tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25880207493002032062024-03-13T16:59:27.381-05:00Chez HazeuThe home for ideas, resources, and odds & ends from all of Mr. Hazeu's classes.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076166168927519291noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-59537282746178577652016-04-08T14:21:00.000-05:002016-05-13T15:22:59.773-05:00Embedding Pictures with the WordPress iPad AppOne of the best ways to add visual interest to your blog and give credit to the creators of the content is to use Getty Images. If you download the Getty Images App on your iPad, you can search through hundreds of thousands of high quality images that you can embed for free.<br>
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Once you have tapped the "send" button, a pop-up window will appear with a variety of options (see below). Select the html button (</>).</div>
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Next you need to go to the WordPress app and start a new post or edit a draft. On the post interface there is an html button (see below).</div>
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Tapping the html button will change the look of the screen only slightly. You can tell that you are in html mode because the html button will be blue. Paste the html code that you copied from Gettys into this screen.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076166168927519291noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-4590583360183641762015-06-14T15:14:00.000-05:002015-06-14T15:14:06.391-05:00Learning in PicturesI've been working in some classes with visual and digital storytelling, so I'm going to express what I've been learning about mainly in pictures.<br />
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S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-35960481211869639472015-05-18T15:30:00.000-05:002015-05-18T15:30:07.405-05:00Gradual ReleaseLasting learning in school often involves the gradual release of responsibility which flows from:<br />
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In the process of reflecting on my own classroom use of this process, I started thinking about social media. All kinds of people use social media and there is a wide range of fluency among users of each medium. How many users of social media have had the opportunity to be instructed with a gradual release of responsibility? What kind mistakes and miscommunications could be avoided with more gradual release?<br />
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I'm not suggesting that the "teacher" has to be a school teacher, but certainly school is a logical place for some basic citizenship and literacy training, and social media are undeniably part of both of those categories. Such instruction would need to include <i>knowledge, skills/strategies, </i>and <i>attitudes/habits</i>. Perhaps activities like a school hashtag or student/staff/volunteer/teacher shared use of a school social media account would be part of the learning and practice. What do you think?S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-48701317345086240452015-05-09T10:52:00.000-05:002015-05-09T10:52:12.681-05:00Tomorrow's TextsDigital books are still in there infancy. I know they hardly seem like news, but the marketplace is still trying to figure out how digital books fit, and publishers, authors, and readers alike are still very much in conversation about how eBooks differ from traditional paper books.<br />
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I have been investigating the future of digital books at Calvin, and I've learned that the transition to eBooks is just starting and that it isn't going smoothly or easily. Textbook publishers, curriculum creators, and mass market publishers are all in different places and using different models to distribute their books. Some books are very interactive, while others are simply PDFs.<br />
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If a school would like to own thirty copies of a hardcover textbook that they can lend students, there isn't a problem. Try buying thirty digital copies of an interactive textbook, and you'll spend plenty of time just trying to explain to befuddled publishers what you want. Is it a conceptual problem? A technical issue? A money matter? Well, it seems all three are pretty significant factors, each shaping the future of books, libraries, and schools.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-67633487886300400232015-05-03T15:10:00.000-05:002015-05-03T15:10:17.423-05:00Breaking Cycles<div class="getty embed image" style="background-color: white; color: #a7a7a7; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; max-width: 507px; width: 100%;">
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Nature and nurture are common terms in any discussion of heredity. I've been learning about intergenerational trauma which should probably be included in more conversations involving heredity. The term, in simplistic form, refers to trauma that will have effects on multiple generations. This can be seen in many forms such as the fact that children who experience abuse or divorce are more likely to abuse their children or get divorced. At first this seems counter-intuitive, but it makes some sense when the behaviour is seen as taught or modelled (albeit unintentionally) by parents or role models. The effects are long lasting and can take generations to break the cycle and heal.<br />
