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Tech Committee PD Day
Posted by Mandi MacLennan on January 19, 2012 at 11:02am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Enjoying a lovely PD day with my fellow tech committee colleagues (Corey, Peter, Ben, Lee, Jason, Sherrie, and Cheryl). Today we reviewed/learned/shared/played with:
Twitter/Tweetdeck- for educational purposes
Todaysmeet- virtual meeting/back chat
BiodigitalHuman- awesome visual science resource of the human body, its systems, and conditions
VoiceThread- visual and audio project medium
Edmodo- educational Facebook!
Pinterest- Sharing…
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Digital Revolution
Posted by Wesley Oginski on December 14, 2011 at 9:27am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Read Ian Quillen's blog on "SETDA's Levin: Digital Classrooms Sooner Than Later" (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2011/12/setdas_levin_classrooms_digita.html), about the transition to digital content and textbooks/resources in education is inevitable. He is right - textbooks and paper bound resources are going the way of the dodo bird. …
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Is Tech a boon or a burden in the classroom?
Posted by sherrie on November 30, 2011 at 5:26pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Globe & Mail is looking for feedback.
Please vote: is tech a boon or a burden in classrooms http://t.co/dxsLW1xQ
EdCamp: Why you should attend?
Posted by Lee Winik on November 9, 2011 at 1:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Sherrie actually asked me to let everyone know about what happens at an Edcamp, so I thought I would share this with you:
EdCamp is a teacher directed form of professional development which would closely resemble a professional learning community meeting. There is no theme for the conference, there are no experts, there are no keynotes. It is a day of discussion and sharing about issues educators care about.
The way this camp was…
Motion Leadership
Posted by Wesley Oginski on October 18, 2011 at 9:01am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Been reading Motion Leadership, the resource beingused with this year's Northland Leadership Program. Chapter 3 resonated in terms og change experience I have experienced in my career. The tenet of "ready-fir-aim" seems counterintuitive, but if you do not begin to act, then you can spend all your time planning to accomplish nothing. A change initiative needs to be a shared responsibility - and buildingthat shared ownership is a key component. To so requires constant ongoing 2-way… Continue
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Literacy Angels event Jan 27, 2012
Details are at LiteracyAngels.net
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BrainPOP iPad, iPod, iPhone app
There is an iPad, iPhone, and iPod app called BrainPOP Featured Movie that enables mobile access to BrainPOP’s full collection of more than 750 movies and quizzes. Get it on iTunes or here: bit.ly/cOXMMS You'll need northland61's login and our brainpop password to access it.
VIDEOS for educators in Alberta:
Share the Alberta Education videos with colleagues, parents and the community. These videos illustrate the benefits of technology use in the classroom.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) videos
http://www.udlcenter.org/resource_library/videos/udlcenter/udl#video0
Assessment Tool for FNMI Content and Validation
Wondering if a book or website is culturally appropriate or historically accurate or not?
Here is a Common Tool for Assessing and Validating Teaching and Learning Resources for Cultural Appropriateness and Historical Accuracy of First Nations, Métis and Inuit Content:
http://wncp.ca/media/49329/wncptool_%20assessing_validating.pdf
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sherrie commented on sbuchner's group 'Technology'
Northland's Educational Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC) met in January 2012 and discussed what matters in the education of Northland students. We took 30 minutes to simultaneously collaborate on this presentation:…
Tech Committee PD Day
Enjoying a lovely PD day with my fellow tech committee colleagues (Corey, Peter, Ben, Lee, Jason, Sherrie, and Cheryl). Today we reviewed/learned/shared/played with:Twitter/Tweetdeck- for educational purposesTodaysmeet- virtual meeting/back chatBiodigitalHuman- awesome visual science resource of the human body, its systems, and conditionsVoiceThread- visual and audio project mediumEdmodo- educational Facebook!Pinterest- Sharing ideasMuseum Box- Cool virtual app which would be great for Social…See More
Blog post by Mandi MacLennan
Mandi MacLennan commented on Mandi MacLennan's video
Not the most groundbreaking presentation, but gets the point across.
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