Human Understanding Changes Over Time

Well…what a year it has been. I mean that in the 2020 sense, and in the just over a year of being a part of the COETAIL course. Since starting COETAIL I’ve made cheese, learned how to use new tools, confronted my discomfort with filming and recording myself, and...

This is it: my final project

Photo by Aalok Atreya on Unsplash A picture is worth a thousand wordsAnonymous Sometimes, a powerful picture can read us. When I saw this photo today, I saw myself in between two worlds, before and after COETAIL. You can be surprised to hear that but it’s the way I...

Opportunities during an Inopportune Time

My friend and colleague, Alexa Stamatyades. Our extended Covid-19 trip took us to to see the quokkas in Australia because what better way to escape the world than to look at these cute furry creatures? When I created my original unit plan for this final project in...

Silver Linings

Back in January, things were looking pretty rosey. I was on track with the COETAIL final project, tech integration was growing at a fantastic rate in the classrooms, we were just about to start our digital citizenship program with grades 6 through 10, and I had done a...

Then & Now

So here we are, friends. The end of an arduous yet rewarding journey for COETAIL and the school year. The beginning of what will definitely be a new way of doing life and school in the months ahead. And as I sit down to write my final blog post for this course, I’m...