The+Leaf's+Journey

Thoughts, Feelings, Reflections, Hopes, Dreams So these are my thoughts and feelings about the Peer Coaching journey over the last 18 months. It has been a roller coaster of ups and downs, success and failure.

I can honestly say that I enjoyed using the new programs that were introduced at the week long session in Winnipeg. I have used photostory in my own life, as it is an enjoyable, user friendly application. We have attempted to increase our technology use in the school and have succeeded in small ways.

On the other hand, technology in our school is a constant source of frustration that has led to very little being accomplished in our peer coaching plan.

As I am writing this now, I have been attempting to upload a wordle image that I created to represent my feelings about this process. As I have attempted to do this for the 500th (okay actually the 5th) time I am blocked by firewalls. I start to feel better about this and then... BAM.... blocked again.



So this picture here (uploaded from my own laptop on my own internet.... school still blocking this upload) is a wordle cloud that sums up my feelings of Peer Coaching so far. Enjoy:)

I wonder if any of you would have similar words in your word cloud to express your overall feelings? If you can think of anymore words that should be added to this word cloud please share.

For the Future

For the future of peer coaching in my school I feel that I wuold need: 1. Access to working technology 2. Release time for teachers to work with them on their technology goals 3. Less stringent firewall settings (using google earth and other resources would be nice) 4. More time in the day.... 24 hours just isn't enough :)

Staff & Student Success

<range type="comment" id="803950">Working with grade 1/2 class to make photo books about a story they made. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working on a grant with SSC to get an Ipad for autistic students. The apps that are out there are great. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Working with Hans Arnold to have a photography course for high school students. They took some amazing photo's. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Being involved in the process of adding additional technology in our school. This can be frustrating... but I'll stick with it.