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"Reflection is part of your work"

As someone who spent years journaling, I truly related to George Couros ' blog post on "Blogging".  In fact reading it made me want to resurrect this cathartic hobby that I neglected years ago.  The notion of using blogging as a means to grow as a professionals makes sense, yet because I only journaled in the context of expressing myself personally and emotionally this would be a slightly new and varied experience for me.    I am going to compare the values of journaling for personal reasons vs. for professional purposes.  I think that as I work this out through writing I will come to a clearer conclusion.  And isn't that just the philosophy George's blogging philosophy states!   My favourite line in his blog was "Before I started blogging, I would tend to be much more reactive than proactive.  By looking back, it was much easier to look forward". Yes!  This applies to anyone journaling about personal feelings OR writing about their pro
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Using Sway in a Grade 2 Classroom

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I first learned about Microsoft's SWAY at a summer Camp 21 Conference in Toronto about 4 years ago.  I remember a Grade 2 teacher presenting there on how her students used SWAY in the classroom and being super impressed.  I couldn't imagine myself using it let alone training a class full of 6 and 7 year olds on how to use it.  This teacher was using it as a platform for the students' projects.  It just seemed amazing to me that students were able to express themselves in this way and present their ideas in such a coherent and impressive manner! At this point in my career, ten years in, I had mainly had my students create pen to paper projects.  Perhaps at this point I had started to have my students dabble with the odd Pic Collage to enhance their work. But in any case, my relationship with Microsoft and technology in general was about to grow and improve my vision and practices as an educator! Once I started using SWAY a few years ago, I never looked back. I'd l
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