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Sustainability - Taking Action (4)

(Reflection Post 4 CoETaIL Course 5)

Today we spent a 45 minute session watching and peer-reviewing each others’ completed PSAs. Unfortunately, due to two days of closure right before our Songkran break, we needed to export our iMovie projects to a finished product BEFORE a peer-review. I would be extremely hesitant to export again before a peer-review. [...]

Sustainability – Take Action

(Reflection Post 3 CoETaIL Course 5)

We’re almost at the end of our Grade 5 PSA making adventure for our Sustainability Unit – Time to take action!

Our proposed timeline was:

1 x session to Investigate
2-4 x sessions to Plan (invest the majority of your time in this stage – the better prepared your students are in this storyboard [...]

Sustainability - Take Action!

(Reflection Post 2 CoETaIL Course 5)

Grade 5 is using a google doc to help each other teach our students the technology skills required in order to complete the Culminating Project for our Environments/Sustainability Unit for Science/Social Studies.

In pairs or as individuals, our students will be creating PSAs (Public Service Announcements).They will need to analyze one aspect [...]

CoETaIL Course 5 Begins

The final project for Course 4 of CoETaIL was to create a unit and assessment based around our content area that addresses ISB TAIL Standards (Technology and Information Literacy).

The Grade 5 CoETaIL cohorts, Teresa, Robin, Dan and myself, along with our fellow Grade 5 team members, Jim, Ali, and Sandra have put together this culminating project for [...]

Managing Peripherals

Week 5: November 29 – December 5

Essential Question: How do you manage the use of technology peripherals with students? What are some things you’ve learned and hope to implement.

There’s three things in the classroom that I just can’t do without.

Students
SMARTBoard
Document Camera

We manage all of them the same way we manage anything: with procedures, clear expectations and [...]

How Do You Manage IT?

Week 4: November 22-28

Essential Question: What are ways you manage the use of laptops in your classroom and what additional best practice ways might you add?

Simple, clear procedures have always worked for me for any kind of classroom management whether it be with laptops or without. Here’s just a few tips and tricks I use when [...]

NET.s - What Does That Really Mean for Teachers?

Week 3 November 15 – 21:

Our Essential Question: How relevant are the NETs for Teachers and Administrators to being a “Good Educator” today?

We’ve been asked to read NETs for Teachers, NETs for Administrators, and an article relating to ISTE’s unveiling of Next Generation of Technology Standards for Administrators.

In essence, the NETs for Teachers [...]

How Do You Know?

Week: Nov 8-14

Essential Question: How do the ISB TAIL Standards fit in with content learning and instruction happening in classrooms at ISB?

We were asked to analyze the ISB Technology and Information Literacy (TAIL) Standards and determine where they fit in with content learning, age appropriateness, and assessment design. How can teachers and schools ensure that their [...]

Who's Job Is It Anyway?

Our Essential Questions for today’s session:

How do the NETs and AASL standards address the needs of a successful learner?
Who’s job is it to teach the NETs and AASL standards to students?

The NETs (National Education Technology Standards) are from ISTE (International Society Technology in Education) and the AASL standards are from the American Association of School [...]