About me
I grew up on a farm near Olds, Alberta, Canada. I spent 22 years as a classroom teacher in rural Alberta and am now employed as the Coordinator of Educational Technology for the Chinook’s Edge School Division. I am also a Doctoral Scholar at the University of Calgary where I am focusing my research on AI in the K-12 environment. You can follow my research through my website www.innoverse.ca or my YouTube channel where I record tips, tricks and information about AI tools at yt.innoverse.ca
In the early years of my career, I moved frequently to take jobs where they were available, and eventually found that I had taught every grade between K and 12, and had taught almost all subjects as well. Once the educational environment settled down, and longer-term jobs were available (once Ralph Klein had balanced the provincial budget and had ceased the “hack-and-slash” he had done to education), I landed in central Alberta where I became a career junior high teacher (and you can draw whatever conclusions you may about that fact). While my B.Ed officially made me a French teacher, I taught computer technology for seventeen years. My students were engaged in a wide range of technology-related activities from productivity, word processing, presentations and spreadsheets to business planning to web building, coding, animation, photoshopping, video editing and even gaming and game creation.