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The definition falls under the <i>knowledge </i>category, but this learning is also about <i>attitudes/habits</i> as I consider my own parenting, teaching, or the past/current/future state of First Nations populations in Manitoba.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-55973883338092903472015-04-21T17:09:00.001-05:002015-04-21T17:09:19.855-05:00Sharing is Caring<div class="getty embed image" style="background-color: white; color: #a7a7a7; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; max-width: 507px; width: 100%;">
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The learning I share in this post isn't new in the strictest sense, but I have been considering it at deeper levels than ever before. I've been thinking about sharing, particularly the creation and distribution of digital media. Sharing is a fundamental community practice; there is no community without sharing.<br />
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The internet has made it so easy for individuals to participate in creating culture. We can share ideas and build community in a truly global way. It is amazing.<br />
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What I've learned recently is that while I have certainly developed my willingness to share, I still need to develop the practice of sharing. The practice of sharing is the part that actually helps the community (and me, too), so I have more learning to do in <i>attitudes/habits</i> and <i>skills/strategies</i> in order to become a more sharing (and caring) member of my communities.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18076166168927519291noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-76443775224997860152015-03-15T16:42:00.000-05:002015-03-15T16:42:48.240-05:00Caught, not TaughtHabits have always intrigued me. How do they form? What effects do they have? Can people break or acquire them?<br />
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Mr. Jeninga has advised to reflect on habits and then keep the good ones while trying to weed out the bad ones. It's helpful advice.<br />
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I like the saying, "Caught more then taught." It captures a truth that is difficult to recognize--sometimes we unintentionally learn things (ideas, habits, attitudes) just from being involved with certain people or situations. We've discussed this concept in Bible courses.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu" target="_blank">Pierre Bourdieu</a> was a French sociologist who articulated a complex idea about culture, habits, and attitudes called <i>habitus. </i>Habitus is an attempt to explain how forms and structures in our lives influence us. For example, how does the culture around us shape our individual and collective sense of beauty and attractiveness. How much are we as individuals really in control of what we find beautiful?<br />
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I'm interested in this idea as a teacher, as a Christian, as a father, and more because I'd like to be more aware and have a greater influence on the structures, the habitus that shape us. I'm hoping that greater awareness will lead to greater and more effective teaching, learning, and living.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-61237105554626460232015-03-05T12:25:00.002-06:002015-03-05T12:25:26.449-06:00Using Google SearchThis week I learned about several Google search techniques, including operators. Search operators are placed in a search window as part of a search in order to filter results. For example, the operator <i>site:</i> limits results to the domain name. If you type, "site:blogger.com organic gardening" into the google search box, the results returned will be limited to blogger.com.<br />
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This can be helpful for research in school. Searching in general for "medical marijuana" while researching for a class debate will give you many results (26.2 million) with a wide variety of quality and usefulness. Using the operator <i>site:</i> to search "site:.gov medical marijuana" will return a smaller number of results (121, 000) and they will all be from government websites which will likely be better sources for your debate or research projects.<br />
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NOTE* Do not use a space after the colon when using the operator, or it will not work.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-3411403574062826732015-02-25T12:37:00.000-06:002015-05-18T15:31:22.554-05:00Giving CreditOver the last few years I've been thinking about copyright and intellectual property. I haven't been thinking about it a stop-students-from-cheating kind of way (although that is an important element). Mainly I've been wondering about how to act with integrity and honour creators and their work. The internet has really complicated issues of copyright. This video gives one weird but not so uncommon example:<br />
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Like John Green, I want to honour the work of other people, but I'm not always convinced that not sharing the work of other artists is the best way to do this. My own example involves a dance recital for my kids. I recorded some of their performance in order to share it with some family members who live in other countries and who miss the small pleasures of family growing up. I uploaded the videos to YouTube with a semi-private setting, but within two days, YouTube removed one of the videos because someone complained that the music excerpt the kids were dancing to was copyright protected. I'm not upset with YouTube, but I wonder how the artist would feel about the situation. Is the artist being honoured or his/her livelihood being protected by preventing dancers from using their music or me from sharing it?<br />
