I’ve been using Github for a couple of years now to connect with our developer on the HWDSB Commons. We post a lot of code there, sharing it with the rest of the WordPress and BuddyPress community. For those of you unfamiliar with Github, this is how they describe their platform: GitHub is how people …
Category archives: Pedagogy
Innovation vs Consistency
I wrote a post recently about the different tools we have available in the school board. You can read it here: The Complexity of Choice This is a popular conversation in the 21CL team here at HWDSB, and it is happening with renewed vigor as I redesign a landing page for the HUB (the HUB …
The Complexity of Choice
I spoke at a school recently where a teacher indicated that the amount of platforms we have available at the board was paralyzing, and that not knowing where to begin, they choose to do nothing instead. I was troubled by this of course. Our intent is to provide a rich tool kit to attend to …
Templates for Newcomers
I’ve been pulling together a series of posts regarding Explain Everything as a format for creating templates. In that series I’ve attempted to expand on some methods to create templates, and established a space to share those templates with others. You can read those posts here: Let’s take that workflow, and apply it to an …
Creating Templates With Explain Everything
This is turning into a bit of a series of posts to properly cover templates in Explain Everything. I’ve just finished writing a post on how to share these types of resources in a centralized location. Once I had created that centralized space, I realized I needed to create a template to test out the …
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iMovie Isn’t Redefinition
Tim Kivell and I presented today at the Hamilton Wentworth Principals Conference, summarizing lessons learned after three years orchestrating PD plans for the schools directly involved in the technology facet of the Transforming Learning Everywhere initiatives here at the school board. These are the slides we presented, but slides can only tell half the story, …