A special lady with a special gift…
Check out this link. This is a friend from school who writes her own music and someone I really admire. If you like her style share this link! Her name is Amy!
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My favorite mans group!
Jesse and his friends group! Want to hear some great French folk music…check out this link!
Technology in the classroom!
Video, dvd’s and some power point here and there was about as far as technology went for me in my school years. I took a computer class in grade 10, but it consisted mostly of typing….getting better at typing. I must confess though that it was the frequent use of msn that helped me to become the fast typer I am today! I loved msn…I mean who really didn’t?Since I began my addiction to facebook however msn has kind of gone down hill in my world.
I’m excited for this class mostly because I feel like most of the students I will soon be teaching know far more than I do about technology…lets put it this way I just got myself a cell phone in the last 5 months, even the use of a cell phone was foreign to me. I think I tried to avoid it as long as I could…because really, people in the past had never had an issue in trying to get a hold of me. It’s like our society is pretty much setting us up to be dependent on the use of technology…I mean really when was the last time you had to make a firm decision to be at a certain place at a certain time to meet someone or make official plans? You don’t really have to right? Just say hey I’ll call you! Now we are just getting confused and flying by the seat of our pants more often than ever!
The impact of new technologies on our students learning and achievement is huge! I think one thing we must remember is that we are in control and we must always remain in control. Some of us do have addictive personalities and some of us often feel the pressures of society to buy and feel like we must be continually be upgrading our computers, cell phones, ipods, etc. Our busy lifestyles seem to be taking a hold of us….what’s wrong with slowing the pace down..I mean we are going to be around for 1000 more years or so what is the rush?
Speaking of rush I got to rush off here cause my wrist hurts already from all this writing and heck man my eyes can only hack so much time staring at this unlovable and unsociable thing called the monitor. Bye for now!
A little about me…
This cyber world is all a little freaky to me at the present moment, however as a teacher in training I think I better begin to face the music and explore this whole new world! I grew up in Moose Jaw (yes that’s correct the city in which every comedian enjoys to joke about). I’m not going to lie though…I really love my home town. I have one older sister who was just recently married and two fabulous parents! I graduated from Vanier Collegiate in French Immersion…mais mon francais est past vraiment bien maintenant parce que je pratique pas beaucoup.Before entering university I actually took four years off…YIKES where does time go? My first year out of highschool I lived out in the Rockies. I love the Canadian Rockies, it was just something I always wanted to do. I worked at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise for about 8 months and had the time of my life! I saved up some money and decided I would go off traveling for a year. I headed off to Australia. The plan was to travel Oz, than Thailand and then I was going to head to the United States to visit my sister who was at the time living in Rhode Island…..but things don’t always go as plan to they?Four months into my backpacking adventures in Oz I was in a bus accident. I was on an overnight bus and at about 4 in the morning our bus hit the ditch. I broke my lower back (L1 to be exact) and had to spend six nights in hospital. Thank goodness I had insurance…and I was in an English speaking country! I had to return home to do some physio and get back on my feet. I recovered very speedily and still had an itch to travel. I decided however to remain in my own beautiful country this time. I went to live out in Halifax for the summer. I LOVE Halifax…it was the best summer ever. I hope that some day soon I can go to Newfoundland.Wow ok so I don’t really want to ramble on to much longer here…there is only so much a person really wants to read about another. I then took a year of bible school and then worked a little in a group home until I found out I was accepted into the faculty of Education at the University of Regina! I am majoring in Health and my minor is special ed.
