Today, February 20th, I ventured out to my fourth food truck stop, The Mad Greek, which specializes in Greek inspired platters and wraps. This is a food truck that I have been wanting to try for some time as I love Greek food, however the truck hasn’t been open on either a convenient day/time or…
On Sunday, February 15th it was a beautiful sunny day (which we haven’t had very many of) so I checked the Street Food app and saw that Yo-Bones BBQ was open and was located at beautiful Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, so I decided to give it a try! Yo-Bones BBQ is a food truck…
Mike Silverton | EDCI 336 Focused Education Resources During the past couple of weeks, we have learnt a lot about Focused Education Resources (Focused Ed) starting with a presentation from Mike in our Week 5 EDCI 336 class who gave us an overview of what Focused Ed is, its value, as well as gave us…
On Saturday, February 7th I ventured out to my second food truck destination. I again checked the Street Food app for food trucks that were open near me and chose Twisties A Serious Potato Co. because I love french fries and I had found out that the origin of these fries can be found in…
Earlier this week my mom said that she wanted cookies and since our family doesn’t have a go-to cookie recipe, I told her about the story that Darcy told us about the teacher who had done an experiment with her students to see who had the best cookie recipe; the recipe from the back of…
On Saturday, January 31st I ventured out for my first food truck stop. I checked the Street Food app and chose the Holy Taco and Mexi Eats food truck. As I started on my way I noticed that the app was no longer showing the location of this food truck, so I decided to call…
Jeff Hopkins | TedxVictoria | Education as if People Mattered This week we learnt about Jeff Hopkins who is the co-principal and founder of an alternative school in Victoria, British Columbia called The Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII). In learning about him I watched a TEDx called, ‘Education as if People Mattered’ about…
For my Free Inquiry I wanted to find a way to combine two of my passions: food and teaching. After some Google searches, food related educational lesson research, and a discussion with our professor, I have decided to create a food blog based on my travels throughout the lower mainland to a variety of different…
This week Darcy Mcnee, District Teacher Leader from School District 63 came to speak to our class about the use of AI in Saanich schools. What stood out to me the most about her conversation was how impactful AI’s ability to “place” someone in any given environment can be on education. How doing such a…