Realizing that I had totally forgotten about this second part of the activity until this morning, I decided to do this activity in my office at work. I share the office with two of my coworkers who are also online teachers. It is a small space with 4 desks and the decor truly leaves much […]
For my sound effect story, I created a short clip of a baby being woken up from a nap by a telephone ringing. Being 30 weeks pregnant, I’ve got babies on my mind! I imagine this will be a situation that I will face in the near future. Or maybe not…I won’t be so careless […]
The hardest part of this activity for me was trying to figure out what to record! I hate the sound of my own voice recorded so I really wanted to avoid it. In the end, I went with background classroom noise for my Anchor.fm audio and a clip of my colleagues discussing new technology during […]
The tips that I used from David duChemin’s free ebook TEN: Ten Way to Improve Your Crave. None of Them Involve Buying Gear are: Better Contrast Makes Better Stories: I wanted to take a photo where the contrast would be different than what I would usually quickly snap with my iphone. I liked that the background in […]
Whenever I receive an email like this, my first reaction is to delete it because I generally mistrust emails that come from unknown sources. I do not give my personal or work email out easily so it is unusual for me to receive unsolicited emails like this. This email seems sketchy to me because of […]
Activity 1 Here are some snapshots of my results when I googled the terms without any advance search strategies: I found that for most the searches, the people that came up were Caucasians with the exception of the “leader” and “teacher” searches. This makes sense though because my location is in Canada, which is predominantly […]
Google Chrome is my usual go-to internet browser. I was not able to find information on how long Google keeps cookies from third parties. However, there are ways to change the settings so that cookies from certain sets are blocked or to have Google automatically delete all cookies by default when you close your browser. […]
Ruth Leong, also known by her maiden name as Ruth Cheng, is a high school math teacher who is currently teaching in the Coquitlam School District. In the past, she has taught in the Surrey and North Vancouver school districts. Before entering the teaching profession, Ruth worked as a statistical analyst at the British Columbia […]
My main goal when planning and building this preliminary structure for my site was to keep it fairly simple and easy to read. For this reason, I chose the simplest theme available. However, I found that the default aesthetics of the site were not pleasing to me. For example, I found the spacing of the […]
Hi! I am a high school mathematics teacher in the Coquitlam School District. This is my first course that I am taking for my MAEL program. I am excited to start! – Ruth
