I don’t know if you’re like me – I have been immersed in a technology school for five years, and so the different tools and applications that I get to play with have become almost second nature. While it’s sometimes sad (ask my wife), my laptop has become an extension of my brain –...
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After reading a post by my blogging friend Jared Nichol about downloading new blogspot templates, I thought I’d give it a go this morning and try a new look for my blog. After 3 hours of playing around, I finally got my blog back to looking normal! I had to re-install all of my...
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This week I had my students use Voicethread to provide feedback on the latest round of their cigar box panels. A little bit about how this worked – the students were put in groups (combined editing groups from across my two Humanities classes) and asked to provide specific and detailed feedback to their peers....
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Over the last few days, my students have been watching each other’s historical iMovies in class.  After weeks of researching, editing and planning, its always great to see them come together. The focus of these particular movies was the Early European explorers and settlers in Canada – and the students had to determine the...
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Over the last six weeks, students in my class have been given a number of opportunities to provide feedback to their peers, as they have worked on different parts of the Cigar Box Project.  Over the last few years I have been impacted by some of the great work done by Anne Davies on...
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Today, myself and another teacher from my school gave a presentation at the University of Calgary to the first-year student teachers in the faculty of Education. We were asked to talk about assessment – particularly ways that ongoing, formative assessment practices can be embedded into inquiry-based projects. Assessment is Central to Good Teaching We...
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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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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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