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Technically I haven't shared anything that I've learned, and this is a learning log, so here is a video by John's brother Hank (you can check them out on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGaVdbSav8xWuFWTadK6loA" target="_blank">vlogbrothers</a>) explaining some of what I've learned about copyright and how the internet is forcing us to change the way we think about intellectual property.<br />
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This week I was thinking about listening and was intrigued by an idea from <a href="https://twitter.com/gcouros" target="_blank">George Couros</a> and his thinking about <a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/5083" target="_blank">facilitating change in schools</a>. He suggests that too often people think about the ultimate goal and try to convince everyone to leap to that goal asap. This isn't always an effective approach because different people may be in very different places in relation to that goal. Listening to people and discovering where they are in relation to the goal is an important first step in facilitating change. Different people will require different next steps on the journey toward a share goal.<br />
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I am working on improving listening skills and striving to make some changes, so Mr. Couros's advice is a helpful blending of the two right when I need it most.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-86530890622977002722015-02-13T09:57:00.000-06:002015-02-13T09:57:46.253-06:00Averages Can Be MeanOver the last two years I've been exploring the problems and drawbacks of grading and assessment practices in school. One of the controversial elements of school, especially in high school, is the practice of assigning one number (a percentage) as a grade in a course. This number is typically an average of all the smaller percentage marks on assignments.<br />
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Using the average, or mean, of all the assignments doesn't necessarily tell an accurate story of what a student can do at the end of the course because it keeps remembering the early learning stages when the student's skills and marks were lower. A student who can consistently perform at a high level at the end of the semester, shouldn't be punished by the learning process early in the semester.<br />
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Mode can help tell a clearer story. Mode is the number that appears most often in a range of numbers. If a student begins the semester with C's and B's in a certain skill set, but over time masters that skill and regularly earns A's, mode would select A for a mark because it appears most often. Theoretically, this method would communicate a student's abilities more clearly. Of course, it is only one small part of helping improve communication.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-20978237364882840452015-02-06T09:51:00.000-06:002015-02-07T15:59:25.348-06:00LA Comp Learning Log<div class="getty embed image" style="background-color: white; color: #a7a7a7; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; max-width: 506px; width: 100%;">
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Our LA Comp class is keeping a weekly learning log this semester, and I'm sharing my learning here. The big categories we are focusing on are <i>Knowledge, Skills/Strategies, </i>and<i> Habits/Attitudes</i>.<br />
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I have been learning about spreadsheets, most recently about IMPORTRANGE. It is a formula that allows information to be imported from one source into another. For example, in my case, I have a spreadsheet that I use as a grade book. It contains a separate sheet or tab for each student in class. I would like students to see this grade book, but if I share the spreadsheet with Student A, then Student A can see the entire spreadsheet, including every other student's grades.<br />
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IMPORTRANGE allows me to create a new spreadsheet for Student A and then import only the assignments and grades for Student A from my grade book spreadsheet into Student A's personal spreadsheet. The best part is that once the formula is set up, any changes I make in my grade book are automatically updated in Student A's personal spreadsheet. Cool, huh!<br />
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If you're interested in the details, leave a comment and I'll send you a link to get you started.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-69296929379806661282014-05-03T14:35:00.004-05:002014-05-05T11:30:08.205-05:00School, Anxiety, and the Yo-Yo<div style="background-color: white; color: #a7a7a7; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">
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What does yo-yoing have to with school and learning? What is the point of these passion projects? I could write a lot in answer to these questions, but I'll try to stick to one point for this post. Passion projects help remind us that <span style="background-color: yellow;">the learning process involves mistakes</span>.<br />
