With today being the last official day to visit practicum schools prior to the extended practicum, UBC decided to send those of us who are doing the practicum locally, out to our respective schools, and this is what I did:
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Today was just like any other normal day, except there were so many mini-conferences to check out over the span of 3 time slots, with the day opened by the conference keynote speaker, Jan Unwin (8:45 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.)
I attended the following sessions:
Session 1 (10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.): Everything Google: Gsuite and more
Session 2 (11:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.): MediaSmarts Digital Literacy Training for Canadian Educators: implementing digital literacy into your teaching practice
Plenary Meeting with Dr. John Yamamoto and 3 guest speakers (1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.)
Session 3 (2:10 p.m.-3:30 p.m.): Get outdoors! Exploring strategies for teaching and learning in the outdoor classroom
A big round of applause for all these invited speakers who did what normally would take them to do over the course of a few classes and pack all the information into just an hour’s time!