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Category: Innovative Teaching & Learning

An Audience of One is No Audience At All

Posted on May 1, 2014April 28, 2014

“Students need an authentic audience.”  You’ve heard this statement before. Given the vast array of opportunities, you would think that this is easy.  But any number of bells are ringing in your head and you recognize it’s not that simple.  Consider questions like “who will be the target audience – parents, peers, people across the…

Who’s Telling Your Story If You’re Not?

Posted on April 28, 2014April 21, 2014

Storytelling is as important today as years past – perhaps more so. There are many competing forces and it is challenging to capture audience’s attention.  Questions to consider might be “What is your story? Who is telling your story? How are you telling it? Is it getting to the audience you wish?” Answers will differ…

Digital Citizenship is Minimal Requirement – We Need Digital Leaders

Posted on April 24, 2014April 26, 2014

Digital citizenship is a topic that is gaining a dizzying momentum.  The range of tools and environments continue to pop up at rates that far outstrip our ability to understand the new territory, much less navigate it. It is one thing to be able to orient yourself through a new environment like a holiday drive…

In-Between the Cracks – Questions Spark Genius

Posted on April 22, 2014April 16, 2014

  Have you ever looked at a dandelion? I mean really looked at it from all facets? OK so you have to crouch down, let your imagination flow, and ignore the stares that will obviously come.  In a little while, you’ll get a stream of questions from a group peering over you, “What are ya lookin’…

Dialogue With A Twist

Posted on April 9, 2014April 22, 2014

How would you create opportunities for students to practice dialogue? Perhaps it’s talk between two people or two characters in a book or a conversation between you and yourself? MMhh…now that would be interesting. A bit of reflective action produced in video format. And practicing a host of literacy elements to boot. The tool you…

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…

Digital Citizenship

Posted on January 13, 2014January 14, 2014

Happy new year. Like all new years, it is a time of  anticipation and new beginnings. Especially with all the technological changes that our students have at their fingertips. While they may be really comfortable at texting and bouncing from one interchange to another, there is a significant difference when using technologies for organized multiple purposes. Powerful…

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…

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…

Nov-Dec Newsletter Out in the World

Posted on November 18, 2013November 28, 2013

  Our November-December newsletter is now published.  Read what’s new and exciting in our district.   As well, you might not have been aware that you can take advantage of purchasing MS Office at home (for only $11). Or select the tab > News to find all issues. [gview file=”http://blogs.sd41.bc.ca/learningtech/files/2012/11/news_2013_11.pdf”] To find all previous NEWS,…

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…

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…

September Newsletter Off The Presses

Posted on September 12, 2013September 12, 2013

  September is filled with a mix of “welcome back activities” as well as planning for possibilities.  Our September Newsletter is hot off the presses.  Click here for your copy.  You can also click on the News tab in the navigation bar for an archive of all the newsletters.

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