Sometimes a book just excites you. I’ll grant you, I’m a total pedagogy nerd, so a lot of books excite me, but this book has me thinking a lot about the types of tasks I do in Pre-Calculus, and I highly recommend it. I heard about this book through an interview on Think Thank Thunk, […]
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Oh yeah, I have a blog! I should use that more! I did a really cool and, I think, meaningful project with my Foundations of Math 11 class this year, one that I think is worth sharing. I teach grade 11/12 physics and math at a public school that emphasizes project-based, authentic, interdisciplinary learning, but
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I’ve been neglecting my blog, but I’ve had such a good Pro-D day that I have to document the cool stuff I did today! I attended the BC Science Teachers Association Catalyst Conference today, and despite some technical issues (like the whole web platform for all the PSA conferences going down), it was a great
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Here is a collection of animation excerpts that I think are good quality and show a range of styles and techniques. I’ll be updating as I find more cool things to add over time. Sita Sings the Blues (excerpt): Tweening-style animation mimicking Javanese shadow puppets. One of the more interesting/creative uses of this Flash style
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As I reach the end of my Librarian as Technology Leader course, I present some artifacts of my learning that demonstrate connections to the ISTE Standards for Educators. These pages have the following format: The artifact, or a brief summary for text posts. Know: The skills and knowledge required to create the product, as well
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My goodness, the amount of culling it took to even get the list down this much was exhausting.
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This assignment was to create a version of the uTec or LIIIITE model for a library learning commons. For my purposes, I chose to focus on what adoption looks like at different levels for the three vision points I identified last time (that is, tech integration, collaboration, and inquiry). I imagine that this would be
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For this assignment, I was asked to design three logos for my LLC redesign (the TLDR is a bigger focus on design thinking). Here are the three I came up with. As you can tell, they were created in the free version of Freelogodesign.org. If I were to actually have a library and be using
I looked at three main sources to get an idea about what the advantages of global projects were. These sources had an emphasis on service learning and student empowerment, so I tended to steer in that direction. The comic was created in Canva. The sources were: iEARN TakingITGlobal World’s Largest Lesson Sources: International Education and
This course assignment seems especially relevant now that we are living in a pandemic reality and in-person visits with an army of 90 children are unlikely to occur for the next little while. I have identified three virtual connections that I think are relevant to my own practice in a secondary integrated program. Google Lit
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