Peter Skillen and I had the pleasure of attending a working group session at the YMCA of Greater Toronto led by Candy Chow (YPALS Coordinator – YMCA of Greater Toronto) and Nina Arcon (YPALS Specialist at YMCA of Greater Toronto). This group of about 12 young people are about to launch a blog that will…
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Art Miles and Google Lit Trips
One of my favourite things to do with students is connect them globally with others around the world, and I’ve written about that here in earlier posts. I’m starting to daydream about getting back to a school one day soon, and one of the things I’ve missed is participating in, not just suggesting, some of…
Read MoreOTRK12 and Google Summit Learning
My friends Donna Fry and Mark Carbone, co-creators of the #ossemooc have put out a call for us to share our learning during this month of April and, as always, it takes me a little while to get my posts onto the blog! Luckily for me, I had two great experiences last week, one at…
Read MoreTrusting in Student Awesomeness
For quite some time now I’ve been questioning our desire to have students who are critical thinkers. Do we really want that? What happens when these students that we’ve empowered to have wonderfully evaluative thinking skills decide that they need to make improvements to their learning environment? Will you stand beside them and support them? …
Read MoreCopyright Matters – Canada!
Many of you will have already seen this, but you can now download the newly updated version of Copyright Matters. Students and teachers now more freedom with images, music and other web-based works so it’s good news! Check out page 12 which I found most relevant to my work in schools:
Read MoreDiving Deeply: Networks or Communities
Originally Posted by Brenda Sherry on Apr 13, 2012 in Voices from the Learning Revolution, PLP Network I’ve begun teaching an Additional Qualifications course for inservice teachers, about the integration of technology into their classroom practice. I’ve written about this new learning journey before, and I began revising and rethinking the course as soon as…
Read MoreProfessional Learning, Teacher Librarians, and the 21st Century!
This past week was a wonderful celebration of the work of over half (about 31) of our elementary teacher librarians who gathered to share the projects they’ve been working on since the fall. I was lucky to be able to work with Michelle Campbell and Bill MacKenzie , who led Year One of this great…
Read MoreTeaching and Learning in the 21st Century Conference
Whew! I’ve returned from a whirlwind of 3 days of learning at OTF’s latest conference: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century and as usual, my brain is full of new learning, not only from the keynote presenters, Will Richardson and Garfield Gini-Newman, but from my own network. I’m a little late getting to this…
Read MoreReflections on RCAC Symposium 2010
Sometimes it just seems to take me a while to put my reflections into writing but having attending another great RCAC Symposium this year, I thought, “Better late than never!” Thanks so much to Doug Peterson and Doug Sadler for heading up such a great organizational team that makes this event so successful. I read…
Read MoreTalking Blogs Are Here
You’ll probably notice a Listen Now button on my blog, and a widget in the sidebar that allows you to subscribe to my podcast. It works in blogger..but I’ll have to find out how to get it on this new WordPress blog. I’ve been getting ready to present at the AT4ALL Conference in Milton next…
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