Last Friday, September 7 was my birthday, and I took a day off, yeah, it was awesome. And I shared my day with my daughter, my nephew and some friends. And had a party with my PLN, I even got roses from Greece.…
Team Teaching – A Seusstastic Start!
Edmodo’s Healing Power
My Summer of Learning
I grew a lot as a teacher this summer. From stepping out of my comfort zone to teach 6 year olds in summer school for the first time, to doing a lot of professional reading, to taking another graduate course at SFU.
An Animoto About Me
10 Ideas for Classroom Video Projects
…“… ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.”
Today is “Retreat day”… words of the day are effective teams and transformation…
Today is our Centre for Teaching and Learning Retreat day… we don’t normally set aside one whole day at this very busy time of the year but we are starting off a year with a larger team, a strategic initiative (College e-learning strategy which focuses on blended learning), and a focus on transforming teaching and learning practices.…
steps for the future
Acompanho com interesse uma serie de postagens do Steve Wheeler.
Enfim, tudo que gira em torno da Educação do futuro a mim interessa.
Em sua primeira postagem o autor nos chama a atenção para o fato da grande disponibilidade de conhecimento neste nosso mundo digital e nos interroga em como será a sobrevivência das instituições universitárias.…
Two notes on dialectology
I just came across this article on the divergence of American English in the Great Lakes region. I’m not familiar with the dialect, but its vowel system is apparently diverging from standard American English more quickly than other dialects; cf. words like cot and caught with different vowels, unlike in my own dialect.…
What seemed like a simple request…
Late August is a busy busy time of the year in education. There is lots of hustle and bustle to get courses, spaces and technology organized for the start of the new year.
Yesterday I recieved a pretty typical request by email for some help that at first appeared to be about how to make better use of our college LMS (Learning Management System).…