As an Educator, we sign up as life long learners, people whom transfer knowledge, trades, manners and employable skills to those that was within our schools and classrooms. Walking into my 10th year of teaching I am still learning, but also beginning to master the art of mentoring. I love receiving our ‘Professionally Speaking’ magazine Read More…
CodeBreaker Rocks!!
Oh boy, finally have a wee little time to finally do this… I was incredibly excited to hear that; The One, The Only, Crazy Rockstar Educator Brian Aspinall wrote a fantastic book called; Code Breaker!! Also for those of you whom do not know he has a Tweetmeet tomorrow at 9 am EST at #CodeBreaker, Read More…
#MSFTIncludEd; The Future…
Well, its that time again…I was hoping some inspirational would have occurred to launch into this blog from the Olympics, but something else caught my eye a bit…the Florida School Shooting….inspirational, I think not, sad? Yes, could have been prevented? Without a shadow of doubt! So, #Launching (this will be explained in a bit) into Read More…
#MSFTIncludEd (Present) Inclusion
So, being that we are working within February a fantastic month for inclusive education as we also have the accessibility / inclusiveness embedded within the 2018 Olympic Winter Games too. I was watching the new on TV this morning and Tom Renney (Hockey Canada’s President) and he was congratulating and setting up for the announcement Read More…
#MSFTInclusED Reflection Upon the Past with Inclusive Ed.
February is one of my favourite months of the year, report cards go out…get a little relief and some new units, inquiries, experiments and whatnot going within the classroom. Just that first rejuvenation, and or breath of new fresh air is a relief….not to mention the days get a little longer as the sun begins Read More…
#CodeBreaker Tweetmeet…
Well I wish I could say I was surprised….but as always Brian Aspinall never let us down! If you do not already follow Brian I would highly suggest it, you can do so here https://twitter.com/mraspinall Within his twitter handle you can also find links to his website which contains endless resources, videos, blog postings etc…as well! After Read More…
Write to Give…
Here we are now into the first week of Write to Give. This year I have again taken on the Ambassador role and devised, pulled together a dynamite team of educators in Maureen Richardson, Kristine Hollaway, Johnathan So and our reading / coding buddies classroom for the illustrations. As, the last couple years; this year Read More…
My 2018 Bucket List
One of the people I follow via twitter; Adam Dovico posted this blog posting http://bit.ly/ on his 18 Bucket List items for 2018! I thought this was awesome, so jumping on Adam’s bandwagon here is my 18 2018 Bucket List Items in no particular order! Use Flipgrid more and more at home on my own and with Read More…
My #OneWord for 2018
Wow, so hard thinking of just #OneWord…being a father of three (7 year old son, and 5 year old twin gals), husband and Volunteering Fire Fighter, not to mention a full time 5/6 teacher (new to junior division even….) one word is tough to decide upon. So, something that I always strive to tackle is Read More…
75 Years of Port Dover Minor Hockey history…but, so much more!
So, this weekend marks the 75th anniversary of Port Dover Minor Hockey and the Great; Red Kelly’s homecoming at the local rink. In August, I recall a call out to all Port Dover Alumni Players to be part of this big day in November. At the time I originally thought; ‘Hey this could be fun Read More…
