It is more than a week ago that schools were cancelled because of flooding in Calgary. Calgary would be in a state of emergency for many more days to come.
It is one of those days when you will never forget where you were and what you were doing.…
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Loading...Wikis are a favorite “classic” web 2.0 tool of educators, but the ways they are used in teaching and learning today has evolved beyond the simplification of classroom management tasks. In this Google+ Hangout, Wendy ……
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Register for 5 Ways to Prevent Cheating in Online Courses: Dr. Heather Farmakis and Dr. Melissa Kaulbach will discuss the rationale behind online cheating and offer strategies/tools ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Personal learning networks should deepen our humanity.
That’s a half-baked idea, but I think it starts to get at something that has emerged in a few recent conversations I’ve had with a good friend. This all starts because personal learning networks (PLNs) and their impact within workplaces and education spaces raises a set of questions for me that is driving my current work and thinking.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So can you measure a cMOOC? Or elsewhere and elsewhere too – well I suggest that xMOOCs can via the ever stalking Analytics monster can measure, or at least pertain to measure, which may be in honesty all we can claim to do.…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Recently I was lucky enough to be selected as part of a group of teachers who will be developing iTunes U courses aligned to the Australian Curriculum for Years 7 to 10. I’ve subscribed to a few iTunes U courses and collections over the last year and I had signed up to iTunes U course manager and made a start on an Algebra unit for my Yr 7 group. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Namibia is about the size of France and Germany combined with a population of approximately two million, so one can travel for long periods of time without seeing anyone. One of the striking features of Namibia is the often glorious blue sky.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...These are my personal reflections after reading Pasi Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons, created and cross-posted to discussions as part of my Educational Leadership coursework.
Pasi Sahlberg in Finnish Lessons focuses on giving a comprehensive description of the education system in Finland by providing a historical, political, and social look at factors that have supported the rise in student achievement since the 1970’s.…
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The Ryerson University Library and Archives LibraryBox, a self-contained, wireless digital resource-sharing device, is finally taking shape. At present it consists of a selection of public domain ebooks (including a couple available in Canada only) and a sampling of OER textbooks made available from OpenStax College and the BC Open Textbooks Project.…
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