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Digital Learning Day – Feb 5

Posted on January 27, 2014January 26, 2014

The days of January have been whizzing by, partly due to the start of another term and partly due to our wonderful west coast weather.  Having some sun certainly invites a bit more energy in the steps as well as some hopeful signs of spring just around the corner. We are hearing about so many…

App #10 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 17, 2013December 17, 2013

App #10: Partner a beautiful image that you’ve drawn or photographed with interactivity and you’ve got Thinglink. These rich interactives provide another way to curate and organize information. I’ve written about this before using the SAMR Model as an example (developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, Ph.D) and also here where I was participating in CLMOOC. Thinglink offers interaction tools that tag photos or images…

App #9 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 16, 2013December 15, 2013

App #9: In our effort to highlight the SAMR Model of integration of technology, we’ve been considering what activities might fit into Redefinition (technology that allows creation of new tasks, previously inconceivable). What activities might have significant impact to student outcomes? The “tell your story” concept remains one of the powerful ways we have to teach others, to increase audience,…

App #8 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 13, 2013December 13, 2013

App #8:  Image editors are the tools that help your ordinary images dance off pages. IrfanView is a free program (on your school computers) that does a variety of basics like compression.  I love the “batch conversion” feature when I need a ton of images resized for the web.  (click here for instructions) When I need to…

App #7 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 12, 2013December 12, 2013

App #7:  How do you present information from research projects?  Usually we default to PowerPoint.  Another option is Haiku Deck for all platforms. I wrote about this app for the iPad before (click here).  The presentation software offers a beautiful, yet simplistic way to to share information.  Each slide offers options for layout, format (bullet points), images (including…

App #6 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 11, 2013December 9, 2013

App #6:   QR Codes (or Quick Response codes) are everywhere – in magazines, on professional cards, on billboards, websites, newsletters all because those little squares can be packed with information. You can even find them at the grocery store gracing the fruit section (giving you additional details of the grower).  Teachers have used them to create…

App #5 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 10, 2013December 9, 2013

App #5:   Many of us have our students write stories and then illustrate the text.  While the artists in the bunch do flips and cartwheels (and I’ve had those students),  what happens to those who struggle with drawing the simplest shapes.  You know what I mean… somehow my tree just doesn’t quite look like a…

App #4 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 9, 2013December 8, 2013

App #4:  “I hate Google Docs!” stated a student in an advanced writing class.  The teacher being stunned by this emphatic state turned my way with a “now what!” look.  After probing, it became clear that this writer liked the thesaurus dictionary in MSWord.  A quick introduction to online visual dictionaries opened a whole different world not…

App #3 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 6, 2013December 4, 2013

  App #3:  What happens when you bring together an ipad, an app, words, thoughts, and sound?  Why Book Creator of course. This app for the ipad is a thing of beauty when it comes to creating ebooks.  Images can be drawn or photographed and inserted along with text.  As well, audio can enhance both the background environment…

App #2 of “10 Apps to Countdown Season”

Posted on December 5, 2013December 4, 2013

App #2:   We all collect lists of websites to use in our classes or professional learning.  Many of you use online tools such as Diigo (my favourite) or Delicious to organize these for easy retrieval.  Another one along this line is Symbaloo or to be precise, Edu.Symbaloo.  (I’ve written about this before.) This site takes bookmarks and creates imaged tiles for…

10 Apps to Countdown the Season

Posted on December 4, 2013December 4, 2013

  In keeping with the season and heading towards the winter break, I’m doing a countdown of 10 apps that add spice to your toolkit. Regardless of the application or tool you choose to use, it always comes back to purpose.    APP #1:   Picslice is an online application (no downloading) that will take…

How Do You Communicate?

Posted on November 13, 2013November 16, 2013

More than any other initiative we’ve been a part, none have reached the level of activity as our wordpress blogging platform. This pilot grew from humble beginnings with the simple goal of “tell your story”.  Our question – what would happen if we gave our people an opportunity to open a window into classrooms or…

Send Fast Information to Class iDevices

Posted on October 29, 2013October 29, 2013

You’ve prepared your lesson well, details carefully thought out. While the iPad or iPod/Touches can be used as pickup-and-go device, having a workflow in mind gives a stronger experience.  Imagine my “oops” after handing out 25 iPod/Touches,  I forgot to set the website URL on the devices so my students could easily launch the site…

Book Love

Posted on October 15, 2013October 12, 2013

  Book Love by Penny Kittle shares stories on how readers develop depth, stamina and passion. Though written with adolescents in mind, the message is absolutely appropriate for elementary age. She states that the path to difficult reading begins with books that students enjoy. To build capacity for reading requires practice and lots of it…

Using Technologies With A Purpose

Posted on October 8, 2013October 8, 2013

The SAMR Model [developed by Ruben Puentedura] offers a framework for viewing how we integrate technologies into our curricula.  Broken into four sections [Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition], it is a simple way to group activities that provide a variety of purposes.  The goal is to move towards teaching ‘above the line’.  You can hover over different parts of…

Reading The Impossible

Posted on October 1, 2013September 30, 2013

Many of you have asked me if there is support for those who struggle with reading digital content especially when it is written above instructional reading levels.  Every time a class attempts research out on the web, students are faced with information they cannot comfortably read. For the brain to have enough neuronal resources to…

Access Raz-Kids Through iPad

Posted on September 23, 2013September 21, 2013

Some news that I’ve been waiting for from Learning A-Z, which will offer increased flexibility – Raz-Kids has launched their app for ipad!  Students can now access our Raz-Kids accounts from the ipad.  You should use a headset [the speaker jack from your headset goes into the jack on the top of the ipad].  The recordings…

A Year of Discovery

Posted on June 21, 2013June 20, 2013

It’s June and I’m really not sure what happened to this year.  The ten months prior have whizzed by and here we are again.  I wanted to take this moment to share some reflections of the year and try to put things into perspective.   Our Writers Workshop folks grappled with ideas related not only…

Interactive Images – Using Thinglink

Posted on June 4, 2013September 1, 2013

There are moments when an image tells a better story than just having a bunch of words on a page (actually that’s most of the time).  However when that image has a level of interactivity such that it delivers even more information, then you have a perfect marriage of visual and linguistic. On any given…

It’s All in the Workflow

Posted on May 1, 2013August 26, 2013

Maybe this post should have been called “Sanity is Everything”.  You’ve decided on an inquiry project that injects elements of learning technologies. Besides knowing what software you’re going to use and booking the lab or equipment, you dive in. Not so fast! These next thinking steps will allow you to experience a successful project [aka…

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