Welcome to Jane Christensen's Personal Webspace
Welcome to my Website!!!
I have created this Personal Website to share my adventures through my learning in the Graduate Diploma in Online Learning and Teaching (OLTD) program at Vancouver Island University.
This site will document my "adventures" as I travel through the OLTD program.
Thank-you for sharing in my adventure.....
Jane Christensen, B.Ed
Last Update: Fall 2012
I have created this Personal Website to share my adventures through my learning in the Graduate Diploma in Online Learning and Teaching (OLTD) program at Vancouver Island University.
This site will document my "adventures" as I travel through the OLTD program.
Thank-you for sharing in my adventure.....
Jane Christensen, B.Ed
Last Update: Fall 2012
Personal Introduction
I was born and raised in Victoria, BC. Both of my parents were teachers, so I learned from a very young age about how important education is. My father passed away at the age of sixty-one; my mother, now seventy-six lives with my daughters and me. I have an older sister and brother and two beautiful daughters, Keira and Acacia.
I am a single mother, which has been a blessing and a challenge. My elder daughter’s father is not involved in our lives, his own loss. My younger daughter is a “donor baby” conceived through the Genesis Clinic in Vancouver. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer about seven years ago, when my younger daughter was two years old. I now view life through totally different eyes than I did before. I try to find the lighter side of the darker sides of life. When I had my second surgery after being diagnosed, I was walking down the hospital corridor with four drainage tubes coming out of my neck and dried blood surrounding the staples in my neck from ear to ear and matting my hair, when I made the quip, “Where is my husband, Frankenstein?” Needless to say, the poor woman, trapped on a stretcher, thought I was in the wrong ward!!! I believe that we can’t change what has happened in the past, so we may as well take advantage and enjoy what lies ahead. I grasp every opportunity to spend quality and memorable times with my children and I see the beauty in many things that others may overlook.
I have been teaching for twenty-three years and am more excited now than when I first started teaching. I taught in Terrace, BC my first year, and have been teaching in Nanaimo ever since. I have been teaching mainly at the grade four level for most of my career. This year, however, I am teaching grade three, a bit of a foreign entity for me. I think we will all survive!
I am so excited about learning about on-line learning and delving deeply into all the technology that goes with it. I believe that technology is such an important aspect of education. There is a huge world out there for our students to explore. To incorporate technology as a means to enrich their life-long learning experiences is important. My worries are that we do not have the proper instruments to fully facilitate an ever-changing technological age, whether it be an antiquated computer lab or the lack of opportunities for educators to keep up with new innovations.
How can we keep up with emerging technologies and ensure that we have the resources to do so?
Happy learning!!!
I was born and raised in Victoria, BC. Both of my parents were teachers, so I learned from a very young age about how important education is. My father passed away at the age of sixty-one; my mother, now seventy-six lives with my daughters and me. I have an older sister and brother and two beautiful daughters, Keira and Acacia.
I am a single mother, which has been a blessing and a challenge. My elder daughter’s father is not involved in our lives, his own loss. My younger daughter is a “donor baby” conceived through the Genesis Clinic in Vancouver. I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer about seven years ago, when my younger daughter was two years old. I now view life through totally different eyes than I did before. I try to find the lighter side of the darker sides of life. When I had my second surgery after being diagnosed, I was walking down the hospital corridor with four drainage tubes coming out of my neck and dried blood surrounding the staples in my neck from ear to ear and matting my hair, when I made the quip, “Where is my husband, Frankenstein?” Needless to say, the poor woman, trapped on a stretcher, thought I was in the wrong ward!!! I believe that we can’t change what has happened in the past, so we may as well take advantage and enjoy what lies ahead. I grasp every opportunity to spend quality and memorable times with my children and I see the beauty in many things that others may overlook.
I have been teaching for twenty-three years and am more excited now than when I first started teaching. I taught in Terrace, BC my first year, and have been teaching in Nanaimo ever since. I have been teaching mainly at the grade four level for most of my career. This year, however, I am teaching grade three, a bit of a foreign entity for me. I think we will all survive!
I am so excited about learning about on-line learning and delving deeply into all the technology that goes with it. I believe that technology is such an important aspect of education. There is a huge world out there for our students to explore. To incorporate technology as a means to enrich their life-long learning experiences is important. My worries are that we do not have the proper instruments to fully facilitate an ever-changing technological age, whether it be an antiquated computer lab or the lack of opportunities for educators to keep up with new innovations.
How can we keep up with emerging technologies and ensure that we have the resources to do so?
Happy learning!!!