Pixar: The Art of Storytelling We are all storytellers. Here is your chance to learn from the master storytellers at Pixar through this Khan Academy course which takes you through the process of telling an effective story. There are videos and activities that make this a great process for you and your students regardless of…
Month: February 2017
Follow along with the Learning Spaces Book Club
What do our learning spaces say about our learning? I’ve begun to assemble a Flipboard on Learning Spaces. This magazine is meant to compliment the broader reading the Learning Spaces Book Club will do. Our first text, is on it’s way here: feel free to read along with us, and join us in the #uwcLearnSpaces conversation to be,…
Friday Friendly Advice: Google Slides to co-author an eBook?
Google is great and getting better and better. Did you know you can change the size of a slide in Google Slides to build an eBook? STEP ONE: Go to file, and select ‘Page Setup’ STEP TWO: select ‘custom’ and resize your slide STEP THREE: edit your book, set up a template and share: you…
Digital Bytes 20th February 2017
Kindness: A Lesson Plan The folks at Edutopia have put together another great article on ways of incorporating more kindness into your classroom. With detailed suggestions and resources, you are bound to get some new ideas to enhance your personal and social education lessons. We could all use a little more kindness in our lives….
Digital Bytes – 13th February 2017
Apple Teacher Apple recently launched their Apple Teacher programme – a series of self-paced professional development modules for educators. Gain badges which help move you to becoming an Apple Teacher for Mac and/or for iPad. Commenting in Google Docs Take your commenting in Google Docs to the next level. Many people know that you can…
Friday Friendly: Bloggers from Outer space…
If you’ve recently been thinking about ways to make use of ePortfolios next year..or next month: this post’s for you. Wait. Back up a minute. Why should we use online portfolios? In addition to inherent components of reflection, which traditionally have been viewed as internal (thinking about one’s own learning and that thinking primarily benefiting ourselves),…
Podcasting our Book Club Conversations
Book Club conversations are an important part of a UWCSEA literacy education. Thinking deeply about a shared text, sharing understandings and connections, and – crucially – listening to the perspectives of others, all contributes to our reading experiences. As teachers, we know these conversations are valuable, but we can only be in one place at…
Digital Bytes 6th February, 2017
Teaching Reading and Thinking Skills with Photographs Take a look at the 10 photographs in this New York Times article and the accompanying mini lessons to help build your students reading and thinking skills. After you take your students through the lessons you can share more images from the New York Times section, What’s Going…