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Raising the Digital Generation - What Can Parents Do?

The other day I was fortunate enough to experience a Parent Coffee Morning, run regularly (first Wednesday of each month) by our school. This particular day had three workshops running, Summer Reading, Summer Math & Summer Technology and parents rotated through each session in 30 minute slots. We had over 50 parents attend which [...]

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 [...]

Big Footsteps to Follow In

As I lay awake each night contemplating my next big step in the International Teaching Circuit, (ES Technology Learning Coach – name change from Facilitator to Learning Coach was my idea) I’m thinking ……

image attribution: teachingsagittarian

…….. my fabulous friend and colleague, Kim Cofino, will no longer be the 21st Century Literacy Specialist (Elementary School) and [...]

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 [...]

2009/365 Flickr Photo Challenge

Cross-posted at Eye To Eye

Today is the last day of the 2009/365 flickr photo challenge. I’m disappointed in myself because I made it to 263 and didn’t finish the challenge. Since October, 2009 I haven’t been as disciplined as taking a photo a day. Below is a sample of the 263 photos I [...]

CoETaIL – Course 3 – Final Project

Wow – the end of another course – Course 4 starting next week!!  The purpose of this post is to reflect on the experience of designing this unit/presentation.

To be honest in my reflection,  I need to say first that I’ve really struggled keeping up with Course 3.  It’s not that I don’t understand parts of it [...]

Back in the Saddle

After a very long (self-imposed) break from blogging, the start of Course 3 of our CoETaIL.asia group means I’m back in the saddle again!

Our first blog post requires to us to reflect on implementation of ideas learned during the past two courses.  There’s are the essential questions:

What have you tried/are trying in your classrooms?
How has this [...]

Do You Know Where Your Footprints Are?

Ding Ding …… Round Course Two begins for CoETaIL.Asia

Enduring Understandings:

Online behaviors and actions impact the access and safety of personal information.

Responsible use of online tools can help protect the personal information of others.

Essential Question:

When and where should we be teaching students about their digital footprint?

This weeks readings were from Kim Komondo’s Your Online Reputation Can Hurt [...]

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