Thoughts on the Digital Program Consultant Role

The work of the Digital Integrated Program Consultant should be to ensure the integration of digital tools is always done as a means to improve student achievement, in coordination with curriculum aligned, pedagogical best practices. Although there are other facets to the role, the primary focus should be on professional development , and fostering the…

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It’s time to try something new

It was a three year gig. That's what John Laverty — the superintendent at the time — told me, in the principal's office at Dundas Central when he offered me the job back in 2010. He said I would need to be thinking about what I wanted to do next, which seemed ludicrous, having just…

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A screenshot of explain everything template.

Introduce Yourself

We were asked to sort out a means of having members of the Learning Services team introduce themselves to each other in a digital way on the first day back to school. The workflow created may be helpful for those of you looking for a digital way for your students to tell you a bit…

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The Student Blog Quandry

When we first set out to build the Commons, it was with the inspiration of other projects like the CUNY Academic Commons, and the Domain of One’s Own project headed up by Jim Groom among others,  which at the time was a small project happening at Mary Washington University. The ideals behind that project has…

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H5P at HWDSB

The 21CL team has been exploring different means of creating interactive templates and tools to use in your practice. The results of this work have culminated in a number of different initiatives that we will be sharing, both in the coming weeks, and further into the next school year (https://share.school, https://hwdsb.press, H5P, Explain Everything Templates).…

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