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Skip the Staff Meeting – Create A Wiki
Today was the first day back after the Christmas break and as is the tradition in our school division, early dismissal and staff meeting was scheduled. That’s right; as the teachers are just getting...
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Keeping Parents in the Educational Transformation Loop
As we continue to transform education we can’t forget to engage our parents, who are digital immigrants having come from the industrial age of education. The transformational conversation must include...
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Skype With Students – It’s A No Brainer
This past week we connected a laptop to the Smartboard in our library and my grade 4 students participated in a Skype call for the first time, engaging in a wonderful dialogue with Ms. Witherspoon’s...
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Who’s Teaching Who?
I’ve been noticing some interesting happenings around my school this year. The long-standing relationship between teachers and DIGITAL NATIVE students is starting to change. In a slow way and in small...
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Don’t Just “Cover” Curriculum
In our province the English Language Arts curriculum is loaded with numerous outcomes at every grade level. While looking through these outcomes last week my attention was drawn to the concept of...
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How Transformation Actually Occurs
PART 1 Last week I was going about my nightly ritual of checking student Kidblog accounts to moderate and approve any posts or comments that may have been submitted in the past 24 hours. I’ve been...
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Technology is an Equalizer
Last week I watched intently as an autistic grade 2 child exhibited great delight while navigating his way through an exercise that challenged everyone in his class. Using the school’s internal hard...
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Observations on ETMOOC Week 1 – People, Processes and Stuff
For a few years now I have been following the annual Horizon Report. The internationally recognized New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report is a comprehensive research venture established in 2002...
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Listen To Me – I Can Read
We’ve had the Audioboo App on our school iPads for a while now. It’s a great podcasting tool because you can easily record student’s voices and the recording automatically uploads to the Audioboo...
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Our Grade 2 App Smackdown – An Experiment.
According to Cybrary Man’s Educational Websites (@cybraryman1), “a Smackdown or Show and Tell is a sharing of websites, tools or teaching tricks that you have found to be great to use. You are given 2...
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Keeping Parents in the Educational Transformation Loop
As we continue to transform education we can’t forget to engage our parents, who are digital immigrants having come from the industrial age of education. The transformational conversation must include...
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Skype With Students – It’s A No Brainer
This past week we connected a laptop to the Smartboard in our library and my grade 4 students participated in a Skype call for the first time, engaging in a wonderful dialogue with Ms. Witherspoon’s...
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Who’s Teaching Who?
I’ve been noticing some interesting happenings around my school this year. The long-standing relationship between teachers and DIGITAL NATIVE students is starting to change. In a slow way and in small...
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Don’t Just “Cover” Curriculum
In our province the English Language Arts curriculum is loaded with numerous outcomes at every grade level. While looking through these outcomes last week my attention was drawn to the concept of...
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How Transformation Actually Occurs
PART 1 Last week I was going about my nightly ritual of checking student Kidblog accounts to moderate and approve any posts or comments that may have been submitted in the past 24 hours. I’ve been...
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When Learning Goes Viral
This past Friday was my districts second Collab Day of the year. That’s right, Collab Day. That’s our common language here – we refer to the district-wide professional development day as a Collab Day....
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The Desktop is Dead…
Last week, while standing in my school district’s Boardroom talking to a colleague, my attention was drawn to a small table in the corner of the room. There, sharing a space with a landline telephone...
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Who’s Teaching Who?
I’ve been noticing some interesting happenings around my school this year. The long-standing relationship between teachers and DIGITAL NATIVE students is starting to change. In a slow way and in small...
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Don’t Just “Cover” Curriculum
In our province the English Language Arts curriculum is loaded with numerous outcomes at every grade level. While looking through these outcomes last week my attention was drawn to the concept of...
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How Transformation Actually Occurs
PART 1 Last week I was going about my nightly ritual of checking student Kidblog accounts to moderate and approve any posts or comments that may have been submitted in the past 24 hours. I’ve been...
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