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No one picks up a yo-yo and expects to perform amazing tricks flawlessly on the first try. Rookies with a yo-yo expect to try and fail many times before they successfully perform a trick, and even after they perform it, they are not surprised or devastated if they don't nail it every time they attempt it. Often we seem to take a much different approach to learning in school.<br />
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Sometimes (often?) in school we fear mistakes, forgetting that they are an integral part of learning. There are many reasons for this, and I don't want to get into them all at the moment, but I think it is clear that fear of mistakes exist in school and that this fear often gets in the way of learning. Recognizing this is an important step to removing fear as an obstacle.<br />
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Notice that I said, "removing fear as an <i>obstacle, </i>not removing fear entirely. Learning something new almost always comes with some fear, but that fear doesn't need to prevent you from learning if you recognize it as a normal part of the process. If we can embrace experimentation and mistakes as part of learning in school in the same way we do when learning a skill like yo-yoing, then the quality and quantity of our learning will great improve.<br />
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Think about times in your life when you've been nervous to try something, but you did it anyway and experienced something great. You jumped off the high dive, learned to ride a motorcycle, uncovered a love for art or geometry, discovered the scrumptiousness of sushi. Want another example? Check out <a href="http://sarahtiel.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-yoyo-club.html" target="_blank">Sarah's success</a> in overcoming anxiety and finding new and improved learning as she practices the ancient art of yo-yoing. Anxiety, mistakes, and nerves are part of doing almost anything worthwhile. Understanding, and even embracing, them will help ensure that you learn, persevere, and succeed.<br />
<br />S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-80629015958482406592014-04-28T20:35:00.001-05:002014-04-28T20:35:19.973-05:00Mentorship<iframe frameborder="0" height="411" scrolling="no" src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/85308899?et=ryMeg8GkTmFSuI29KMtSeQ&SeoLinks=off&sig=IlrHZF3sZgXOksRr3m3EGy1lV4WGX1gx_99LIjrK1eQ=" style="display: inline-block;" width="484"></iframe><br />
Some of the finest relationships in my life have been mentorships--both as the mentor and the protégée. The potential for all kinds of quality learning is almost limitless in a well-developed mentorship. Social skills, hands-on skills, theory--can all be enhanced and personalized by a mentor. Accountability and motivation are also increased by such a relationship.<br />
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But don't take my word for it; check out what your peers have to say:<br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Kristiana (my cousin) gave me lots of tips and instructions that helped solidify what I had seen on tutorials. I realized that there is only so much you can learn from a video, eventually you need someone to answer your questions and talk you through it... </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">She's a great example for me of someone who has excelled in their instrument because of the time and effort she has put into it."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">--Naomi K: <a href="http://musicfor1ife.blogspot.ca/2014/04/skype-saves-day.html" target="_blank">Skype Saves the Day</a></span><br />
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"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">One thing that has become very clear to me recently is the importance of having someone who has a lot of knowledge of what you're learning and knows what they are talking about. Whether it's an instrument or really anything else... </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Daniel was able to give pointers to a few different people...who had been playing a lot longer than me. Some had even learnt lies from the internet just like me. Luckily Daniel was there to correct them and even luckier, he'll always be there to correct me. His knowledge and natural musical talent will be very crucial in the success of my passion project."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">--Brianna H: <a href="http://bhorch.blogspot.ca/2014/04/much-knowledge-very-guitar-so-music-wow.html" target="_blank">Much Knowledge, Very Guitar, So Music, Wow</a></span><br />
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Need a little help? Blogger is fairly user-friendly, but the help centre is fairly basic and relies on text. If you prefer to actually see your question answered, you can always ask me or a friend in class, but now there's a third option--the <a href="http://mrhazeu.blogspot.ca/p/test_24.html" target="_blank">How-To Links</a> page on Chez Hazeu.<br />
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At the moment I've included simple videos about the most common request, creating pages, but if there are other how-to videos that you would find helpful, please, make a suggestion in the comments section of this post.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-8998675425107648302013-12-21T13:31:00.000-06:002014-11-17T09:56:02.729-06:00Passion in Action<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Many of you are participating in a passion project for class, and some of those projects are things that you'd be doing anyway, even if no course credit was involved. I love that. All of us work and play outside of school--passionately I hope. We've been discussing the intersection of talent, passion, and faith, and how these things can move beyond theory and into practice. Well, here's my example: <i>The Cycle of Giving</i>.<br />
