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Get Your Students Stripping: A Simple Review of Online Comic Creation Websites

  Created in under a minute on http://www.toondoo.com   About a year ago someone asked me for software suggestions to create comic strips.  At the time I had no personal experience making these...

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Presentation: Managing Your Digital Tattoo

I held a session on Friday with Danny Maas for grade 5 and 6 students in our district.  We were asked to speak to digital citizenship, and so given the timeframe we focused on the idea of a digital...

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6 Reasons and 3 Tips: Making Cartoons In School

The most popular post in the short history of this blog was Get Your Students Stripping: A Simple Review of Online Comic Creation Websites back in May 2010.  I wanted to honour it by posting some...

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8 Reasons, 7 Tips and A Rubric: The Digital Literature Circle

Maybe you’ve heard of a literature circle before – the idea is that students sit in small groups (maybe 4/5, depending on the needs of students), and talk about a piece of literature they’ve been...

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Story Telling In Science Class

I would like to quickly share with you this video on biomagnification. I believe is a pretty good example of how someone has taken facts and created an interesting story.  The video is fun to watch,...

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Presentation: Developing Academic Rigour with Social Media

As presented at the 2010 ATA Science Council Conference at the Fantasy Land Hotel (Edmonton, Alberta). Below is an overview of the presentation that will be updated in more detail after the...

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How Prezi Can Change Your World (or keep you boring)

When I first was introduced to Prezi ‘way back when’ I thought it was so awesome, as most of you I’m sure can understand. It’s clean, simple to use, it looks great, and it’s pretty solid regarding...

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Getting High School Kids To Talk “Math”

  Today I had the pleasure of working with a dedicated and gifted first year teacher. Tim is doing an impressive job teaching pre-calculus grade 11 and 12 math; he has well prepared lessons and...

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7 Reasons, 6 Tips and 3 Uses: Wikis In The Classroom

It’s been a while since I’ve used wikis in a class (last May I believe), so I thought I needed to remind myself why I liked using them and how I made it work by writing a blog post. If you find this...

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How Social Media Can Develop 21st Century Skills

Saturday from 5:15 pm – 6:15 pm, Moscone Centre, Room 113 Bring Your Laptops! In a few more than 24 hours, I will be presenting at the 2011 ASCD Annual Conference with my colleague, Susana Gerndt. The...

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