TESL 330: Kahoot

February 14th, 2020

Hello there everybody!
How are you doing? Today’s Valentine’s day over here, but by the time you receive this, it will be May already. And you know what? You only have one more month to go until you’re done with school, then you’re on vacation (despite being on vacation though, are we ever REALLY finished with school though?)! You can do this! And for you TESL students, you may have JUST finished your Winter semester, and I hope it went amazingly well! If you are starting your summer classes: GOOD LUCK! You got this!

Anyways, this month, I’m yet again looking at a nice website/app which you can use to liven up your classroom!

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TESL 426: Quebec Reading Connection

October 11th, 2019

Hello there, everybody!
How are you doing? While I can complain a lot about my TESL 426 class (as you know I did for the Storybook assignment for example), I can also say that this class has given me so much knowledge about websites to use, and here is one of them.

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TESL 330: Ted-Ed Students

October 2019 

Good morning, everybody!
I hope this post finds you in a good place, and that you’re doing well! Keep at it, you can do this! Here is yet another post from my “Softwares,” which is where I keep track of websites or softwares that we can all use or get inspired with in order to perfect our profession.

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TESL 351: History of the English Language

January 7th, 2020 

Good morning, everybody,
How is it going? We have only just begun the year 2020 and I’m already looking towards 2021 (when I should be done with my program and maybe I can finally have my teaching license and my teaching diploma!)!

Anyways, it is the first week of classes, and already, I am overwhelmed by the amount of work for each classes this semester: TESL427, TESL351 and TESL415 (and then, eventually, TESL467). As this is my first post from this “era” of my academic career, I wanted to share with you a couple of “anecdotes” and a few recommendations that I haven’t done yet.

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TESL 330: Class Dojo

 

November 2019

Hello there everybody,
How are you? Oh! Also! It’s already the beginning of a new year? HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m doing all right, I hope. Internships are going to start soon and it’s… gonna be pretty stressful, but… whatever, it’s fine… right…? It’s fine…

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The Marie-Victorin School Board

January 24th, 2020 

Hello everybody,
How are you doing? I’m doing well, even though next week, I will have my first midterm.  By the time that you’ll read this… I will be starting or have already started my internship semester. But everything is okay… this may seem strange to suddenly see a post from January 2020, but I’m bumping this post from other scheduled posts, because… it feels pretty important for you to know?

Last year, I scheduled a post about working in the area of Montreal, and now that I’ve gone through a little bit more, I just wanted to keep you all up to date with the process with the Commission Scolaire Marie-Victorin, because if someone with my experience now had been close to me and telling me about these things a few days ago, I feel like they would have reassured me.

Disclaimer: Before you start reading, I want you to know that this is just my personal experience with the whole process, and it may not happen to you specifically.

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Professional Portfolio: QPAT Conference

October 7th, 2020

Hello there everybody,
How are you all? I hope this post finds you safe and that you’ve been wearing your masks when going out! Please remember to wash your hands often! Meanwhile, I have been doing well, I have been struggling trying to keep myself updated with the readings my professors have been bombarding us with.

I’m interrupting my monthly posts with this particular post… because… while I’ve spoken about our Professional Portfolios before, but about the SPEAQ conference, last year (even though it was published here a mere few months ago, there are still so many things to explore about the program and its requirements. Today, I would like to tell you about QPAT.

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TESL 330: Storybird

October 17th, 2019

Hello there!
How are you doing?

Before I start the second of these software posts, I want to preface my post with saying that Storybird looks amazing, but it is definitely not free, unlike many of the posts in this category.

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Anxiety (1)

September 4th, 2019 

Dear Teachers with Anxiety,
How are you all? I trust this beginning of September has started well for all of you! Right now, it’s a rainy, rainy day – as many Autumn days are, and this kind of weather just adds on to the gloomy feeling I have, just building up and building up since the last time I had class (back in July).

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