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<i>The Cycle of Giving</i> is a yearly event put on by <a href="http://thewrench.ca/" target="_blank">The WRENCH</a> (Winnipeg Repair, Education, and Cycling Hub) that brings together volunteers to reclaim bikes from the landfill, rebuild them, and give them to community children for Christmas. You can read about this year's event in the Free Press, <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/dreaming-of-a-bike-christmas-235978271.html?slide=4&slideshowNum=1&slideshow=235963371&slideshowPath=/multimedia/fp-slideshow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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I'm an amateur bike mechanic. Learning to repair and build my own bikes started as a personal passion project and has developed into a handy skill and a lifestyle/hobby. So, it was cool and humbling to rub shoulders with so many other mechanics, most of whom were far more skilled than I am. I'm still learning.<br />
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My faith includes a deep concern for people and the communities we live in, including the state of our environments, both urban and global. <i>The Cycle of Giving</i> allowed me to combine my talent, passion, and faith. I helped prevent 900 bikes from ending up in the landfill. Children (250+ children!) received bikes for Christmas and a connection to a local bike program. I worked with people from a variety of faiths and worldviews with whom I had at least one common connection, a starting point for relationship and community.<br />
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Call it community-building or earth-keeping; call me an image-bearer or a mechanic in God's kingdom. Call it what you like, but it is what a life of faith is about--using the passion and talents God has given to improve relationships, communities, and the environment in His name. It was a blessing to be a small part of it, and I pray the blessings will spread exponentially through the families and their communities.<br />
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S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-14354109329474369982013-12-08T16:30:00.001-06:002013-12-08T16:31:51.870-06:00Inspired and Inspiring ProjectsThis first round of passion projects has been a learning process for all of us, so I thought I'd start this post (my first in a long time) with some quotes that are inspiring me.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Have you ever realized that it sometimes doesn't matter how much you feel like doing something? Sometimes, you're just not that great at it. But...greatness requires practice." ~<a href="http://bryannedpassionproject.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Bryanne</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">"If any of you fellow people have heard of the magic school bus, you would know Mrs. Frizzle always says </span><b style="line-height: 22px;">"Get messy, take chances, make mistakes!" </b><span style="line-height: 22px;">and that's what I want to do." ~<a href="http://hannahgracephotography21.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Hannah</a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Learning involves mistakes and practice. Education is a messy business, filled with winding paths and false starts as we find ways to learn and grow. However, it sometimes feels like mistake is a bad word in school, so bad that things like play, brainstorm, and experiment have also become risky instead of fun and full of potential to learn. Based on several of your projects, Hannah, Bryanne, and many more of you have not completely forgotten that messy mistakes can sometimes be great discoveries if you're paying attention.<br />
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If you've been a slow starter when it comes to your passion project, take heart. Learn from your mistakes. Don't let fear of failure keep you from starting or restarting. Start. Don't know where you're going? Don't worry. When it comes to learning, the journey is just as important as the destination. Take the first step. Start.<br />
<br />S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-91412814676573184882013-09-10T10:58:00.000-05:002013-09-10T10:58:07.477-05:00Check Out Our Wall<iframe src='http://padlet.com/embed/n24mdi7zqa' frameborder='0' width='100%' height='480px' style='padding:0;margin:0;border:none'></iframe><div style='border-top:2px solid #a7d23a;padding:8px;margin:0;font-size:12px;text-align:right'><a href='http://padlet.com' style='color:#41555f;text-decoration:none'>Created with Padlet<img valign='middle' style='margin:0 0 0 10px;padding:0;border:none;width:16px;height:16px' src='http://padlet.com/favicon.ico'></a></div>
This is a live look at a Padlet wall that we will use for exit slips and questions throughout the semester. Bookmark the link for easy access. padlet.com/wall/cccbibleS. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-70775830039566786962013-09-03T20:50:00.001-05:002013-09-04T05:58:21.446-05:00Welcome Back!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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School is back! Maybe that excites you; maybe that scares you, but ready or not here comes the 2013/2014 school year, the launching pad of the class of 2014.<br />
