Whether it’s at school, at home or on the road, we love capturing memories and taking photos. We also enjoy doing some photo editing to make our pictures as beautiful as possible. Here are 3 of our favourite photo editing apps: Adobe Lightroom Photo Editor Our top pick is free to download on your Apple […]
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Guest: Sarah Harrison Sarah Harrison is a globe-trotting teacher who loves to travel. This Manitoban educator is currently teaching in an international boarding school in England. She recently completed her Master of Education degree. In this episode, we talk about what it’s like to teach (and live) in a boarding school and her recommendations for
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Tech Tidbit: Turn off your email notifications on your phone to reduce distractions and break your email-checking habit. ✉ We’ve been sharing about habits lately as we prepare to read Atomic Habits for our next book club. I was guilty of mindlessly checking my email on my phone WAY TOO MUCH. I was reading Marie
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On the anniversary of Leah’s year of daily meditation, yoga, and journaling, the Kenton girls discuss all things habits and routines. In this episode, you’ll learn more about developing new habits, tools and strategies for habit-tracking, and the girls’ best tips for success. Devon and Leah also share their favourite books on habits and routines
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It’s back to school here in Manitoba and we’re excited to have students return to school! We’re also feeling the strains of teaching during a pandemic and looking for creative solutions given the current situation we’re facing in education. If you love fun and engaging hands-on activities, but you’re not sure how that will look
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I’ve been asked to co-host the June #MicrosoftEduChat TweetMeet on the topic of evolving remote learning. I’ve been working with a team of global educators to plan the chat and reflect on this topic. To me, evolving remote learning means changing, improving and growing our practice to make remote learning as successful as possible. There
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In the last few days your world has turned totally upside down. You went from ordinary school days of planning, teaching and interacting with students to reminding kids to wash their hands to finding out your school will be closed. You watched as students trickled out of your classrooms heading home to stay safe from a pandemic none of us could’ve imagined.
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This collaborative blog has been quiet for quite some time now. Devon and I have continued to work together, but recently we’ve both been focused on post-secondary studies and haven’t dedicated time to this platform for sharing our ideas. Since September 2016, I have been working on my Master’s Degree in Education part time, while
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If you haven’t yet checked out the Pigeon Project, read about our latest learning adventures here and hop over to my classroom blog Mrs. Obach’s Class blog to see some wonderful student-authored books that my class has recently published! (If you’re up for a romantic story, read “The Pigeon Finds a Girlfriend” Or perhaps you
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What an exciting day in the HES Grade 1 room! One of our division technicians visited our room today to set up an Xbox Kinect. We only had a short time at the end of the day to try it out, but we are REALLY excited to use the XBox in our classroom. To get
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