, Reflecting & Creating: Why We Blog, at the 2013 BYTE Professional Development Conference in Neepawa. A short three months later and the day is finally here! One thing has changed, however, our one presentation has turned into four! Tonight Tyler and I will be presenting at the ManACE Technology Information Night (TIN) on Celebrating our Blogiversary. We will be presenting a twenty minute presentation… Read More
Connected Educator Month
Did you know that August is Connected Educator Month?? To be honest I had not heard of Connected Educator Month until I stumbled across it yesterday on one of my favourite admin blogs, A Principal’s Reflections written by Eric Sheninger. Original Image Credit: https://fishbowlteaching.com/2011/04/21st-century-classroom.html Shared by Eric Sheninger at: https://fishbowlteaching.com/2012/08/connectedness-as-standard.html To celebrate I thought I would share an article I wrote for the Spring 2012 edition of the ManACE Journal. ManACE (the Manitoba Association for Computing Educators) is a Special Area Group of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society as well as a member of the International Society for Technology… Read More