Merry Christmas!

So I’m just about to go to bed and I’m thinking that I had better write a post on here before tomorrow as I am leaving for Calgary and am not sure if I will have the opportunity to post for about a week so, Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year to all!! Hope you have all been good and Santa brings you what you asked for!

Two More

Only two more sleeps until Christmas and visiting the family in Calgary and having a great time in Banff!! I am very excited to see my friends and family that live in Alberta again and I’m really kinda hoping that it’s not as cold there as it is here cause, frankly, I think that I am ready for spring already. But that is probably just my inner Michaels employee talking as we got our first shipment of spring stock last Thursday and we have had Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s Day stuff in the back for just about a week now!! Sometimes I think that retail is WAY to far ahead of themselves!!!

Straight No Chaser

Here is a great Christmas video I found on YouTube from the same group who sang the Facebook song:

Five Days!

Well there are only five days until Christmas and I must say that I am pretty pumped! My family is going to Calgary to visit our family and friends which should be a really good time!

Oh! I changed my minor!! Yay!! No more taking science classes for me! (As you can tell, I’m a little bit excited!! Haha!)

All Done!

So I have officially completed my first semester of university, YAY!!! I wrote my last final this morning and now all i have left to do is wait for my marks to come in. I must admist i dont’ think that i did too badly but i know that it definitely was not my best effort this semester but i fully intend to step it up for the next one! Now there is only one thing on my mind…..CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

One More!!

So everything has been going great lately, I only have one more final and I am officially done my Christmas shopping leaving only the wrapping of the presents to be done. I don’t think that I have ever been this organized during the holiday season and, quite frankly, I’m impressed with myself!

One down, three to go

Well I have officially finished my first university final…and the outcome should be interesting! Haha! Well here’s to hoping I feel better about the next ones!!!

Crazy Christmas Lights

I found this video and thought it was a very fitting and interesting Christmas video. Enjoy!!

Final Project

Here is the video that we made for our final project!

Mentorship Reflection

    The Mentorship project was very intriguing for me. I found that I had difficulties commenting on the Consumer Math class as I had never taken any classes like that when I was in high school and therefore found it difficult to connect some of the concepts. When the calculus classes were added, however, I was happy as I also took the Calculus AP in high school and could relate to the concepts and challenges of taking a university level course in high school. The only problem that I found in reading their daily posts was that the students commonly explained the content so adequately that I could not think of anything that I could comment and therefore I only made a couple of comments to the blog although I read it on a regular basis. I found that for the BOB posts, it was difficult to make comments on them because I was commonly only able to read them the day of the test or even after the test had already taken place. I fully intend to continue to follow the Calculus AP class as I have experienced the stress and reliefs of writing the exam which is issued by the College Board in May and want to be able to help them anticipate some of the questions that may arise while they are studying.

I see having a daily blog with scribes for each class to be a very effective tool within the classroom. Not only does this help any students who may have not been in attendance for the class due to illnesses etc. but it also allows the students to learn in the most effective way: teaching. At first a blog for calculus seemed was confusing for me as I was unable to see how they would demonstrate the many techniques used in problems and various questions but through the tools such as SlideShare, the students were able to make well-explained posts that could help their peers to remember the content. I would definitely use this technique especially in an English or History class as I see it would work very well as a weekly writing assignment or great way to incorporate technology into the classroom and have the students reflect on literature or the daily discussions and/or activities in the classroom.