Welcome to this blog. I apologize for the re-route but the MentorMob does embed here. The experience was some learning for me...Each of the articles is "hot" - just click on it to head to the MentorMob.
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Anyway, some comments....
Now It's A Question of My Name - Aviva Dunsiger is moving away from Grade 1 next year and feels the need for a new name. I guess it's a comment on the need to choose your digital identity wisely when you get started. She can change it all she wants but she'll always be @Grade1 to many of us! I'm guessing that she went pretty conservatively three years ago when getting started, perhaps a little leary of putting herself out there. Now, she's a mainstay in the online world and provides advice online not only to Primary Teachers but learners of all ages. That's such a wonderful skill and she'll be terrific no matter what she chooses to do.
This I Believe - Royan Lee starts off some blog entries of deep personal thought. In a world of teacher bashing, egg throwing, second thoughts, negativity beyond our control, let's not forget those who put their heads down and just get the job done with the best interest of students in mind.
Just When You Think - If you don't think that teachers and schools make an enormous impact on the support of children, you need to read this post at least twice. Sadly, I've had similar experiences with both students and colleagues. Is there anyone among us who hasn't? Thanks for sharing, Brian. For those who view education purely as a business, how would a business have handled it?
What I Believe - Joan Vinall-Cox always makes me pause to think. In a recent post, she bares a few of her core beliefs. This is another post you need to read a couple of times. Could you share your thoughts in the same manner?
Supporting Active Play...and Parents - This was another post that made me stop and think as well. For as long as I've been a parent, I've been making decisions. If you poll my constituency, there were a lot of bad decisions rendered (at least at the time) Sheila Stewart reflects about choices made about child activity. I smiled when she mentioned making connections via smartphone during sports activity. Freezing my butt at 6am with a coffee in hand at the local arena or driving to Corunna to bake in the afternoon sun at a ball park formed some of the great experiences. There was no smartphone then. There were phone booths though! However, that wasn't the networking that was done; it was the other parents that made it enjoyable although you always kept one eye on the kids because you knew that talking about a goal or a hit was on the agenda on the drive home. But, one of us or usually both of us were there.
Supporting Active Play...and Parents - This was another post that made me stop and think as well. For as long as I've been a parent, I've been making decisions. If you poll my constituency, there were a lot of bad decisions rendered (at least at the time) Sheila Stewart reflects about choices made about child activity. I smiled when she mentioned making connections via smartphone during sports activity. Freezing my butt at 6am with a coffee in hand at the local arena or driving to Corunna to bake in the afternoon sun at a ball park formed some of the great experiences. There was no smartphone then. There were phone booths though! However, that wasn't the networking that was done; it was the other parents that made it enjoyable although you always kept one eye on the kids because you knew that talking about a goal or a hit was on the agenda on the drive home. But, one of us or usually both of us were there.
Bonus Post - I'm going to add one more in. On Thursday, I wrote a post about intersections and that inspired Peter Beens to share one of his own. The "Five Corners" in Niagara Falls looks to be deeply under construction in his image. But, he confirmed that StreetView is a resource to be brought up at the spur of the moment to support a thought. Peter has also enlightened me, in the past, that locals don't go anywhere near the places that my wife and I enjoy in the summer and during the Winter Festival. I just can't imagine not visiting Clifton Hill with it being that close!
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