Lifelong learning, one reflection at a time.
Continued from the middle of the end of the beginning. I’ve blathered on for long enough, and I did it so you know that this went wrong a lot before it went okay. Even now, check the punctuation in my video’s text. It is laughable. Will I be an instructional coach at Rosseau Lake College? […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Continued from the beginning of the end of the beginning. I was stuck with a screenshot of what I had created in Garage Band, and this did not capture the essence of the song I had written nor what my Cohort 21 action plan has thus far entailed. I thought about linking directly to the […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Microsoft PowerPoint was first released in 1987 (Wikipedia, 2019a). The original slide deck software, PowerPoint revolutionized presentations everywhere, freeing us from the trials and tribulations of drawing, or even worse, photocopying, onto transparencies. As a testament to their significance in communication, the form and features of myriad slide deck programs remain similar to this day. […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink (buy it) was released nearly ten years ago in 2009. I first learned about it from educators on Twitter and it was one of my summer reads in 2015. If you want to know where I took what I learned from it back when […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
having the opportunity to connect with other Ontario educators and hearing about their triumphs and struggles. Now I know they are not so different from my own. I had more time to compare teaching notes by chatting face-to-face with other Ontario educators. Everyone is concentrating on writing. if it is possible to have a face-to-face […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
Step 1: Back when we were all riding high on the good vibes of our first face-to-face encounter I was sure that the urgent needs of the learners in my charge boiled down to skills development: problem solving, resiliency, and making connections. The inability of students to troubleshoot problems with their own computers stood large […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
When a school sends one of their teachers to Cohort 21 as a participant they may not know what to expect to gain from it. Is it professional development for the educator, their department members, the whole faculty, or all of the above? I have agreed to share what I learn with my colleagues at […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
I shared a fairly personal example of a professional failure at the first Cohort 21 face to face session. If you were there you will possibly remember it, so the purpose of this blog post is not to rehash what has already been said. I wouldn’t want that in writing anyway. I want to talk […]
Written by Leslie Farooq
