Jennifer’s Introduction

• 9 years ago
• Posted in:Introductions
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• Author: jennbb

When reading the introductory comments, my first thought was that “text” is anything that communicates a message. When I went online to look for a picture to represent this, the picture above jumped out at me. Whether it is print text like a book or magazine, digital text like an e-book, an email or a text message, or visual text like a symbol or a picture, anything that entails one person sending some form of a message to others, is text.

My name is Jennifer Best-Butler and I am a 2^nd grade teacher in Labrador, on the far eastern side of Canada. We live on the 53^rd parallel, so we have long, very cold winters, and short, hot summers, but it is a wonderful, safe, friendly place that I’ve called home for most of my life.

One focus in our Language Arts curriculum these days is visual text. A simple picture, like the one above, can convey so much information to the “reader.” Making students literate in all areas and in all types of text becomes more interesting and more challenging every day as we see even through the brief introduction how much text has changed over time.

In 2^nd grade Social Studies, we define technology as anything that is used to make our lives easier or more fun! Many days I have a hard time accepting that my phone makes my life easier as my children and husband have a way to reach me no matter where I am, but there is no doubt that technological advances have changed our lives in many useful ways.This is my 7^th MET course (or 8^th I guess, as I’m doing two), and I just luckily got in from the wait list! It is my first time doing two courses at once, so I hope I make it through! I have enjoyed looking at the pictures chosen so far and look forward to meeting the rest of you as well.