This year I am a mentor for the edublogs Student Blogging Challenge, it is the first time I have been involved, and I am looking forward to it, although I have a lot of posts to read. I have been assigned 29 students from the United States and Trinidad and Tobago; it is interesting how similar their interests are.…
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Loading...Will Richardson’s MOOC session, “The Challenges and Opportunities of Modern Learning” got me thinking about where we are and where we need to be with technology in instruction. I was engaged and interested in this session.
I am interested more in adult learning than K-12, however the ideas brought up in Will’s session were relevant to all learners and educators.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Here’s the intro to Session 3: Design from Women Learning Tech: Create a Website. We start using Weebly, a web template editor and now appreciate all the coding going on under the covers to make this app work. We’ll consider website design considerations – because with tools like Weebly, anybody can make a website, but that doesn’t mean anyone will want to visit it.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I must admit that I have felt a little intimidated with the idea of creating my first Prezi for a presentation that I am giving this Thursday. My anxiety has held me back from actually creating the Prezi. I am one of those people that needs time to think and reflect before starting a project. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In the etmooc (Educational Technology Media Open Online Course), I have learned how to use some interesting sites where you can curate and collaborate with information. This has been incredibly eye-opening, useful, and liberating. I began by lurking, dabbled by retweeting, blabbed with tweeting, flirted with reviewing, buzzed on my blog, and now – with these exciting new sites – aspire to curate.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My class and I made an iMovie trailer today after our Grade 2 buddies from Eagle View Elementary visited our English class. If you are interested in viewing it please click on the link below. Our little buddies retold the story to us and we recorded it with the Livescribe pens. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Interesting how sense making converges. Not only rhizomatically but layered and scaffolded. Currently I am enrolled in three courses, ETMOOC, Aboriginal Worldviews and Education (AWE) and WomenLearningTech. I am also reading the Half Life of Facts. Last night we had a wonderful etmooc chat around K-12 open education discussing ideas about what does being open mean, the potential pitfalls and barriers as well as the opportunities openness brings to us and our students.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Meet Vine, Twitter’s app that lets you create short, 6-second looping videos in a simple, fun way. The videos you post show up on your Vine profile, but you can also share your videos on Twitter and Facebook. Creative Vining Vine is still young–released late January–so you’ll notice users get more and more creative with […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Today I have taught two lessons on Ratio, both were very different, but both went well. The first lesson was to a very able year 7 class. It was a long lesson (75 minutes) and we got a lot done. At the start of the lesson not everyone knew what a ratio was, but by the end they could all write ratios, work out ratios from pictures, split amounts into two part ratios and the majority of the class could split them into three part ratios.…
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