Chase the Future 2041 Green Screen Station
The team ran a Green Screen station at the May 3rd Chase the Future year-end celebration. Using an app called Touchcast, and some plastic tableclothes from the Dollar Store, students reported on their projects. You can view the finished products in this playlist:
From the Club to the Classroom – mrjarbenne
.entry-header So many of the things we run as clubs make great classroom activities. How do we take the opportunities out of clubs, and find ways to integrate them deeply into classroom practice? Newspapers I was supporting a school recently on launching a school newspaper club. What might that look like as a classroom activity?…
From the Club to the Classroom
So many of the things we run as clubs make great classroom activities. How do we take the opportunities out of clubs, and find ways to integrate them deeply into classroom practice? Newspapers I was supporting a school recently on launching a school newspaper club. What might that look like as a classroom activity? I’m…
OER Repository on the Commons: A “Brief” History
TLDR; Version: Go visit https://oer.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/ Over the past few weeks, Andrew Kelly and I have been working together on Version 2.0 3.0 of a new Open Educational Resources Repository on the Commons. This continuing work dates back to 2015, when the 21CL team here @HWDSB began planning the Professional Development sessions for a roll-out of…
Why WordPress in Education
I’ve noticed the topic of WordPress in Education recently in my Twitter feed. @Jeffr0 over on WP Tavern was recently polling his followers for info on the type of CMS (Content Management Systems) used by schools, along with the cost to run such platforms. Here at Hamilton Wentworth District School Board, we are big WordPress…
Some Thoughts On Professional Development (upon rolling out iPads to Grade 9 students)
“But there is another reason why people abhor the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it. They won’t all learn the same things!” “The people who are horrified by (this idea) have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember…