category Weekly Reflections

For this week’s class, we went on zoom and got to “choose our own adventure”. I thought this class’s concept was really cool, as it gave students the freedom and autonomy to explore different resources and tools in a way… Continue Reading →

Indigenous Education is so important to bring into each class. This week one of our tasks was to read “The Five R’s for Indigenizing Online Learning: A Case Study of the First Nations School’s Principals Course.” The five R’s were… Continue Reading →

Our guest speaker for this week was Jeff Hopkins, the principal and founder at PSII, the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry. He used to be a superintendent at another school district in British Columbia but decided to start a… Continue Reading →

This week we had a guest speaker, Tracey from BcEdAccess, come in and talk about accessibility and assistive technology in the classroom. Some of the key things that I took away from the presentation were: The idea of each student… Continue Reading →

This week in class we talked about EdCamps and then went on to participate in our own. I had never heard of what an EdCamp was or what occurs during one, but after watching the videos provided in class I… Continue Reading →

This week, we had a guest come into our class to speak on the use of videos in the classroom. He touched on the topics of virtual field trips, animated GIFs, TeacherTube, Youtube and Khan academy. He also taught us… Continue Reading →

My long weekend was so great! I went home to Summerland to spend Thanksgiving with my family. Thanksgiving has always been one of my favourite holidays since I love the fall, turkey dinners, and getting to spend quality time with… Continue Reading →

Phone jail is an outdated and invasive strategy to deal with cell phone use in class. As a teacher, you should be setting an example for proper phone use, so it is not fair for you to take away all… Continue Reading →

This week, we had Jesse Miller come into our classroom and discuss social media in education and how to use social media as a future educator. He taught us about digital consent, biases in social media and security of self…. Continue Reading →