Hi all!. I am Tamara Wong and I live a small farming community outside of Toronto. After living in Toronto for 4 year while my husband finished school it is nice to hear the birds sing and smell the fresh (most of the time – it is a farming community) air. Living farther north has […]
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Hi Everyone, I’m really excited for this course. I’m not sure if I would consider myself a pioneer or if pioneering is necessarily my calling, but I am really interested in learning how to become a successful pioneer and understanding their efforts in general. I completed the emerging market poll and I found it difficult […]
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Hi Ashley!
I am right next door in Mississauga! I am also in my last term, this fall I am working on my 7th and 8th courses (also taking 540 and really excited about that one, too!) and 9th and 10th in the Winter.
Your post about QR codes reminded me of a video I saw recently about a school that really integrated them… I mean everywhere! Here is the link:
You are right next door! 540 is a great course, I took it during my first semester and loved it!
Thank you so much for the video, I found it really interesting. It’s neat to see an example of how schools are integrating QR codes.
Hi Ashley,
I couldn’t agree with you more about working with the atypical learner. It’s one of my favourite parts about teaching, it requires patience and thinking outside the box and is extremely rewarding. I’m also taking my last 3 courses this semester, excited and nervous as well!
Best of luck!
David
Hi David,
I love thinking out of the box for the atypical learner. It is extremely rewarding when you find the tools that work for them.
Best of luck with your last three courses!
Ashley, sounds like you do amazing work, people like you are very needed out there!! I’m very intrigued about your picture – it so cool but I can’t figure out what it is.
Look forward to working with you
Tamara
Thanks Tamara.
The picture was taken at a temple just outside of Kyoto. The pieces of paper are called Omikuji which are prayers or general blessings for good fortunes.
Hi All! This is my eighth course in the MET program and the first one that has been in blog format, not in Vista… so that is different and cool! I will be finishing the MET program by April 2012 so I am looking forward to my last year and will miss working and learning […]
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Hi, Jim! Wow. You bring a lot to this course. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed as I think I might be out of my league here 🙂 Your comment about your experiences with children resonated with me. I have a daughter going into grade 1 who constantly amazes me with the technology at hand and how easily she adapts to it. Of course, it’s now difficult to get my iPhone or iPad out of her hands.
And I’ll look for you on twitter . . . not sure what I would do without my PLN!
michelle
I also have great difficulty getting my iPad back from my kids… Jim Gaffigan tweeted once that there should be an app you can download to get your phone from a 5 year old… 🙂 http://twitter.com/#!/JimGaffigan
Jim, sounds like you are bringing a lot of experience with you! It’s so interesting to have so many people with so many different experiences that we can learn from.
Tamara
P.S. Such a bummer on that Google thing 😉
Jim,
Nice to meet you. Looking forward to working with you this term.
Keisha
Hi Jim,
Kudos to you for your involvement in Wikipedia. I agree that it is quite a feat that editors and contributors like you around the world have accomplished. Open source and open access tools always help restore my faith in humanity 🙂
Andrea
Hi, Jim.
I told my class today about your wiki feats… they were wowed.
I’m intrigued about what this course will reveal in terms of doing something with ideas, too. While I’ve never had something as big as your Street View idea stolen, I’ve thought of things before but just had NO idea about what to do with them. I hope this course can help provide the knowledge about what to do with great (or at least good) innovative ed. tech. ideas.
Cheers!
Hi Steve and Jim,
There are going to be plenty of great, Google Earth-like ideas coming out of this course, and we’ll have plenty of support from classmates and instructors to find out what to do with them. It also doesn’t hurt that we are blogging about them, and will have a digital record of ed tech innovations from the moment of their inception. The semantic web will be all about tagging and tracing back information to its original source, allowing us to be creative entrepreneurs.
All the best to you both,
Kyle
I too am a huge fan of Twitter and follow some amazing education and tech gurus..I have learned so much from that PLN! And a beer-blog? You have may attention!
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Angela Novoa 11:43 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Tamara,
Nice to “see” you again :). Wow, it looks like you have a lot of interesting things to do. Looking forward to continue learning with you again. Cheers!
Angela.
Julie S 5:27 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Tamara,
Looking forward to learning with a fellow learning junkie again.
Everton Walker 6:18 pm on September 10, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Tamara,
I am happy to see you around once more. I know we will continue to have a great time learning together. All the best my friend.
khenry 5:26 pm on September 11, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hello Tamara,
Great to see you again. Seems you are on the home stretch. All the best. Learning junkie myself, which sometimes is a challenge because I want to read everything and there is just too much and too little time 🙂
ifeoma 8:46 pm on September 11, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Tamara,
Good to meet up again. I see you are on the last lap(s) of your ETEC adventure, kudos to you! Looking forward to another exciting and rewarding experience.