Something I’ve been grappling with since Teacher Education started has been to amass and organize all of the resources I can access for teaching. For my master’s degree in history, I was also juggling keeping track of my resources and… Continue Reading →
I have really enjoyed working through this inquiry. Not only has watercolour painting been fun and I’ve definitely seen some improvement in my skills, but I also have felt that I have learned a lot using different technologies and exploring… Continue Reading →
So this week I wanted to continue the winter theme and work on practicing layering. What better way to do this than to tackle some wreaths! It also combined aspects of my favourite painting exploration: monochrome. I started by setting… Continue Reading →
This week I have been really missing winter. Snowy, icy, blowy, miserable Saskatchewan winter. I never thought I would say it, yet here we are. At first it just seemed as if something was “off” and I was wondering why… Continue Reading →
Tracy Humphreys, founder and chair of BC Ed Access, spoke with us about technology and inclusion in BC classrooms and the work her volunteer organization does to advocate for families of students with disabilities. The most common things Tracy hears… Continue Reading →
We were lucky to have Trevor Mackenzie talk with us about using the Inquiry approach in a public school setting. This was great to experience since inquiry comes up in almost every one of our classes and one of the… Continue Reading →
Architecture is another common type of watercolour painting and when thinking about what kind of architecture to attempt, I was reminded of my trip to Paris and how common it was to see people set up their easel and paint… Continue Reading →
I dive into my “Elements of Design” plan this time and decided to pay attention to value and Space. Value referring to the dark and light in a painting and space being aware of where objects are in the painting… Continue Reading →
On the same thread as the last post I did thinking about how, when, and why teachers use technology in the classroom, it is important to think about distributed or blended learning. The recent Covid-19 pandemic taught us that there… Continue Reading →
As someone who went through k-12 schooling amid an emerging and then rapidly changing technologies in the classroom, I find the questions of How, When, and Why use technology in classrooms a very interesting one. I went from classrooms with… Continue Reading →