Readers Adapt Their Strategies for Reading Online

At UWCSEA East, we have been implementing Reading Workshop (also known as Reader’s Workshop) to help our students develop into fluent, capable and effective readers. Our Literacy Coach Michelle Goodison has been supporting teachers in this framework, and a lot of professional development has occurred to help teachers introduce the strategies that help students best…

More Minecraft Musings

Want to know what our kids are capable of achieving in just over a week? Here are some photos to show you some parts of our world!  An aerial view of our world I believe this is a Spleef Arena (but will need to clarify!) Rain on our plane A flotilla of boats Our Minecraft…

Massively Misunderstood Minecraft

Overheard in the lab: “My Mum says she can’t believe UWC is offering a Minecraft activity. She says it’s a waste of time.”Me: <breathe> DM from @jplaman:   Me: <breathe> I guess it’s time! This blog post is proving hard to write. I have rewritten this paragraph about 14 times, mostly because I am trying…

Getting Connected – the Why and How

Why? Screenshot via sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl The question of why connect is an important one for us to consider. Of course, being connected can lead you to lots of great resources and ideas for lessons, but what we are really talking about here is connecting with people. It is through these personal connections that you can build…

Dealing with distraction, 5 tools to help you get things done

We have chosen to give our students in grade six upwards their own Macbook. This has obvious benefits to their learning allowing them to create, collaborate and communicate with digital tools that they always have at their disposal.  However, as Spiderman said: There’s no question that digital tools can be tremendously distracting. Our students have…

doing more with diigo

Diigo is a great way to keep track of all of your bookmarks in the cloud so that they can be readily pulled up on any device connected to the Internet. Yes, and…  there’s a whole lot more that it can do. Diigo works best when it’s tools are integrated right in to your browser. …

Hello DiigoYour tasks for today will be to: – sign up (with an educational account) – create a bookmark – think about using effective tags – join the UWC Teacher Group So what is Diigo?Diigo is a social bookmarking tool that allows us to organize, store, manage, and search online resources. Diigo allows us to…

Date Night – Top Apps for Global Travelers

The following Apps are my pics for Best Travel Apps Ever, and ones I will be putting to good use this summer when I travel to Europe. TripIt – One of the easiest & most useful travel apps is TripIt. You simply forward your flight confirmations and/or hotel bookings, and TripIt will put together a…