Email:
bdyck@masters.ab.ca
MASTER'S
ACADEMY AND COLLEGE
About Brenda
Brenda teaches at Master's Academy and
College, a private k-12 school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Brenda is the the school
Technology Integration coach and
teaches Grade 6 Math. She has a particular interest in creating and managing
telecollaborative projects and working with teachers to integrate
technology into their day to day curriculum. Her project, "I'm Leading. Is Anyone Following?
(2000/2001) and "Let
the Walls Come Down" (2001/2002) received
a Telus Grassroots grant. "We the
Children..." was also awarded this grant for the 2001-2002 school
year.
In addition to teaching, Brenda is a teacher editor for MidLink Magazine, an ezine that
profiles exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe. The projects
profiled on MidLink Magazine reflect the creative learning process that exists in
classrooms where technology is the vehicle or enhancement, but academics are the focus.
Brenda's projects, "Let the Walls Come Down!"
and beyond
"Beyond Wild Justice" are currently posted on MidLink
Magazine's fall list.
Brenda has written a number of professional articles for Education World,
Microsoft's Classroom Teacher Network and writes the Electronic Thread
feature for Middle Ground Magazine (a publication of the National Middle
School Association). Brenda was one of the finalists in Global
Schoolnet's 2003 Shared Learning Award.
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