Every Friday I share what I believe to be a notable person/organization/school on our social media pages to assist our staff in the development of their online Personal Learning Network. This week I’d like to highlight Thaddeus Bourassa, Instructional Coach for Louis Riel School Division. His bio states, “Thaddeus Bourassa holds an honours degree in psychology, a bachelor of education and a master’s degree in education. He is currently also recognized as a certified Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. During his career he has spent time in early, middle and senior high including a project-based learning program. He continues to explore the possibilities… Read More
Follow Friday – Aaron Klassen
Every Friday I share what I believe to be a notable person/organization/school on our social media pages to assist our staff in the development of their online Personal Learning Network. This week I’d like to highlight Aaron Klassen who teaches out of Shevchneko School in the Border Lands School Division. I first “met” Aaron via Twitter as we were both working towards our M.Ed together via Brandon University. We used Twitter as a back-channel for many of our classes and I quickly came to enjoy his contribution to our conversations. I then had an opportunity to cross paths with Aaron again while… Read More
#WOWWednesday
Every Wednesday I highlight some of our amazing MVSD staff on our social media pages. Everyday our staff are using tech in new and exciting ways, are learning new skills, and are sharing ways in which ed tech is assisting them in their practice. This week I’d like to highlight the technical vocational staff at Grandview School (GVS). Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have had to cease cross-transportation between schools in an effort to preserve student cohorts. As such, any students who would previously visit another school building for classes such as Human Ecology, Woodworking, etc are now having… Read More
Minecraft Education with Chelsea Hockridge
Its back-to-school in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. As tech integration increases as a strategy to meet our programming needs the teaching staff across MVSD have prepred some of their tips on how to make technology work for you. From August 31 – September 4 our teaching staff are taking over the ICT Social Media accounts sharing their tips, tutorials, words of support and more! Minecraft Education with Chelsea Hockridge View this post on Instagram This spring Chelsea @mrshockridge took the lead on implementing a Minecraft Lunch Club at Mackenzie Middle School. This program sees increased extracurricular opportunities for students &… Read More
MVSD MIE Expert – Judith Cooper
Its back-to-school in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. As tech integration increases as a strategy to meet our programming needs the teaching staff across MVSD have prepred some of their tips on how to make technology work for you. From August 31 – September 4 our teaching staff are taking over the ICT Social Media accounts sharing their tips, tutorials, words of support and more! MIE Expert Program – Judith Cooper View this post on Instagram Judith isn’t just using technology with her students, she’s been a leader for her colleagues as well & this summer was recognized as an MIE… Read More
Summer PD at MVSD
I personally love this time of year. I don’t care what anyone says, New Years’ Eve for teachers is the end of August! Summer PD is so enjoyable for me (both as a participant as well as a facilitator): everyone is refreshed following the summer break there is a feeling of excitement and new opportunity there is an increased ability to focus and implement new information as classes haven’t started yet those who are there are participating voluntarily and geniunely WANT to be there Like many school divisions, MVSD offers professional development for their teaching staff near the end of… Read More
#WOWWednesday
Every Wednesday I highlight some of our amazing MVSD staff on our social media pages. Everyday our staff are using tech in new and exciting ways, are learning new skills, and are sharing ways in which ed tech is assisting them in their practice. This week actually marks the LAST #WOWWednesday of the 2019/2020 school year! If you’re looking for inspiration please check out the #WOWWednesday label on this blog to see the staff/projects I have highlighted in 2020 or view one of the social media accounts to scroll back and seel ALL of the posts from this… Read More
#TechTipTuesday – Archive Microsoft Teams
Every Tuesday I share a Tech Tip on our social media pages to assist our staff in their use of technology as it relates to their role. Archive Teams. (2020). Uploaded by Kirsten Thompson. Available online at: http://fishbowlteaching.blogspot.com/ Last week I shared our Year End Tech Checklist to assist our staff as they wrap up the 2019/20 school year. One of those tasks focused on the use of online learning platforms, specifically looking at what to do with these environments at the end of the school year. Following the use of these tools we are left with an environment that houses a… Read More
Teams / Online Teaching Self Reflection
As we wrap up this 2019/2020 school year still in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic I continue to encourage educators to carve out time to purposefully reflect on this experience as it relates to their use of online learning platforms: – what worked and should continue – what did not work and show be discontinued or modified – what you need to learn more about to be successful – what strengths you can share with colleagues In my search for supports for our staff I came across The MOOBRIC which was originally designed for Moodle-users from the Avondale College of Higher… Read More
#TechTipTuesday – Year End Tech Checklist
Every Tuesday I share a Tech Tip on our social media pages to assist our staff in their use of technology as it relates to their role. Year End Tech Checklist. (2020). Uploaded by Kirsten Thompson. Available online at: http://fishbowlteaching.blogspot.com/ The end of the school year means a very standard routine for educators: time to clean out your classroom! For many of us this includes garbaging any unnecessary clutter that has accumulated, archiving and filing, revamping bulletin boards, and perhaps the beginning of an update to certain decor elements. Guess what? This should be happening digitally as well; especially this year!… Read More