Twin Rivers Education Centre
Visual Storytelling
A SET-BC Synergy Project
What a wacky spring! This year, I decided that I would focus on embracing technology and start incorporating it into my daily teaching practice. In the beginning, I mostly did it to reduce paper waste and to facilitate providing work for students that are home sick, on vacation, or serving suspensions offsite. When I made that goal, I had no idea how much that choice would change my teaching practice or how instrumental that decision would be to my survival this year.
In September, I started my journey by creating Google Classrooms for each of the 17 courses I sometimes teach. It was a huge undertaking, but I was making good progress by October and I felt ready for a new challenge. In October, I attended a Pro-D workshop about Universally Designed Learning and the presenter talked about the Set-BC synergy project. I spent the weekend dreaming up a project that could help me achieve my UDL goals within the scope of the Synergy project. I fell in love with my visual storytelling project and I got to work on my application as soon as I got back to school. I had an eager group of learners and we were excited to take on this project and all the learning together. Our technology finally showed up just before spring break and we were all excited to jump in after we got back. Unfortunately, Covid-19 had different plans and schools were shut down before anyone had the chance to film even a single shot. Our project was put on hold indefinitely. While my visual storytelling project was put on hold, I shifted my focus back to my Google Classroom project. By the mid-March school shut down I had completed all but 3 of my 17 Google Classrooms. We were given a week to prep and contact families. I had digital versions of almost all of my teaching materials and I knew how to navigate the Google suite of products. I still had 3 Google Classrooms to finish for the courses I was teaching at the time, but I was miles ahead of my colleagues. All did not go smoothly, but I at least had time to breathe. Now to figure out how to teach students that don’t wake up until after my workday is done. All suggestions are welcome!
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AuthorErin Fletcher is a humanities teacher at Twin Rivers Education Centre in Kamloops, BC. Archives
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