Another New Year and another fresh start...

So - I am back again and I have another, very different, plan...

After a week of presentations about the new (and rather exciting) Web 2.0 technologies I have reformulated my blog mission. I have been wondering for a while now, how I might best manage my academic musings; my environmental concerns and observations and my research needs and desires. A blog... this is the answer - for now anyway!!

So 2006 was amazing... The trip home was great - check out my photos (see Shutterfly link). I competed and passed all of my courses and I even had a Christmas/New Year trip to Cuba - to get the necessary sun, sand and ocean exposure - check out my photos (see Shutterfly link). Yep - I came back with some severe tan lines. Unfortunately, in the freezing north they are rapidly fading...

I am in my last semester of compulsory courses and really enjoying it and the other reading course I am taking. I sit in on an ecofeminism undergrad course and continue to be surprised by the thinking I have not been exposed to before. I teach a course to pre-service middle years teachers in Environmental Education - a great challenge. I am involved in an interesting research project looking at middle years student engagement in the Science Class. And I have finally managed to get a live organism project up and running in the Education Science Labs!!! YAY

In addition, I have finally succumbed to the temptation to be involved and walk my talk... I have taken on some interesting roles:

• Co-Chair of the International Commission - with NAAEE (North American Association of Environmental Education) www.naaee.org
• President of SOEEA (Saskatchewan Outdoor and Environmental Education Association) www.soeea.sk.ca
  
• Co-Chair of the Pre-Conference Research Symposium of the Trails to Sustainability Conference www.trailstosustainability.ca

So all in all - I am having fun!!