Recapping The Learning Spaces Book Club Meeting 1

Our first three texts Getting spaced out: We started this journey by hosting consultant Maija Ruokanen (revisit her teachings in this episode of podcast UWCLearn). The DLCs then fanned those fuels as our in house #uwclearn spacebusters. Most recently a cohort of teachers across the college met last Friday to talk about our very first read…

What if we podcastified our PD?

How do we make our learning audible? This past weekend, the Dover Campus hosted an annual iPad conference (see @ipadk5 #ipadk5 via Twitter for more). In the second episode of ‘Podcast UWCLearn’ Keri-Lee and Dave reflect on their learning experiences and offer their thoughts on where to next. This post hosts that episode with two agendas:…

Great PD Offerings for Digital Literacy

We are excited to inform you about some wonderful opportunities for professional development in Digital Literacy that are coming up this year. Please see below regarding details, and remember to fill in a Professional Development Application Form should you wish to be considered. SeptemberGoogle Apps for Education Summit  SAS, Singapore6 & 7th September 2014Target Audience: K-12…

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…

2011 Global Education Conference

We’d like to promote a wonderful professional development opportunity available online, focused on Global Education, for FREE.  It’s time for the 2011 Global Education Conference! The conference kicks off Tuesday at 12:00AM with a keynote from Alan November and continues all week with online sessions every hour around the clock.  This schedule link is in…

Show Me The Learning

The Digital Literacy Coaches have put together a site for today’s Professional Learning day centred around ways we can demonstrate student and teacher learning. Please click the link below to access the site. https://sites.google.com/a/gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg/show-me-the-learning/

5 Fab Ideas for Effective Online Research

Over the past few days, UWCSEA has been lucky enough to have Apple Guru Kathleen Ferenz visit our school. She has been a fabulous resource for me personallyas a Digital Literacy Coach, but also for the groups of teachers she has worked with. One of Kathleen’s many strengths is in Literacy, and she has given…

Presentations – design matters

During our Professional Learning meeting in the Primary School, we focused on improving our presentations to parents. Our core message was that less is more. We encouraged teachers to think from the perspective of their audience, and focused on 2 easy ways to improve the design of presentations: Use fabulous images Use less text Fazree…