I learned nothing. Just kidding of course I learned a few things and had fun doing it. Our tremendous group of Brandon University Education students took off around 9 am on Wednesday Feb 18th. We spent about 6 hours on the bus ride there but it was so much fun it seemed like 2. We got there and on the first night after settling in and hitting the pool we had a nice meal, a couple drinks and a few of us even went to the Saskatoon Blades game. It was an awesome start.
Thursday morning rolled around and we took a shuttle or city bus to University of Saskatchewan. We then checked in and sat around until the 9:30 keynote speaker. He was actually a big technology guy so it was right up the alley of this class. The keynote was good, not too long. The sessions than began and it was an open house type of concept. You could go to which ever you wanted. I tended to go to ones that catered to the early years. I am going to be teaching grade 1 and have little to no experience with that age group so I felt that was a good opportunity for me. I really enjoyed the Math Work Stations that our own BU early years students put on. Those were my favourite, I learned a lot. A few of us decided to head back around 5 in a cab and got settled in for the night and supper.
The next morning was the last day and we were headed out after lunch for our trek back to Brandon. I myself along with Jon Filewich, Jake Weidenhamer, Kelly Whitmore and Kalena Green formed a group called PEDAL standing for Physical EDucation Activity Leadership. We made a presentation and it was hands on and fun. We got the feel that most enjoyed it and we even got invited to present at another conference. That was exciting. More sessions followed and they were quite interesting. A great catered lunch brought us to the end of our trip and a longer more relaxed bus ride home. All and all a great experience, fun group and cool university. Thats my story, thanks for reading.
Rod.
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