Continued from the middle of the end of the beginning. I’ve blathered on for long enough, and I did it so you know that this went wrong a lot before it went okay. Even now, check the punctuation in my video’s text. It is laughable. Will I be an instructional coach at Rosseau Lake College? […]
Continued from the beginning of the end of the beginning. I was stuck with a screenshot of what I had created in Garage Band, and this did not capture the essence of the song I had written nor what my Cohort 21 action plan has thus far entailed. I thought about linking directly to the […]
Microsoft PowerPoint was first released in 1987 (Wikipedia, 2019a). The original slide deck software, PowerPoint revolutionized presentations everywhere, freeing us from the trials and tribulations of drawing, or even worse, photocopying, onto transparencies. As a testament to their significance in communication, the form and features of myriad slide deck programs remain similar to this day. […]
Have you ever gone away for the weekend and realized you owed some feedback to a student while you were gone? I am talking about the type of feedback that has to happen before Monday and not by 11 pm on Sunday night either. This just happened to me and thankfully the student submitted his […]
I love taking photos. As a teen I longed for my own camera, yet I had no money. I have none of my own photos from my time in high school. Once in university I bought a small point-and-shoot film camera. I would develop a roll of 24 photos to maybe get two or three […]
It’s been a while since I last posted, and that is because there has been a lot going on! Schools get so busy in the final two weeks before the winter holidays, don’t they? If you haven’t yet done so, please do some square breathing: breathe in deeply for a two count, hold it for […]
I have had some fun this week using an Apple program called Preview. Aptly named, this is the program that runs if you double click on a file to look at it. There is a little blue pen tip icon under the file title that is available with most file types. When you hover over […]
I am leading a photography club during the winter trimester at Rosseau Lake College. The premise is simple: I issue a challenge each week and each student attempts to meet the challenge, either during one of our times together or at some other moment during the week. It’s pretty loose, and the point is to […]
I woke up this morning thinking about Conference of Independent Schools schools. Aside from knowing that CIS exists and that Cohort 21 is for CIS Ontario educators I felt rather ignorant overall, so I made coffee and sat down to do some data mining. We have been given a Cohort 21 WordPress account for blogging, […]
Google Apps for Education, or #GAFE as they are known on Twitter, include very powerful tools to help educators help themselves get faster at algorithmic tasks. This frees us up to spend more time focusing on heuristic tasks, the ones that require adaptive, responsive decision making in the face of ever changing conditions. At least […]