Our Inquiry and RE units this term have focussed on the concepts of community and our place within the community. It has been a rich and diverse unit and we are now at the stage of expressing our learnings about what community is and how it can be built.…
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Loading ...Of all the many different ideas, skills and tech that the Etmooc course has introduced me to, rhizomatic learning is the one that I have been thinking about- often. I had no idea rhizomatic learning even existed until we started discussing it as part of Etmooc.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Verena Roberts hosted an Open Education panel on Thursday that I watched live-stream with some of my co-workers. We missed the very beginning and end of the session, but it was still a great way to introduce them to the concept of open education and consider Google+ Hangouts could be used for webinars.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...On Wednesday February 27th I took part in a webinar from the Buck Institute about STEM PBL. The Buck Institute provides great training and resources for learning about and implementing project-based learning (PBL) in your classroom. I have taken part in two hands-on PBL training sessions about Project Based Learning with the Buck Institute (PBL 101 and PBL 201) in Red Deer and participated in a few of their webinars.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...As part of the planning team for the RE Eastern Network, we spent quite some time last week talking about the place of dialogue in Religious Education. Our first discussion was about what constituted dialogue. We talked about what dialogue IS and what it IS NOT.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...One of the suggested #etmooc tasks for this week’s topic of digital storytelling is to make an animated GIF. I’ve never tried created a GIF but I’ve been very interested in testing it out, especially after watching the the ”How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF” session with Jim Groom.…
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I’m excited to dive into the topic of Digital Storytelling with #etmooc for the next two weeks. I started yesterday with a #sixwordstory so today I thought I would try a 5 Card Flickr Story! Here’s my first attempt!…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Generally speaking, questions need answers, but a colleague reminded me this past week that some answers need questions too.
Learning slows down drastically, or even stops completely when we get to a point where we believe we know everything we need to know about something.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Having participated in two more ETMOOC sessions this week, the conversation has returned often to the notion of ’connected learning’. We have talked about Personal Learning Networks, the place of social media, how much sharing is too much and accountability vs responsibility.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’ve met some fantastic and caring people in this first week of #ETMOOC . I’ve already posted about how Ben Wilkoff has guided me. I’ve also met Lorraine Boulos, a fellow middle school teacher. We’ve discussed so much about inquiry based learning and blogging, and feel a common bond in how we enjoy teaching students through inquiry and [...]
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