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Teacher Collaboration: How Can We Get More of This?
Having dedicated time to plan with another teacher or several teachers has been one of the best parts of my job this year. As a Lead Collaboration Teacher, I get to work with teachers who request to...
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Response to Reading- It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens,...
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd, was eye opening. Having not been a teenager for a while now, I have not taken the perspective of a teen for many years. The world...
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Epic Fails: A lesson from Michael Strembinsky School
Recently, I had the chance to visit Michael Strembitsky School. Something that stood out for me was their celebration of their “Epic Fails”. For the past 2 years and a bit, their school has been on a...
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Teaching in a Participatory Culture
Image from: http://langwitches.org/blog/2014/11/23/blogging-for-learning-mulling-it-over/ Recently I read, “Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom“, by Henry...
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Drinking the Google Drive Kool-Aid: My Top Reasons for Switching from Office...
I started using Google Docs several years ago when it was just Google Docs. Over the past two years, I really started to understand it and use it for my own work, with students and as a student myself...
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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...
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Teaching 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...
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Alberta’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...
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PD 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...
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Chrome: 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...
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Global 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...
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Reflecting 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...
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Why 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,...
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Why 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...
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Season of Peace and Nonviolence EDU
I learned about the Season of Peace and Nonviolence while participating in the Mahatma Ghandi Summer Institute in the summer 2014. If you have not heard about this institute yet, you should look into....
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The 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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