What am I doing here?

I was a child of the internet. Sort of.

Growing up in rural Manitoba meant spending a lot of time outside on my family farm working with and feeding animals. But my mom is a journalist by trade, and during my childhood years did a lot of freelance work for various papers from home, which meant that we had access to computers well before many of my friends and classmates. We got dial-up internet service in 1997, the year I was 12, and we were even blessed with a second phone line so that I never even had to interrupt my web browsing when someone needed to make a phone call.

It was true love.

Chat rooms. Message boards. Fan Websites. The internet opened up a whole world at my fingertips.

I remember building my first Geocities website (RIP), and wowing teachers with documents that were typed. In. COLUMNS.

I’ve stayed a pretty active technology user over the ensuing two + decades, but more and more I find myself falling by the wayside. Hopefully this blog will help me as I try to ride the wave of useful educational technology tools and skills that I should be sharing with the staff and students I work with every day. Because I think it’s easily agreed upon that word processing and typing in columns (although a handy skill, for sure) is but a drop in the ocean of the necessary tech skills that our students need.

And so, this blog is to return to all of that. It’s also a place for me to share my work and thoughts as I work towards completing my Diploma in Teacher Librarianship through the University of British Columbia.

Thanks for joining my journey.