Tech

Thanks for your help: learning more about tech (digital storytelling) in secondary classrooms

I’ve received quite a bit of response from my plea for help in organizing a workshop I’ve been asked to give on integrating technology into secondary classrooms (2 workshops, one in English one in French) – Thank you :) I’ll be using Teaching is a Verb – Enseigner, C’est Agir to share information with the Thanks for your help: learning more about tech (digital storytelling) in secondary classrooms

Calling for help in high school tech workshop development in English and en français

I will be facilitating two workshops, essentially identical though different ;) , on integrating technology into secondary school classrooms. Specifically Language Arts, History, and Science. When it comes to workshops, teachers want practical ideas that they can use in their classrooms so I will be organizing the workshops by practice first and then filling the Calling for help in high school tech workshop development in English and en français

New Media Literacies? Please.

This post began as a comment to The New Media Literacies by Susan Carter Morgan over at scmorgan: teacher, learner, which, by the way, is my addition to the One Comment Project (#OCP) for today. I have a hard time with the term ‘media literacies’. These aren’t literacies. Plain and simple. They are tools and New Media Literacies? Please.

Do you add students as facebook friends?

I do. I know teachers who absolutely refuse to as well. Where do you stand? At the beginning of the year I tried different online techniques to give out information (homework, resources, etc…) and found more and more that students weren’t using the software or the applications. My facebook status updates usually looked like, “don’t Do you add students as facebook friends?

Playing with Xtranormal Animation

A cool way to quickly give your words some life.