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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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I’m Writing This On An iPad
When I first read about the iPad I was impressed, but I couldn’t see it being used efficiently in the classroom. Now I’ve been playing with it for about an hour and all I can say is, wow! I have been...
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“Searching Online Is A Waste of Time”– Really?!?!?!
Once upon a time my partner, Susana , was sitting in a room full of teachers when she overheard something that got her blood flowing. Before I go on, I guess I should tell you some background. Susana...
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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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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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