Ms. Inden’s Website

Here is a link to a site where you can go and get help on homework. It can also help you study for your provincial exams:

This is a tag cloud created by copying and pasting the text from the first two units of BCFNS 12 in to the application called Tagul. It tabulated which words were used the most frequently. The bigger the words, the more often I used the word. Then, I was able to design aspects such as colour, font, angle, and cloud shape.

I have been thinking a lot about what I want to achieve as a teacher. Actually, that thinking has been going on for all of the fifteen years I have been at this profession. So what’s on my mind today?

Production, not just consumption.

At school, you consume a lot of information if you are doing what we ask you to do. We have a lot of pressure to teach you the curriculum and cover a lot of ground.

But what makes for good, deep, idea-shifting learning? When you produce information, not just consume it.

Think about what the difference would be if  I handed you a textbook and asked you to read it, versus giving you a topic and asking you to write the textbook.

Well, that’s a huge project – but it works on the smaller scale as well. The deepest learning will occur when you produce an educational video, write a children’s book, create a blog, write a cartoon, produce a play, record a podcast and so on.

My hope is to use a variety of means, including technology, to help you produce information, not just consume it.

Becoming educated has a lot to do with thinking – no suprise, right? Here are some of my thoughts on thinking.

When you are reading a book, you are thinking. When you watch a movie, you are thinking. When you listen to someone, you are thinking. When you write, you are thinking.

This thinking is important!

It is important for you to KNOW your thinking!

Pay attention to what is going on in your head when you are reading or viewing or listening. Take notes on what you are thinking, or find some other way to remember what you are thinking.

Then, you can use your thinking to write or speak in class. So, know your thinking so you SHOW your thinking!

Finally, thinking is interesting. What makes learning exciting is the fun you have watching yourself learn and think, and the fun you have learning with other people who are also thinking and learning.