Yesterday my wife and I did something we haven’t done in quite a long time – we attended a church service. One of the...
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Yesterday morning I had my first experience of delivering a lesson over Skype. Previously, I’ve used Skype in the classroom to have my students talk to experts, most notably with Sheldon Posen at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, but this was the first time I was on the other end of the Skype line....
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I’m excited about a site that was recently blogged about discussing the concept of remixing in relation to some of Marshal McLuhan’s ideas. As I’m working through my master’s degree, I’m becoming more and more interested in the concept of remixing in K-12, particularly in light of the “historical remixing” that I think is...
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After trying to use iChat unsucessfully a number of times to have our student collaborate with Rocky View School division, yesterday I had my students upload their current iMovie projects into Voicethread in give and receive feedback. Unfortunately, our school bandwidth was not making the use of Voicethread very successful either. So today I...
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Tomorrow morning I’m teaching my first lesson over Skype. As part of the collaborative project my students are doing with Rockyview School division, I’m introducing Mr. Hill’s students to the “Canada in a Box” site as well as the role that the sketchbooks played in making our Cigar Boxes last year. Here’s the Skype recording...
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I’m starting this blog with the collaboration that I’m working on with Mr. Hill from the Rocky View School Division. After hearing me talk about the Cigar Box project last year, he thought it would be something he’d like to take on as well – and he’s been an amazing partner to go through...
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The Cigar Box Project was a year-long, Canadian History project embedded in inquiry-based, 1:1 classroom. The Cigar Box Project has won two national teaching awards, and has been presented, locally and internationally. In doing the project, students lived the disciplines of historical thinking, information literacy and graphic design as they used 21st Century tools...
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