Monthly Archives: February 2014

Ok, well technically…

 

it’s not the end of this week yet (as I pledged I would write before the end of this week in my last post) – but I am cutting it close… Last week at the Face 2 Face session at MaRS, I was definitely feeling under the weather and it turned into a bad, bad cold that I still can’t shake, so I have not done as much work on my Cohort thinking as I would have liked to, however, it doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking, bookmarking on Diigo and reading…  Since Garth said “it’s enough” to focus on one area of best practices for digital citizenship in the classroom, I am sticking with my original idea of looking at copyright and how to teach best practices surrounding the area of image use to elementary school students (and teachers!).

Immediate steps to take:

  1. Figure out when and why teachers/ students in Grades 3-6 are using images they find online
  2. Once I have figured out 1. it will be easy to take a sample project from each grade and search for copyright-free images myself – work through the steps myself and document them so that I have some do-able takeaway ideas for these teachers.
  3. Continue reading on the subject. Do I write my notes in my blog or do I annotate them in Diigo? I feel it might be useful to use Diigo for keeping track of notes for now – since I am sharing these articles with Cohort 21 and the RSGC Grades 3-6 group I have created  so we can share articles etc… internally at school and keep everything in one place (it’s been a little bit of a slow uptake but I think that once I start populating the group’s space with useful articles, they will start to slowly come around and remember to use it to bookmark, as well as go to for reading material).
  4. Finish watching that webinar I mentioned in a previous post (I still haven’t got around to finishing it!). Take notes. Post them here.

And that’s about enough. Baby steps.

And I can’t post without a photo, right? So here’s something delicious for you:

Slice of Paris Brest on eatlivetravelwrite.comYes it’s a Paris-Brest. Click on the image to read about my trials and tribulations making it!