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I'm excited (and a wee bit scared) about so many of the plans for the year, and I'll need plenty of help--from God and from you--to bring them to life.</div>
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This blog is a growing hub of information and resources that will support our learning. It's a work in progress designed to challenge, inspire, and support your growth and education. So, welcome, and prepare yourself because this year I'm not simply going to hand you the steering wheel; I'm going to chuck the wheel out the window, and we're going to re-imagine this ride called school. Buckle up! <span style="font-size: x-small;">(see class for details)</span></div>
S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-24594911858648555252013-05-01T09:11:00.001-05:002013-05-01T09:24:37.412-05:00Poetry from Literary Focus
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<span lang="EN-GB">the past five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You open gifts and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">your eyes twinkle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yes!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Together, on your birthday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">we embrace today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My learning log this week looks at assessment. I've learned that a single percentage grade that comes from me alone is not an adequate response to the work you've done, even if it is accompanied by comments. You deserve better and more frequent feedback from a greater number of sources. Your blogs have provided some of this, but we can do better. Your voice must be a more important factor in the assessment process, both individually and collectively. I'm learning about how to make these ideas a reality in our classes.<br />
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Below I've included an excerpt of a course description from one of <a href="http://ideasandthoughts.org/" target="_blank">Dean Shareski</a>'s classes. He's a professor at the University of Regina. Some of his students determine eighty percent of their mark. You can check out the entire sample, but I'd really like some feedback on one section: Social Learning. I'm really invested in community building, as you know, so this section really resonates with me and seems important. I also think it is undervalued and underrepresented in our assessment at school.<br />
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Here's where you come in. I'd like some feedback on the social learning section. What are your reactions to having part of your mark depend on how you benefitted from and contributed to the learning of others? Can you think of specific things you've learned from someone else in your class this semester? Have you contributed to anyone else's learning? Please, leave your thoughts in the comments section below.<br />
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A simple summary and assessment about the quality, consistency and timeliness of your work. Grade yourself between 20-30% percent of the course.</div>
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This will be a challenging one for some of you but the core of this will be your interview with your mentoring teacher. I would like a report that highlights your involvement as well. Grade yourself between 20-30%</div>
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This will be a media presentation of your learning. We’ll talk more about the format of this next week. This will be the only assignment that I’ll grade exclusively. You decide between its value between 10-20%</div>
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S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-63902902210045533532013-04-21T17:22:00.000-05:002013-04-27T12:48:35.180-05:00What's My Motivation?I'm in the middle of learning about motivation. During the last year or two I've had some success implementing principles of motivation promoted by Dan Pink, who writes and speaks about motivation. The video below is familiar to some of you; it demonstrates that autonomy, mastery, and purpose are far better motivators than incentives (like money or marks) in many cases.<br />
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Your passion projects are one example of success in my expanding knowledge of motivation. For several of you, choosing your own projects and improving skills involved with those projects has proven to be very motivating. You are working hard, spending time outside of school, and learning with more joy and interest. I'm thrilled.</div>
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However, in other instances, work is not being completed. I have set up novel studies in a variety of ways that include student choice and voice, but a majority of students don't complete the necessary reading. I'm stumped.</div>
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There are parallels in my own learning. My desire to help next year's 1:1 iPad project succeed motivated me to learn new skills, ask new questions about teaching, attend meetings, collaborate with others, and generally spend more of my discretionary time on work. That's the power of autonomy, mastery, and purpose. But, recently I completed mid-term reports, and while I understand the importance of this work, I put off some of the marking and preparation for reports in order to pursue more interesting work. Only the looming deadline motivated me to shift gears and get the less pleasant work done. Deadlines (and the potential consequences of missing them) are motivating.</div>
