Week Nine: It's over! It's finally over!

I've done it! I've survived! I am out of the classroom and into the...well, into another classroom.  But this time as a student teacher!  I can't wait to mentor under my old football coach Kevin Grindey.  He has me very excited with his ideas on inquiry based education.

It was a fitting end to the semester to watch all of our cheesy videos today.  This class has shared a lot of laughs since September and I cannot wait to hear about how this student teaching placement goes for everyone.  As I sit here I struggle to think of anything insightful to write as honestly I want to click publish and not think about class for five months or so.  In fact, I may do just that. I just finished my unpolished iteration of a web page that can be found here:

http://camtataryn.weebly.com/

I know a lot of work still has to be done on it but I am happy with the start.  It really reminded me that I have to work on a professional resume however.  I think I may really need one of those a year from now.

Mike, thank you so much for this class.  Your relaxed demeanour was a major help as the semester got stressful towards the end.  I look forward to building on these ICT skills next year hopefully under your tutelage.

Cheers,
Cameron Tataryn

Week Eight: Ain't nobody got time for a blog

We have three more evenings remaining to get done everything there is to do in this term.  Forgive me that this week my blog post is not receiving top priority.  This was still an interesting week in ICT however.  Carmen and I went to Kelsey's all day on Saturday to assemble our soon-to-be award winning masterpiece of a film.  I hadn't put together a crappy youtube video since high school so it was a refreshing change of pace to return to that.  It was made much easier as well by the fact that Kelsey is an expert video editor.  Though we split the responsibilities, Kelsey was far superior to Carmen and I when it came to that part.  She was an excellent resource to guide us along as well.  I hope everyone likes cats and cheesy explosions...

I am still interested in seeing how much the things I have learned in this class will affect my second teaching placement.  In Social Studies, I hope to have students on their phones or tablets as much as possible.  I've heard Vincent Massey does not have a favorable stance on cell phone use in the classroom but maybe I can sneak it in while administration isn't looking.  I feel that students can learn all of the biggest lessons Social Studies has to offer by accessing the news so hopefully I can incorporate that into each class.  I guess we'll see!

Anyway, I'm going to attempt a few hours of sleep since I don't see myself getting a whole lot of that throughout this week of due dates.  I hope everyone has a more relaxing week than I'm about to!