Free Classroom Blogging Site
I wanted to pass along the following site for those looking for a basic blogging platform to use with their class. I just set up a classroom blog for a teacher ...
District 8 Schools Using SharePoint 2010 to Power Public Sites
Last year District 8 partnered with the Province of New Brunswick to pilot using SharePoint to create public facing school and district websites. Soon, there will be NBED blog to share resources ...
iPod Touch/iPad Apps for the Daily Five (Language Arts)
Recently, my Innovative Learning Fund project wrapped up at Island View School in Kristy Dobson’s Grade 4 classroom. In short, the project focused on the Daily 5 within the English ...
Evaluating Your School Website
June is a great time to start a tradition of evaluating and then updating your school or class website before the summer break. Some teachers and administrators schools never really ...
Saving Audio from PowerPoint Presentation
Click this link to see a short 5 minute video on how to save audio contained in a PowerPoint Presentation and then merge the separate clips into one audio file. ...
PD On-Demand
I’ve added a PD On-Demand section to the Teacher tab on the horizontal menu to my site. It’s slim now but I’m going to add to it up until the ...
District 8 Web Site Relaunched
Last week District 8 launched its new web site. This was joint effort by the Province of New Brunswick and School District 8 in a unique pilot project. Our site ...
Cartoons in Education
Tomorrow I will be at Saint Rose Elementary helping a group of teachers examine some software and sites which allow students to create cartoons. It was their hope that this might be an ...
Barnhill Wellness Fair – Cyber Safety
I was lucky enough to be asked to present at a booth during the Barnhill Middle School Student Wellness Fair. My booth was about Cyber Safety. Being a Technology Mentor I ...
Podcasting
In a recent District PD survey, podcasting was a tool teachers felt they had little knowledge of with regards to its ability to impact learning. This post will attempt to ...