Digital Citizenship: Are You Having These Conversations With Your Students?
Over the past 2 years, I have had the chance to visit many other classrooms and during these visits I have also had many conversations about digital citizenship with various students throughout grades...
View ArticleTeaching Digital Citizenship: Digital Law
Thinking about teaching your students digital citizenship can be overwhelming as it is such a broad topic. Where do you even start? Mike Ribble’s 9 elements of digital citizenship provides educators...
View ArticleAlberta’s Curriculum Redesign: Impact On My Practice
Over the last year I have been involved in several conversations and meetings about Alberta’s curriculum redesign as my school district has been involved as a curriculum prototyping partner with the...
View ArticlePD on Your Own Time
Last week I participated in Google Education on Air. It was a free PD event which happened to fall on our PD day and then the next day which was Saturday. This was a perfect opportunity for me to...
View ArticleChrome: The Bees Knees
http://goo.gl/cRAQzc If you haven’t started using Chrome as your default browser you need to consider it. There are so many benefits to using Chrome over the other options out there, especially if you...
View ArticleGlobal Read Aloud: Connect Your Students With the World
I heard of the Global Read Aloud a few years ago and thought that would be a great way to connect my class with others around the world. The idea was simple, choose one of the books to read aloud to...
View ArticleReflecting on the Vision of my Future Classroom
As a final capping presentation, I was required to reflect on any past project from any of the courses throughout my Masters of Education in Educational Technology program. I have been thinking about...
View ArticleWhy Multimedia Literacy? Pt. 1
This post is the first in two part series of posts on some ideas I have been exploring over the past year in a half through in my Graduate Program. These ideas originate from a project I completed,...
View ArticleWhy Multimedia Literacy Pt. 2
This post is the second in two-part series of posts on some ideas I have been exploring over the past year in a half through in my Graduate Program. If you missed part 1, you can find it here. These...
View ArticleThe best makerspace is between your ears!
Last week ETCATA hosted an Invent to Learn workshop with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez. This experience provided Alberta educators with two full days of learning about making, tinkering and...
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