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= Welcome to Stephanie's Integrating Technology Wiki page! =

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This Wiki is going to be an interactive reflective journal of my experiences in the PED 3119b class. It has been divided into 3 sections: //Reading, Reflections and Questions//, //Software and How to Use// and //Information and What I have Learned//. In the First section, I will reflect on what I have learned in class and the readings for the week. In the second section, I will make note of the new software we learn about in each class (including explanations of how to access and use it). The last section will be for in-class notes (what we discussed together). I hope that this wiki will give a good, overall impression of what I have learned and experienced this semester. Peruse and enjoy!

Our class website: sites.google.com/site/ped3119b/

A little bit about me....
After my Masters I took a year off to decide what I wanted to do with myself. My parents, who are both teachers, advised me to apply to the BEd program just to give me another option for the following year, which I did. While waiting for a response, I worked at a language company, teaching ESL. I absolutely fell in love with teaching. I had so much fun that when I was accepted into the BEd program, I gladly accepted. I am now taking various teacher preparation courses, including this Integrating Technology class. From this class I hope to learn how to quickly and efficiently use new technology applications and software so that I can implement them in my teaching. I will most likely be employed as a French teacher and so I'm always thinking of new ways to apply what we learn in class to French teaching. Take a look around the wiki and enjoy!
 * [[image:christmas_2009_013_(Small).jpg width="245" height="184"]] || I was raised in Etobicoke, Ontario (now known as "Toronto"), where I lived with my brother, mother and father until I was 19 years old. I went to McMaster to complete an undergrad in //French// and //Theatre and Film//. I was lucky enough to go on exchange to France for a year and I absolutely fell in love with the French language and culture. Europe was amazing, although I do have to admit that I was ready to come home after a year. When I came back, I applied to do a Masters in //Langues et littératures françaises// at McGill. I was accepted into the program and spent the next three years living in Montreal. The Masters was extremely intense, but I managed to finish my thesis, which was a study on the representation of violence in 19th century French theatre (//Le sublime, le grotesque et le meurtre spectaculaire: l’esthétique de la violence dans le drame romantique//). ||