Like many out there in the education/technology landscape I’m quite interested in the upcoming release of Apple’s iPad. I make it no secret that I’m a supporter of Apple products for learning – I’ve personally seen the impact of Apple’s products in the classroom. And this is mostly because I find that the Apple...
Read more »

This friday morning, 11am (MST) I’m giving a one – hour presentation to a group of pre-service teachers from the University of Calgary. I’ll be talking about the Galileo Inquiry Rubric, and using my Cigar Box Project as a case study in designing large scale, multi-disciplinary inquiry work. Tonight I had the idea to...
Read more »

This week I started a new grade 8 class at my school, CSS News. While I know that many, many schools have been producing student new broadcasts for a long time, I’m really excited about getting ours off the ground. One particular thing I’m looking forward to: tomorrow afternoon I’ve been invited by a...
Read more »

As part of our Collaboration and Outreach Program, the Calgary Science School is creating and sharing podcasts and PDF handouts of inquiry-based lessons designed by our teachers. We encourage feedback, comments and dialogue on the materials we publish. The first podcast is now available over at Connect! This podcast contains one approach to assessing...
Read more »

Thanks to Befuddled for pointing this out! One of the things I love about using Google Tools is they are continually adding features to their products. Recently, (to me anyway!) Google added a couple of alternative ways to present the results of a Google Search. Both are visually based, and both present the information...
Read more »

Those of you who follow this blog will know that the focus of my own grade 7 classroom over the last couple years has been the Cigar Box Project. Basically, this involves the remixing of primary source images into new creations, each one expressing students’ understanding of four different themes in Canadian history. The...
Read more »

Just finished looking at one of my grade 7 student’s historical Glogster assignment that they’ve worked on over the last month. You can read about how I set up the assignment here. I was so blown away by this student’s work. She includes a great deal of specific historical details, and the work obviously...
Read more »

Image from Flickr: Laurie::Liquid Paper I’ve been a 1:1 teacher for the last three years, and feel incredibly lucky to work in a school that has a forward-looking approach to technology integration. This means I’ve had the permission and resources to experiment with any applications and webtools that I see fit. Capturing Student Voice...
Read more »

I’ve been looking for a way to embed documents into my blog. Over the last couple months, (such a seasoned blogger now..) I’ve been taking pictures of documents and putting them in flickr, then putting those links into my posts. I’ve felt this was a clunky approach and sensed that there must be a...
Read more »

Here at school we’re in the middle of our student-led conferences. In my classroom, students are sharing some of the work they have produced over the last 3 months, and without planning it, I realized that different web tools are the foundation of how students are sharing their learning with their parents. Students are...
Read more »