Where I work and live:<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently, I teach at White Rock Elementary<\/a> in White Rock, B.C.\u00a0 (I\u2019ve taught a variety of levels gr. 1 to 7 over the past 18 or so years of teaching but have been teaching Primary for the past 10). I am also the tech facilitator at my school and help support staff to integrate technology. This is a voluntary role in elementary school, though from 2004-2007 I held a two day per week grant position supporting literacy and techno-literacy by co-teaching and planning with staff! I LOVED that job! Really LIKE my current job but LOVED that one! Too bad the funding dried up.<\/p>\n Where I\u2019m at in MET:<\/strong><\/p>\n September 2009, ETEC511 is the sixth course in my program. I\u2019ve completed ETEC500, 510, 512 plus two non-MET summer courses: LLED565 and CSED400. My research experience is limited mainly to my current studies in MET, though I have done some research at the local museum (assisted to a great degree by a very helpful archivist!), participated in some action research projects in my district and, of course, avidly search the net whenever a question arises! I’ve started compiling a portfolio for my studies (an ongoing project that hopefully will help me when i enroll in 590) – Visit my efolio here.<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m very interested in science education and developed a paper during my studies in LLED565 (a course focussed on journal publishing, copyright and open access): Making Learning Relevant: The Use of Digital Archival Material in Elementary Science Classrooms. <\/em>I thought it would be interesting to test out the process I learned so much about during the course, so I submitted it as an article for publication with an on-line journal.\u00a0 I\u2019m now in the second round of peer review and waiting\u2026 waiting\u2026 waiting. Hope one day to either post a link here or, if it gets turned down, post the article! Until they \u2018release\u2019 it, I can\u2019t do anything with it\u2026 what an interesting (yet frustrating) process.<\/p>\n Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Away from work and school:\u00a0 I am involved in local marine stewardship. As the education director for a local environmental non-profit (www.birdsonthebay.ca<\/a>), I have developed several educational outreach programs that we deliver by donation (often free of charge) to local schools and community groups (Surrey, Delta, Langley, White Rock). I also helped put together an exhibit at the local museum centered around an atlas we published (the Georgia Basin Habitat Atlas<\/a>). A big perk of this exhibit was the creation and installation of a SEAquarium. This is a local saltwater eco-system that is now on permanent display at my school and is becoming a very valuable teaching resource. Seaquaria in the Schools<\/a> is a terrific program partnered with World Fisheries Trust.<\/a><\/p>\n BTW \u2013 My Skype name is kapoho17<\/em> – Kapoho is one of my favourite spots in the world \u2013 it\u2019s located on the Big Island of Hawaii near Hilo and is the most phenomenal inshore snorkelling I\u2019ve seen\u2026 and I look around! Kapoho Tide Pools<\/a> is basically an immense lava rock shelf filled with giant tide pools \u2013 tide pools you can swim in! Luckily it is also a marine protected area, so tread lightly and keep your fins up! (why the 17? My anniversary is St.Patty\u2019s day \u2013 my irish granny was so pleased).<\/em><\/p>\n Other interests: camping in my \u201cbus\u201d, snorkeling\/diving, kayaking, reading, photography, gardening<\/p>\n Bio – Who am I? Not a deep philosophical question, just a little bit about me: Hi, my name is Yvonne Dawydiak. 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