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Let Go of Control Through Twitter
I set up this Twitter account (@stmarylibrary) last August and have been using it to share the wonderful activities that take place at my school every day. This has allowed me to make many...
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Skype With Students – It’s A No Brainer
This past week we connected a laptop to the Smartboard in our library and my grade 4 students participated in a Skype call for the first time, engaging in a wonderful dialogue with Ms. Witherspoon’s...
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Teachers – Invite Them and They Will Tweet
For some time now I’ve been preaching to my teachers about the benefits of Twitter. Since opening my own account in May 2011 I would say that I’ve grown more as an educator than in the previous 20...
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The Difficult Struggle of Letting Go
I recently read this post by Will Richardson where he described the bold 21st century transformation of a Nevada charter school as one “…not fully understanding the shift to self-directed, personal...
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Our Next Engaging Project
It’s amazing how being a connected educator can lead to learning experiences that one may never have imagined in the past. Roy Fernandez is the principal of St. Henry School in Toronto. I met Roy for...
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Observations on ETMOOC Week 1 – People, Processes and Stuff
For a few years now I have been following the annual Horizon Report. The internationally recognized New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report is a comprehensive research venture established in 2002...
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The Power of a Single Tweet
Last week a team of three amazing educators from Randolph Middle School in Charlotte, North Carolina spent two day at my little school in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. This unlikely relationship has...
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Need Ideas? Just Ask.
My grade 1-3 teachers have been planning for next year and are looking for creative and engaging ways to build a literacy intervention block into the daily schedule. Language Arts and Math would be...
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Let Go of Control Through Twitter
I set up this Twitter account (@stmarylibrary) last August and have been using it to share the wonderful activities that take place at my school every day. This has allowed me to make many...
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Skype With Students – It’s A No Brainer
This past week we connected a laptop to the Smartboard in our library and my grade 4 students participated in a Skype call for the first time, engaging in a wonderful dialogue with Ms. Witherspoon’s...
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Teachers – Invite Them and They Will Tweet
For some time now I’ve been preaching to my teachers about the benefits of Twitter. Since opening my own account in May 2011 I would say that I’ve grown more as an educator than in the previous 20...
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The Difficult Struggle of Letting Go
I recently read this post by Will Richardson where he described the bold 21st century transformation of a Nevada charter school as one “…not fully understanding the shift to self-directed, personal...
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When Learning Goes Viral
This past Friday was my districts second Collab Day of the year. That’s right, Collab Day. That’s our common language here – we refer to the district-wide professional development day as a Collab Day....
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Let Go of Control Through Twitter
I set up this Twitter account (@stmarylibrary) last August and have been using it to share the wonderful activities that take place at my school every day. This has allowed me to make many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Skype With Students – It’s A No Brainer
This past week we connected a laptop to the Smartboard in our library and my grade 4 students participated in a Skype call for the first time, engaging in a wonderful dialogue with Ms. Witherspoon’s...
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Teachers – Invite Them and They Will Tweet
For some time now I’ve been preaching to my teachers about the benefits of Twitter. Since opening my own account in May 2011 I would say that I’ve grown more as an educator than in the previous 20...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Difficult Struggle of Letting Go
I recently read this post by Will Richardson where he described the bold 21st century transformation of a Nevada charter school as one “…not fully understanding the shift to self-directed, personal...
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Sunday Morning Asynchronous Learning
This quick post is intended to highlight the power of Twitter as a way to draw a diverse group of passionate educators together around an educational topic. This morning, just before 9 a.m. a teacher...
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