Week 9! final tech talk... wow...

      A midweek blizzard makes time go even faster!  Especially when I didn’t make it home… and how thankful I am to my friend’s mom and dad for keeping me for all those days!  So grateful. I am sure I would have been stuck on the highway at Alexander had I decided to try and make it home.  Soooo very thankful.  So HUGE thanks Pete and Sheila!!  Be prepared for more “blizzards” next year!

Hockey talk…

     Well Darren’s team WON!!!  Was so exiting!  The team pulled it together, gave us a VERY good game, but won in the end.  Whew.  The coaches would have LOST it, had they lost! LOL  Here’s a pic!

Currently Darren is mid-way through the Pee Wee Provincials with the Hartney/Deloraine Pee Wees.  They played twice yesterday and although they lost, they played very good games and did have more chances to score, so it isn’t terrible!  Had they made their own provincials they would have played in the “C” division, so placing 7 in the round robin at “B” Provincials, they are doing awesome! They play in the consolation round at 12:30 tomorrow so hopefully they give us another good game to watch.

Trevor is up in Stonewall/Warren rinks for his provincials.  They lost their first game and won the second. Now they play tonight at 7:30 – did have the crazy thought that I would have time to make it there to watch the game, but decided I should stay on the smart side of being a “Hockey Mom!”

My final and last Tech talk….

I am amazed that this will be my last blog with my “Tech talk” addition!  I learned so much about different apps, programs, and other helpful tools to use in the classroom I am shocked!  I tried to take good notes so I can go back and figure out what exactly I learned, but I suppose if I actually read this blog, it might tell me! There is method to Mike’s madness, I guess!

So this week was a bit disappointing as we were supposed to Skype with Kathy Cassidy, and I missed an opportunity to listen in to a conversation with her that Mike set up.  I got the email only minutes before it was to happen and at the time I was still wifi-less, so it didn’t work out for me.  However, I still have her fantastic book, follow her on twitter, and I have sent her a link so she can watch my group’s “movie” about her book, so I am sure that I will be in some sort of a conversation with her at some point in my “career.” 

Otherwise in class we learned snippets about the Smartboard in the classroom and some different online tools to create “webs” which adds a fun way to make them as opposed to the good old paper and marker!

Oh!  And update!  Darren DID have enough money to buy a Sphero!  Turns out we found one for $119!  Right in his price range.  

 

     So my reflection on this class…. Hmmmm…well….. just kidding!  I enjoyed this class and I think that I have almost conformed to being a techy teacher.  I will definitely be using some of the tools in my classroom.  When I was out on my last placement, I did plays with the kids.  Now to switch it up… I would video them in front of a green screen and put it all together with maybe some voice over (but I would have to figure that out first) and then mix it up and present the movies!  How fabulous would that be at their Graduation in 2028!  Soooo, maybe in my kindergarten experience in Souris, I will try something like that… hmmm might also be mayhem, but will see!!  The tech world is now at my fingertips!!  So a big THANK YOU to Dr. Mike Nantais at Brandon University in the Faculty of Education for the great experience!!  I am very thankful.

TTFN

Connie

P.S.  I may just fall into the Blog zone and may keep it up… Maybe weekly updates of my placement?  I don’t know…. Will see!!!