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It’s November – Leveling Up Feedback

Posted on November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Feedback could be considered the basis to all learning in whatever capacity. Consider a golf swing – you gain immediate feedback when that tiny ball doesn’t quite get into that tiny tiny hole. Or perhaps it’s the cake that doesn’t quite poof up as shown in the picture of that recipe especially when they say…

Mid November Reflections – Voices

Posted on November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

It’s mid November and the leaves have displayed their Fall colours (either still hanging onto trees or splashed across the landscape). We truly live in a wonderful part of the world.  One of our concentrations is to provide a written voice for every student. Six teams of classroom and LSS/ELL partnerships from six schools launched,…

Math, Math and More Math

Posted on May 25, 2016May 25, 2016

In partnership with Ron Coleborn (Math consultant), we are pleased to announce two Math softwares available for teachers to apply: Dreambox Learning (Math) Skoolbo (Math and Literacy basic skills) (Canadian version) DreamBox is an online Math resource (K-8) intended to support personalized instruction for students from intervention to enrichment. The ongoing formative assessments within the program…

Stories Told: Risk-Taking and Connected Relationships

Posted on September 18, 2015

We left off last year with celebration events for all of our teams. Many things stood out from those gatherings: risk-taking is built on trust, possibility thinking and time to ruminate, ideas start from what we know (a launch page), integration of purposeful technologies requires focused play, assessment is not an afterthought, articulating clear goals…

On the Geeky Side

Posted on September 8, 2015September 8, 2015

If there’s one thing you can count on in Learning Technologies is that change is a constant. No longer can you rely on getting comfortable with only one tool; before you know it another version or upgrade is available. Even worse is when your favourite resource has been shelved and you’re on the hunt for…

Where the Intersection between Talk and Courage Meet

Posted on December 1, 2014November 30, 2014

Created with Tagul.com We’ve been working and editing our Digital Citizenship (curriculum dare I say) for a bit now (squeezed in between all the other projects). And I’ve returned to the same conclusion I had at the beginning of this journey. The only thing that is really different is that we access an online environment…

Engage in the Experience – Professional Learning

Posted on October 7, 2014October 22, 2014

As we organize our teaching/learning environments, it is important to hold time to learn ourselves – to challenge ourselves to engage with new ideas, to seek out new opportunities in professional learning, and to reflect how they relate with personal beliefs.  This is about connecting to what is important.  Only then can we bring powerful…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Lightbulb Moment – Conversation in the Round

Posted on March 10, 2013September 1, 2013

Recently an email landed in my box with a link to a voicethread.  For those of you who haven’t seen VoiceThread, it’s a handy tool for collaborative communication out on the web.  But let’s start at the beginning.  I was involved in a planning project with a school envisioning a whole flip of their library.  Aaahh, “Martha…

Learning on a Curve – Learning Tech Inquiry Team

Posted on February 11, 2013February 10, 2013

  So much to learn – that must have been the thinking bubble of each participant in our Learning Tech Inquiry group.  It was a day to use the new technologies (laptops, ipads, software) and get a bit more comfortable. This is what we explored: Start with a bit of brainstorming ideas.  We used Padlet (previously known…

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