I am excited for this course, and believe it’s absolutely necessary. However, as it is still only week 2, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with navigating all the new sites and technology.

I was very inspired today by all the resources we were shown. Something has never sat right with me regarding the site ‘Teachers Pay Teachers’. Perhaps what I dislike is obvious in just the name- teachers shouldn’t have to pay out of pocket for resources. Also, sharing between teachers for free should be encouraged. Therefore, I am grateful to have learned about sites such as: Open Educational Resources, Public Domain, Creative Commons, BC Open Textbook Project, Wikimedia, Unsplash and Pexels.

We watched the film ‘Most Likely To Succeed’ which was really inspiring. I agree with what they said about learning being ‘messy’. Humans are organic creatures; creative and unique, and standardizing school on a national, or global level does not always take that fact into account.