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So, while I have expanded my understanding of motivation, I have more to learn, particularly about the application of motivation theory. My latest thought is that we all have a unique ratio of freedom and restriction that will optimize our motivation--a personal motivation profile. Personally I am more productive when I'm aware of my own motivation profile; as an educator I need to have a clearer picture of the motivation profiles of the learners in class so that I can help them maximize their learning. I'm scratching the surface of an idea that I'm sure has been studied by many sharper minds. I plan to discover what these giants have to say, and then maybe I'll be able to stand on their shoulders and see a little bit farther.</div>
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S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-28658142645532984822013-04-14T20:29:00.000-05:002013-04-14T20:29:15.084-05:00A Beautiful Blend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week collaboration ruled. I'm determined to make our iPad pilot project a success next year, so I'm learning and doing all I can to ensure that vision becomes reality, including trying out all kinds of stuff with our class (backchannel anyone?). I've traded and tested ideas and questions with someone in almost every role in the school this week: technicians, teachers, administrators, students, parents, support staff. It's an impressive list really.<br />
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What did I learn? A group made up of different people with different talents and perspectives who can disagree about plenty but who also have a common goal will create something great. In fact, they will be more likely to create something great than any individual because, together, they possess more talent and experience than any one person (as long as they find ways to work together). This idea isn't new to me, but this week I got my hands very dirty, working with so many people, and I learned about collaboration in a deeper way than ever before. Thanks for being part of the blending. <br />
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Two events this week really underlined something I've been thinking about for several months.<br />
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The first was a recognition of some recent growth and learning. In December I decided that I needed to improve my knowledge of and proficiency with technology. I had been working through some teaching ideas, and I began to see that technology could help those ideas take shape. This week, after several months of learning, some people I typically relied on for help with tech asked me for some advice about tech. Suddenly I saw how much I had learned. I'll still need their help, but the fact that I could help them in this area allowed me to understand and reflect on how much I've learned. Still much to learn.<br />
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The second was listening to Mélina deliver her progress report (thanks again for the treat, Mélina). She's excitedly talking (not unusual) about her adventures in the kitchen, relaying how her vlog was photobombed, and confessing that only a little more than half of her cake pops avoided imploding. She's reporting this with a smile--without a hint of embarrassment or failure--because she's <i style="font-weight: bold;">learning</i>. Typically in school, a student who made almost as many mistakes in a class she did correct moves would not be smiling when the bell rang. But Mélina was too busy learning to let mistakes get her down.<br />
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These two experiences came together when I saw the simple drawing above. I know I've written about mistakes in an earlier post, but these two experiences didn't focus on mistakes; they focused on success. When I reflected on my recent forays into technology, I saw many "mistakes". Mélina described a few mistakes. However, in both situations, I only heard a story of success. At least for a moment, both Mélina and I so fully embraced the version of success as rendered in the drawing on the right, that we simply accepted failure as part of the learning process--a necessary part of the process.<br />
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This week I learned more thoroughly to embrace the word fail as F.ound A.nother I.nsight for L.earning. It's cheesy, I know, but seeing the principle in action this week was almost as sweet as that Skor bar cake pop.S. Hazeuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01531329573282170697noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2588020749300203206.post-11560357349045800512013-03-12T11:54:00.000-05:002013-03-12T11:54:50.355-05:00TEDx ManitobaThis is a quick post to send you the link for the application to be part of the TEDx Manitoba Youth event. Click <a href="http://tedxyouthfortgarry.ca/attendees/" target="_blank">here</a> to apply. If you are unfamiliar with TED, it's an organization that organizes conferences around the concept, "ideas worth spreading." Check out TED.com for some great videos of TED talks.<br />
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