January+2015

The New Year Dawneth.
A few highlights from January:

Many of us at Dakota are starting to wrap our heads around the new [|SchoolBundle] & Sharepoint options we have for web presence with our classes and students. Many of us have signed up for training sessions to figure this out.

Semester one came to a close, and as always, I find myself thining about the necessity of exams. I wrote a fair bit about that last January, so that'll do for now.

Our school won the [|21C Canada] "Shifting Minds" School Award. Many of the people who had a hand in the beginning of 1 to 1 BYOD at Dakota came to the school on January 28th. Nice to see former Dakota Administrators and retired board office members in attendance. We even had a lunch together! Nice to see Duane Brothers, Irene Nordheim, Christian Michalik and Clarke Hagan there to represent the Louis Riel School Division. David Roberts and Karen Yamada were in attendance on behalf of 21C Canada. It was a good event, and a good reminder that we are doing unique and important things here at Dakota. Also, congratulations to [|Kelli Boklaschuk of the Brandon School Division] on winning the "Shifting Minds" Award in the Individual Teacher category: it looks like it was a good year for ICT infusion and learning awards in Manitoba.

I'm actually writing this on Groundhog Day...so I get to see the whole month as a part of the past. We'll still have at least six more weeks of Winter in Winnipeg no matter what any prognosticating rodent has to say.

So, on with the New Year. May it be a good one.