Please Note:

The views expressed here are entirely my own and in no way represent the views of my employer.
skitch.com logo

Categories

CoETaIL Course 5 Project Final Post

As our CoETail certificate course comes to an end, as does our final project post.

As mentioned in previous posts, our whole 5th Grade team willingly took on a Science/Social Studies technology rich project for our Sustainability Unit of Study.

Using iMovie, every 5th grade student, either in a group, pair or individually, created a Public Service Announcement [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

There is nothing more powerful than a digital story.  I love ‘em.  I love the combination of voice, music, and images.  I love the planning and the creativity that goes into telling a digital story and I LOVE the fact the digital stories are much easier to share with family and friends.

Daniel H Pink, in his [...]

Changing the Teaching & Learning Landscape

How has the explosion of web based video changed the teaching and learning landscape?

We had two links to explore for this question.  The first, an article in the NY Times Magazine by Kevin Kelly, Becoming Screen Literate.  He states

Screens are everywhere …………… These ever-present screens have created an audience for very short moving pictures, as brief [...]

Screencasting in the Classroom

It’s been a couple of years since I last made a screencast.  I find them incredibly useful for tutorials – especially to help students complete tasks at home or during their “downtime” in the classroom.

We have a variety of free tools at our finger tips for recording screencasts – which are essentially  “just in time” screen-capture [...]

PresentationZen

Our CoETaIL leaders (aka: Kim Cofino & Jeff Utecht) have asked us to reflect on a presentation we have created in the past looking at how we would implement new visual presentations techniques to better communicate your message to your audience.

One of the best books I bought over the “Summer” break was Garr Reynolds‘ book,  presentationzen [...]

Using an Appropriate Image

CoETaIL Blogging Assignment:  Sept 14-20th

Use Creative Commons image search to find an appropriate image to use in at least one of the classes you teach. Include this image in a blog post and share how you plan to use it in the classroom. How can visual imagery support your curricular content?

Our Enduring Understandings:

Design and layout [...]

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 [...]

Mass Collaboration

Course 2:  April 20-26

Essential Questions
Are we preparing students for a world of Mass Collaboration?
How do we prepare students for a world of Mass Collaboration?
Does ISBs AUP take this issue into account?

As we made our way through looking at a wealth of pre-prepared links I began to wonder whether the majority of these sites were truely mass [...]

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes