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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
firstnationsandmetiseducation » Grade 2 cultural camping trip
firstnationsandmetiseducation » Grade 2 cultural camping trip
This address will take my followers to my firstnationsandmetiseducation wiki that I created as my final project. I have four pages on Aboriginal education which I hope to continue improving. This is not the finished product.
This address will take my followers to my firstnationsandmetiseducation wiki that I created as my final project. I have four pages on Aboriginal education which I hope to continue improving. This is not the finished product.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
On going professional development
I have been looking through the online professional development sites. There are two sites that I keep returning to and one of the reasons I find them sttractive is they are well organized and the directions to the lessons are easy to follow. I really like the Savvy Cyber Teacher because it incorporates alot of material on elementary students. I often have difficulty locating material that my students can use but this sit is incredible and it has content in all subject matters. Many time our teachers attend conventions and are ususally dissappointed because the PD is usually geared to only one level but this site covers all grade areas. I also know that I just had two teachers asking me , if you can believe it for help in technology and I am going to use 23 Things to help them along.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Professional Development Learning
There is a great amount of professional development resources that are available. It would be easy to spend all of your time surfing the internet and expanding your own personal knowledge. I selected 23 Things as my professional development resource for many reasons. I have learned many of the tools that are available on 23 Things but there are still some that I would like to practice and improve. I was sharing this site with a first year teacher and she was facinated with the resources that are available and it was easy to share my personal knowledge as I shared some of my personal creations using web 2.0. During our last staff meeting I also volunteered to assist a teacher who will be teaching some computer and internet skills for teachers so that they can begin utilizing the resources. Arlene phoned from Beauval and asked if I would participate in her professional development day and I agreed to go there for a day to support her initiatives.
This was something I would have never considered before taking this class but I have gained a sense of empowerment since I learned how to incorporate technology in our classrooms and our schools. One of the other reasons that I would like to improve my skills and expand my learning is to help others who are struggling with the implementation of technology.
It is amazing because as an administrator who does teacher supervision, I have started asking teachers what kinds of skills they are teaching our students. I feel confident in discussing what we are lacking in technology and how we can improve. I am also beginning to recognize what tools we are lacking so that we can begin to purchase the tools such as overheads projectors and screens for our computer rooms to make teaching technology possible.
This was something I would have never considered before taking this class but I have gained a sense of empowerment since I learned how to incorporate technology in our classrooms and our schools. One of the other reasons that I would like to improve my skills and expand my learning is to help others who are struggling with the implementation of technology.
It is amazing because as an administrator who does teacher supervision, I have started asking teachers what kinds of skills they are teaching our students. I feel confident in discussing what we are lacking in technology and how we can improve. I am also beginning to recognize what tools we are lacking so that we can begin to purchase the tools such as overheads projectors and screens for our computer rooms to make teaching technology possible.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
PD Selections
Somebody help. How do I transfer my postings from google docs to my blog? ASAP
I went through some of the PD sites and discovered that it it easy to dig a sandtrap and get stuck or totally messed up. Some of the stuff I posted on my google docs which I wanted to share onto my blog talked about one of the PD sites I was on and discovered that some pornography surfaced which was more than I really ever wanted to learn. I was surfing on the education podcast and saw some inappropriate language which I clicked because I was very sure that it would not have any inappropriate material but sure enough. It was more than I bargained for but it reinforced how important our role is as educators to continually teach our students about internet safety.
I went through some of the PD sites and discovered that it it easy to dig a sandtrap and get stuck or totally messed up. Some of the stuff I posted on my google docs which I wanted to share onto my blog talked about one of the PD sites I was on and discovered that some pornography surfaced which was more than I really ever wanted to learn. I was surfing on the education podcast and saw some inappropriate language which I clicked because I was very sure that it would not have any inappropriate material but sure enough. It was more than I bargained for but it reinforced how important our role is as educators to continually teach our students about internet safety.
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