Hello! For this week’s reflection I’d like to talk and reflect on the TEDTalk from Sherry Turkle found here. Connection is such an important part of our lives. We need to connect with our family, friends, colleagues, students and many more. Coming from an immigrant family- I’m a first generation Filipino-Canadian, I have MANY relatives… Continue reading Week #2 – Connected, but Alone?
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Hi! It’s me! I’m back!
It definitely has been a long time! My last post was from December 2010! It was when I finished my Internship with the College of Education. Wow, what a journey! Here I am now in my 2nd class for my Masters in the TLL program. I thought I was done with classes in University, but… Continue reading Hi! It’s me! I’m back!
Continue readingDone done and done!
Well, It is finally here! 6 and half years in the waiting… I have officially completed my University Career! (Until I decide to get my Master’s that is.. ) I completed my internship last week a few days before Christmas. I had the most amazing experience during my internship! I taught in a Grade 5… Continue reading Done done and done!
Continue readingInternship!
Well week three of internship is nearly over and I can officially say, I’ve taught the students something! So far anyway… I took up science and social studies for my first subject last week. It is an integrated unit on the topic of Resources. I’ve been teaching the students about renewable and non renewable resources.… Continue reading Internship!
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It has been WAY too long since my last post. I’ve been working way too much I think. No excuses! I heard the greatest news ever on friday! It was a great way to start the long weekend! I’ve been worrying about my placement for my internship for the past week, because I didn’t hear… Continue reading Internship!
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Well, it’s finally here! the day I didn’t think would come…THE LAST DAY OF CLASSES! It’s a bitter/sweet feeling. It hasn’t sunk in yet, but today is the last “last day of (university) classes” i’ll have. Although i’m not done my B.Ed until December, these are the last classes i’ll be taking. (it’s been 6… Continue reading Last Day of Classes
Continue readingMajor Project
Well as the semester comes to an end, assignments are finally being done and handed in to our profs! This is a great thing! I teamed up with Kristi Wall and Katy Kohli for this project. We didn’t know what we wanted to do for awhile, then we decided that we wanted to do something… Continue reading Major Project
Continue readingGoogle Search Stories
Remember this Video we saw in class??
Well you can now make your own Google Search Story! Go on to the Google Search Stories page on Youtube and you can make one there easily!
I got this from Free Technology for Teachers.
Here’s one that I made …
Extra Time
Well for the past few days, I’ve had quite a bit of time on my hands, and I’ve spend a lot of time on YouTube. I totally forgot about the video below! It is a video of 57 different Youtube users collaborating together to make one video for Haiti. I thought I’d share it. I… Continue reading Extra Time
Continue readingTeaching Philosophy
I revamped my Teaching Philosophy into a digitalstory/voiceover! At first when I was doing the voiceover I thought, Why don’t I use voice thread! (I haven’t used it yet…) But i decided to use Garage Band and do a slideshow presentation. I really like GarageBand for podcasting purposes. I really think that podcasts are great… Continue reading Teaching Philosophy
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