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…
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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…
iPads in K1
“…joy in life doesn’t usually come in long stretches for hours at a time, month after month, year after year . . . but in moments.”– unknown K1 HKi used the iPads to take photographs as we went on a number hunt around our school. We found lots of numbers in our environment: “Look, on…
Making Learning Visible – Mobile Video in PE
How do you know what you look like when performing a physical skill? This is a question I ask myself again and again on the golf course when the round ends up going south. Was it my elbow, my grip, am I shifting my feet, not keeping my head down? For anybody who’s watched an…
Voicethread Log In
Don’t you hate it when you have a plan and it doesn’t quite work out the way you want it to? Well, that’s what happened to us on Wednesday during the Staff PD session. Who knew the iPad Voicethread App would give us a hard time? We don’t know why the app wasn’t letting some…
Formula for the Best Parent Workshop
(Cross-posted at Tip of the Iceberg) This little gem of an idea, came to the Digital Literacy Team at UWCSEA via Robyn Treyvaud, who had been visiting our school to work on the initiation of our generation safe project. Robyn’s idea – so obvious I don’t know why we hadn’t thought of it before –…
Great IWB Resource
Noah Katz, one of the Digital Literacy Coaches at Dover came across this fantastic resource which he shared with me. Triptico (designed by David Riley) is a FREE download which works very nicely in conjunction with IWBs. The free download gives you a number of desktop resources which are fully customizable. What I love about them…