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Hello everyone, my name is Shawn and this course along with ETEC 532 are my 8th<\/sup> and 9th<\/sup> MET classes and I can just see the light at the end of the tunnel. I live and work in Vancouver. My wife and I have two young kids, a three year old daughter and a 10 month old son. We currently live in a small apartment in East Van and are looking for something bigger but the pandemic has somewhat stifled our search. I work for the Vancouver School Board as a District Resource Teacher. In my role, I support teachers with students that exhibit challenging behaviour, provide professional development for the district, and liaise with special ed. behaviour programs. This year, I was deployed to teach in one of our programs from September to a few weeks before our spring break, got back into the office, and have been working from home since.<\/p>\n This is my work bag and pretty much the only bag I use on a regular basis. It\u2019s a durable Timbuk2 bag that I bought from MEC many years ago. The bag contains common office work items laid out on our bedspread and arranged with enough contrast to see everything.<\/p>\n Generally, the items in my bag can be categorized into four basic groups; safety, technology\/communication, stationary, and miscellaneous personal items.<\/p>\n For safety, the items are pretty obvious for these times. I have a mask, that my wife hand-sewed, and a small bottle of Purell hand sanitizer. These are relatively new additions to my bag, as I have been primarily working from home and only seldom leave the apartment for something work related.<\/p>\n The tech\/communication items, I have my district issued MacBook Air and a Samsung phone, both old and are on the brink of being obsolete, with charging cords. Also, I have my personal iPhone again with the charging cord. In addition, a set of earbuds, four USB drives that contain district documents, some confidential documentation, and professional development presentations. The dongle supports connection to a projector.<\/p>\n I\u2019m pretty old school when it comes to taking notes. Many of the new District Resource Teachers take notes on their laptops, but I still prefer my hand-written notes, mostly because I\u2019m a quicker at handwriting than typing and I like to have my notes beside me when I summarize my consults onto official district reports. In my bag, I have three notebooks and a pencil case with a variety of writing implements; two pens, a mechanical pencil with spare lead, and a blue highlighter.<\/p>\n The miscellaneous personal items include; my Vancouver School Board badge, issued in 2004, my wife tells me I look like high school student in this photo, other items are a stretchy frog (a fidget tool), a finger tentacle (I use as a talking stick with students), an old Superdry label (I use as a bookmark), and a water bottle. I found an old SFU printshop card tucked into the pencil case.<\/p>\n Most of the items in my bag have to do with text and text technologies. The text technologies include any of the items that produce text. Consider the laptop and the stationary items, they essentially serve the function, notes and documents can be produced digitally or manually. Interestingly, having more options of which method to utilize allows me to customize \u2018what I use to do what.\u2019 There is a wide range of what type of text you can find in my bag, work-related documents and resources, personal documents (resumes, cover letter, etc.), and school-related documents can be found on my laptop. Smaller and less \u2018official\u2019 texts can be found on my phone, i.e. text messages, emails, and news feeds, for example. I think my bag represents more of a communication centre to connect one-on-one, small groups or to large groups, depending on the information that I need to distribute. I think the literacies these items represent are pretty typical of what you would find in a work-related bag, there are a variety of modes (digital and manual) and a variety of quality (work documents and personal communications). There aren\u2019t many personal items, I had removed the photos of my wife and kids, but there are two little acorn shells that my daughter put into my bag a few weeks ago that I haven\u2019t taken out yet. You wouldn\u2019t be able to tell that I have a family nor could you tell that I like to play sports. There are no items that project the narrative of husband, father and soccer player. If the tech items were taken away, this would be a pretty typical work bag 15 and even 25 years ago, given the notebooks with writing implements and a few personal effects. If an archeologist found this bag in the future, I think they would conclude that it\u2019s a pretty typical work bag of someone from our era, considering the digital and manual text technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, my name is Shawn and this course along with ETEC 532 are my 8th and 9th MET classes and I can just see the light at the end of the tunnel. I live and work in Vancouver. 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