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October 13, 2010

Eight Passions **Have your passions shifted or been altered in the last** two years? How will your final portfolio encompass passion?

October 27, 2010

Teacher Management Sites (Software)

First Class BCESIS ONESYS Intergrade Desire2Learn Blackboard Moodle EdModo

How has my capacity changed, altered, improved, or transformed in the last 2 years for Teacher Management Site (Software)?

It is my assumption that Teacher Management Sites or Software refers to systems like BCESIS, ONESYS, and Intergrade Pro that allow us to record and organize information about students and teachers. Even before I applied to the LTT Program, I felt quite comfortable working with programs like Intergrade. I had often been approached by other teachers who had questions about how to use the software like Intergrade. When I look back at when I first started teaching, I remember filling in the bubble sheets for attendance and entering marks on a computer program that reminded me of MS-DOS. I remember more experienced teachers being frustrated using Grading software, while I felt more comfortable attempting to become familiar with how it works.

There will always be positive and negative aspects to changes in technology. I think BCESIS allows teachers to record much more information and share that information with teachers. However, I think the system does not allow us to have the same freedom and access to the information as we used to have on the ONESYS system. For example, as a coach, I could easily access my players' contact information, attendance, or grades to keep track of their progress in school. Now, I cannot do that on BCESIS.

Having now almost completed the LTT program, I know that there are so many options out there to aid teachers in organizing our job. I am more comfortable trying to find solutions to the problems I encounter using software. I am able to compare and contrast different software available and decide what will work best for me.

Data Analysis - Field Study One finding I am **certain** of in my research is...

...not all students are engaged by computer games as motivation for learning...

What data led you to this conclusion? - I have taken notes on observations/comments in the classroom. Some have commented that they do not like going on the computer

What new data could make you change your mind? - results from my survey - responses from an interview with a student

What can this process of examining certainty in data tell you about the nature and utility of the data? - forces me to consider the validity of the questions I ask and the meanings of the observations I make

November 13, 2010 Name five people, living or dead, who you would invite to a dinner party to discuss your research finding and the kind of data you gathered and what you think your conclusions might be.

In five separate blog entries:

Name each person. Say why you would invite that person. Say what they might say about your field study and why they might say it.

Name five people, living or dead, who you would invite to a dinner party to discuss your research finding and the kind of data you gathered and what you think your conclusions might be. In five separate blog entries: Name each person. Say why you would invite that person. Say what they might say about your field study and why they might say it.

David Suzuki I would invite David Suzuki to dinner to pick his brain about the thought technology may be necessary to motivate students to become more interested in their learning. I would be curious what his opinion would be about increasing learning through technology and whether or not this puts more of a burden on the global environment. I wonder if he views technological innovation at an advancement or a hinderance to our learning compared to how technology can influence our environment.

Greg Mortenson, author of __Stones into Schools__ and __Three Cups of Tea__ I have read both of his novels that depict the events he has had to endure to promote education in first Pakistan, and subsequently in Afghanistan. Mortenson has been a leader in spreading the access to education in areas of the world that are isolated from the rest of the global village and, consequently, from technological innovation. He has struggled to make people understand the value of education in an area of the world where war has forced to take a back seat. Education has been used as a reason for war in the eyes of some who think that education is far too influenced by the Western world. As Mortenson has struggled to provide education to children, particularly girls, how would he view the idea that students need to be stimulated by technology, whether it be IPods or computer games, in order to learn. He works with children who sit outside in cold climates and use a stick to draw ideas in the soil as a means to learn.

A child in Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake A teacher in our school spent two weeks of her summer vacation travelling to Haiti to take supplies to people suffering from the earthquake that took place in 2010. She focussed her attention on an orphanage outside the capital of Port-au-Prince. From the stories she has told about the horrible living conditions

My Grandfather

November 24, 2010 How do I feel or how have I embraced the idea of being a part of a community of practice? Working together with a group of teachers in a common goal to use technology in education?

Being a part of the LTT program, I have come to again appreciate the value of education in a way that I have not felt since I was last in university. For almost the last decade, I have continued to learn how to refine my craft in teaching by researching, evolving, and collaborating with my fellow teachers. However, much of this learning takes place as an individual how can seek advice from other teachers whom I work with albeit in different subject areas. Being a member of the LTT Surrey cohort brings back memories of my Humanities and Social Justice Cohort as I trained to become a teacher at UBC. At the time, our goal or mandate was to learn how to become teachers who specialize in promoting critical thinking in ourselves and our students. In a way, I felt more empowered with a greater responsibility to help students become more reflective, active citizens who are able to survive in the changing world we live in. Now, as a member of LTT, I share that same responsibility in spreading our knowledge of using technology in an educational setting. I feel as if I have become more vocal and more involved in aiding teachers and students with technology enquiries around the school.

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Google Earth Tour as analogy to journey through TLITE, I mean LaTTE, I mean LTT

Leave Vancouver Visit somewhere new, curious, unknown, exciting, anticipation New York, or Macchu Pichu

Climbing a Mountain

Diving to great depths, Mariannas Trench

Finding support in others, somewhere populated and technological, ie. Tokyo

Coming home

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