Good Morning,
I am a grade 3-8 band, music, science, outdoor ed, art, and occasionally robotics/programming teacher at a K-8 school just outside of Calgary. This is by 7/8th course in the ETEC program and I am also enrolled in ETEC 540 this term.
My ed-tech interests include efficiencies with technology, parent communication, virtual/augmented reality, gamification, and assessment through technology. I have limited webpage building skills, which I guess I’ll be growing this term, but have experience in game creation with a few different engines, basic programming, 360 image creation, and augmented reality creation. In the research methods course I prototyped a rhythm assessment program/tool using the scratch programming environment as well.
My entrepreneurial skills include budget management for our music program, fundraising/proposal writing, and selling people on ideas from 1-1 settings to 1-500+.
I chose to enroll in ETEC 522 because of the increasing roll expensive technologies are playing in our school. I am hoping that adding some savvy on the venture side will help me to better select technologies that won’t vanish or lose support and increase my ability to support school and district tech initiatives.
Outside of the ETEC world I ballroom dance, rock climb, camp and attempt to house train our new puppy (french bulldog-boston terrier mix).
