book.and.bloom

For my final project I will be developing my virtual assembly plans for the remainder of the school year. I have already started on this journey since January and every month I try to build on the previous month’s success while pushing my comfort zone and learning new skills along the way. My audience for my final project is split into three groups. All will benefit but in different ways: https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/teacher-cartoon Staff: One of my audiences is the staff. Since COVID has robbed us of the ability to gather together I find it challenging to try to showcase a different technique or digital tool. In fact, I find it difficult to even know who needs support or where their comfort levels are at all with the new skills we have been expected to acquire at unprecedented speeds. I have attempted some informal “check-in” conversations to see how things are going, but often I hear a response such as “Thanks, I’d love to learn about that in the future, but I just can...

For my final project I had a few ideas that would result in a digital product and would support the learners at my school. My primary idea was to host a digital book fair with the aid of Scholastics Canada. They have excellent kits available and I thought I could upload some promotional videos unto YouTube to be shared with the parent community (and to explain the necessary steps for making a purchase and attributing it to our school). Armed with this plan, I stepped into the principal’s office and was immediately informed that regrettably all fundraising activities for this year have been discouraged. With COVID affecting families in different ways the school division wanted to ensure that they were not adding to the families’ financial burdens by requesting funds for anything this year. It is a sentiment that I can appreciate, but it meant that I had to rethink my final project plan. The second idea came to me during the same discussion with my principal once I had officially given u...