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Tia Henriksen
It's All About Learning
Learner ~ Leader ~ Educator ~ Mother
Passionate about learning and sparking the learning in others. I believe in modelling my own learning. I feel strongly about developing relationships with students, parents, teachers, and my colleagues (near and far). It is through developing these relationships that the most profound learning can occur.
It’s All About Learning
Category Archives: Professional Development
A Smackdown and More
A couple of weeks ago, I received a surprising, but very pleasant, direct message on Twitter that went something like this, “Going to be in Surrey in a couple of weeks… want to get together?” Umm… Yeah! Absolutely! The message … Continue reading
Battle of Technology and Pedagogy
First of all, I have a bit of a confession. When I started on Twitter again almost 2 years ago, I didn’t deeply understand when I read, “It’s not about the technology.” Yes, I understood it on a surface level, … Continue reading
My Formal Leadership Journey
One of the topics of #etmooc has been Digital Storytelling. Telling stories through the use of pictures is a powerful way to share. One of the Digital Storytelling assignments for #etmooc is to do a Five Card Flickr story. For … Continue reading
Posted in etmooc, Leading the Learning, Learning, Professional Development
Tagged #etmooc, 5cardstory, digitalstorytelling, flickrstory, leadership, story, storytelling
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SD36 Admin Blog Reader Bundle and Other Reflections
I always seem to feel “behind the times” and trying to “catch up” – if that is at all possible. HA HA! A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity, along with some other administrators in my district who … Continue reading
My Introduction
A few weeks ago, I signed up for ETMOOC – a Massive Online Open Course focusing on Educational Technology & Media. You can see all the individuals who are responsible for offering us this learning opportunity here. This course is an … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Professional Development
Tagged #etmooc, 30second, introduction, video
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Power of Sharing
I still haven’t finished my “Introduction” to ETMOOC post, but will do that soon. I just had to get this post out of my head tonight. This afternoon, I attended Dean Shareski’s Sharing as Accountability session in the #ETMOOC (Educational … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Leadership, Lessons Learned, Professional Development, Technology
Tagged #etmooc, accountability, administrators, couros, educators, learning, mooc, shareski, sharing, teachers
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Year End Blog Wordle and My Rock
Every so often, I make up a word splash (wordle) of words that are most commonly used in my blog. This was inspired by fellow vice-principal Erin Paynter from Ottawa. The words you use more often are larger than the other less-used … Continue reading
Posted in Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged learning, lifelong learning, motivation, rock
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On Learning
Earlier in the fall, I wrote a post about the importance of finding time for yourself. You can read that post here. It is so important to get away and really think, appreciate, and reflect on what is happening around … Continue reading
Posted in Instructional Leadership, Leading the Learning, Professional Development, Reflection
Tagged energizing, learning, pln, reflection, Twitter
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