This semester I am adjusting to a lot of new changes. For one, I just moved from Burnaby to Delta and am enjoying my new home. I have also taken a break from teaching full time and am currently on maternity leave expecting to give birth to my first child in October. Finally, I am enrolled in my fifth course for the MET program. Hopefully, I can juggle a new born and a new course at the same time. Before my leave, I was teaching full-time Math and Science at a secondary public school for the Surrey School Board.
I am excited to learn about all the new emerging learning technology that I have started reading about in this course. It would be interesting to see how the different technologies can be implemented in a high school setting as a lot of the articles focused on post secondary education. I am hoping the exposure that I get from this course as well as previous MET courses would allow me to integrate sound pedagogical theory with technology into my teaching methods and make me a better twenty first century educator.
The one image I would like to share is the Piscasso Head Self Portrait that I had to complete as an introductory activity for another MET course. I had a lot of fun creating it and I feel that it is reflective of the flexibility technology offers a learning environment to merge multiple skills in an academic setting and a unique way to perform a task like introducing oneself. If anyone else wants to give it a try, it is available at http://www.picassohead.com/
Stephanie
Hello Stephanie! It does seem to be a busy time for you! Enjoy it, and your baby on the way, time passes rather quickly!
I love Picassohead, I taught Art last year and my students absolutely loved the site and created excellent hands-on Picasso portraits with the use of elements/forms Picasso is known for that are provided on the site.
I look forward to working with you,
Milena 🙂
I enjoyed the Picasso head project as well when I did it. I look forward to working with you this term!
The Picasso head project was fun. I look forward to you insights curing this course.
Dale
I think you are a very brave soul, Stephanie, to take on a course with a baby’s birth planned for right in the middle! I’m sure it will give you something concrete to think about when you are up in the night…..All the best. I work with pregnant ladies, and I always encourage them to only talk to people who have positive birth experiences to share. I, for one, LOVED my second delivery….most beautiful experience of my life. Wishing you much peace and joy in the weeks and months ahead. Diane
Hi Stephanie,
Welcome to the course. My wife and I just babysat my niece for the first time and WOW was that an eye-opener. I used to think “these women on mat leave got it made, they have all day to work and finish their masters” but I now know that couldn’t be further from the truth. Good luck with the semester, and with motherhood!
Brendan
Hi Stephanie, Best of luck with your new little one when they arrive. Looking forward to “meeting” them in October.
Take care,
M-A