In the next few days the chaos of changing communications infrastructure is going to grip HWDSB. We are about to replace First Class (the email and conferencing software that has been utilized at the school board since I started working here 10 years ago). Regardless of the amount of planning and work that goes into …
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#ONTSM
There was a conference taking place today, hosted by Pearson, and focused on Social Media use in Education. In the spirit of full disclosure, I need admit that I was invited to this conference, but couldn’t go due to a previous engagement presenting with Aaron Puley on Raising Responsible Digital Citizens at the Ontario Federation of Home and …
Bump-it-up Blog Wall (for Teachers)
We talk about Performance Walls, and “Bump-it-Up” walls when we start thinking about how we can display exemplars for students to gauge what they need to do in order to improve their work; the idea being that if the students can see the target, and it stays in one place, they should be better able …
Commons Inservice at EK
I was out at Earl Kitchener last night for an after school in-service. @ggill and @ctstewar — two teachers who have been early adopters on the Commons — had arranged to pull their teachers together to show them this new tool, and it seemed like a great opportunity to run the site through its paces, …