A concept I chose to focus in on a bit this week was intonation. Being “in tune” is referred to when playing with others but because I am playing by myself, good intonation is what I’m after. Being a flute player, I am no stranger to good and bad intonation. Flute is a hard instrument…
Pictures by Amy Simons Today we were lucky enough to get to have a tour of The Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII)! It was a fun field trip and was nice to get out into the community to explore other education avenues. Everyone we talked to during our visit welcomed us and was…
For this week’s Pro D Day session, I attended the Black Canadian Learning Resource zoom for grades 6-9. There were many great resources presented in the resource that could be used in my future classes. Black representation is something that has definitely been lacking in my education throughout my whole life so I found this…
A new tool I explored this week was Obsidian. It is an app that organizes notes and to do lists and can be used for personal or professional uses. I think this is a great tool to help stay organized. It is nice to have all notes in one place. As someone who uses to…
This week I spent time starting to learn a few new tunes! While they are by no means performance ready yet, it was still fun to get a start on them. Some of the pieces I chose definitely are above my playing level but are some of my favourite tunes so it’s hard to stop…
AI is something that I’ve found myself having a hard time agreeing on. Personally, I have found it near impossible to look past the negative environmental impacts that AI warehouses pose in terms of energy and water consumption. Through Instagram posts and Tik Tok reels I was led to believe that the impacts of AI…
Since the age of about 8 year old, I have been surrounded by fiddle music. I grew up playing piano in my local youth fiddle group for a total of 10 years. Because of this, I have always had an itch to learn fiddle myself but never really had the time between learning other instruments…
Here is my first attempt at screen casting! Here I show how to create a new Pinterest board or collage. I was able to add a few interactions with H5P.http:// This is a tool that I think would make for a fun and interactive for many different grades and subjects. For my specific subject being…
By Kaleb Tapp https://unsplash.com/photos/building-near-trees-during-day-1deQbU6DhBg Do we need to reimagine education? Education has seemed to change very little in the near past and I think it is time for a change. We are not trying to mold students into a certain box so that they will be a good factory worker anymore. The world of education…
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