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Transcript of Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf
Rob Fisher PrincipalEacutecole Riverside SchoolThompson Mb
Principals and Technology infusion Presentation St James SD Feb 22 2012
1Tuesday February 21 2012httpwwwwallwishercomwallttafeb8
to post rsquos they are looking for answers toemail all participants and ask to post to this wall
2Tuesday February 21 2012httpwwwwallwishercomwallttafeb8
while Irsquom talking to you for the next 15 minutes jot down any rsquosthoughts that come to mind hereand maybe I can talk about a couple of them in our discussion or you could as a group discuss them after I leave today
robcfisherwikispacescom
3Tuesday February 21 2012
you can find this presentation here at robcfisherwikispacescom
What can principals do to foster Literacy with ICT (digital learning) in their schools
[or what do I think Irsquom currently doing that might be of some use for you to consider]
4Tuesday February 21 2012
Guiding for todayrsquos presentation
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
5Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
2Tuesday February 21 2012httpwwwwallwishercomwallttafeb8
while Irsquom talking to you for the next 15 minutes jot down any rsquosthoughts that come to mind hereand maybe I can talk about a couple of them in our discussion or you could as a group discuss them after I leave today
robcfisherwikispacescom
3Tuesday February 21 2012
you can find this presentation here at robcfisherwikispacescom
What can principals do to foster Literacy with ICT (digital learning) in their schools
[or what do I think Irsquom currently doing that might be of some use for you to consider]
4Tuesday February 21 2012
Guiding for todayrsquos presentation
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
5Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
robcfisherwikispacescom
3Tuesday February 21 2012
you can find this presentation here at robcfisherwikispacescom
What can principals do to foster Literacy with ICT (digital learning) in their schools
[or what do I think Irsquom currently doing that might be of some use for you to consider]
4Tuesday February 21 2012
Guiding for todayrsquos presentation
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
5Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What can principals do to foster Literacy with ICT (digital learning) in their schools
[or what do I think Irsquom currently doing that might be of some use for you to consider]
4Tuesday February 21 2012
Guiding for todayrsquos presentation
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
5Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
5Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to begin with this poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X6Tuesday February 21 2012
if thats not what we are about at our school what do we talk about
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
7Tuesday February 21 2012
constant conversations about infusion teaching and learning among ourselves and with students
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
8Tuesday February 21 2012
some things were doing at Eacutecole Riverside Schoolwhether its
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
9Tuesday February 21 2012
ipod
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
10Tuesday February 21 2012
ipad
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
11Tuesday February 21 2012
own devices
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
12Tuesday February 21 2012
mobile laptops
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
13Tuesday February 21 2012
netbooks
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
14Tuesday February 21 2012
or in the computer lab
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Inquiry
15Tuesday February 21 2012
our discussions about technology infusion center around inquiry
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Inquiry
Project based learning16Tuesday February 21 2012
and project based learning
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Inquiry
17Tuesday February 21 2012
if we think of the Literacy with ICT continuum
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Inquiry
18Tuesday February 21 2012
and if we think of Inquiry as gather and make sense (consumption)
Gather and make senses (critical thinking)
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Inquiry
19Tuesday February 21 2012
and produce and show understanding (creation)
and produce and show understanding (creative thinking)
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquoThe highest goal in life is to inquire and createrdquo ndash Noam Chomsky
20Tuesday February 21 2012
I found this quote from a recent youtube video ldquoThe purpose of Educationrdquo
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Content Consumers
21Tuesday February 21 2012
we want our students to be consumers of content
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Content Creators
22Tuesday February 21 2012
as well as creators
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Relationships
Technical skills
23Tuesday February 21 2012
So today Irsquod like to talk to you about things I think I am doing to create an environment that allows great teaching to happen
I think its all about the intersectioninterplay ofbetween relationships and technical skills (with a bit more emphasis on the relationship part)
Irsquoll do this by briefly discussing a few projects we are involved in or have done in our school
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
24Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about teddybear travels -- a story of relationships and technical skills
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
25Tuesday February 21 2012
This story starts with Mme Erin (seen here on the left) a fantastic grade 2 teacher in our school In fact probably a master teacher
who would describe herself as ldquonot very good with computersrdquo
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
26Tuesday February 21 2012
and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon explain the concept discussion byte with Lois
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
27Tuesday February 21 2012
our bear sunny and their bear flin flin
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Gmail
gmailcomyounameit
younameitposterouscom
28Tuesday February 21 2012
technical - the posterous modeldarren can explain this to you latergive brief explanation here
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
29Tuesday February 21 2012httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
30Tuesday February 21 2012
httpteddybeartravels2011posterouscom
note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used the posterous in their classrooms
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
31Tuesday February 21 2012
then Erin thought shersquod need an iphone (after using our ipods with the initital project) and did yet another project with the butterflies that she grew every year with her students but this time created a class posterous and put student created videos of the butterfly project online at mmeerinposterouscom
talk about my recent discussion with Erin and about using posterous for electronic portfolios
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
32Tuesday February 21 2012
finding people in my PL network that are willing to do projects with teachers in our schoolbuilding upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggesthelping master teachers see ways to infuse technology with their students
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie with an iphonerelationships Lois me and Erin
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
one infusion project with each and every teacher in our school over
the next 2 years
33Tuesday February 21 2012As part of my professional growth plan as principal with my support
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Kindergarten
34Tuesday February 21 2012
an example of the first project after I mentioned the one infusion project each over the next 2 years
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
35Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
36Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
37Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
38Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
39Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Wolves without Borders
40Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwolveswithoutbordersposterouscomAnd another story about relationships and technical skillexplain the backstorySpirit way committee (community) and Thompson as the wolf capital of the worldconnection with Babbit and Mexico
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
41Tuesday February 21 2012
meeting our partners in Babbit MN
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
42Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
43Tuesday February 21 2012
and our partners in Mexico
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
44Tuesday February 21 2012
collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
45Tuesday February 21 2012Community school partnerships (with Volker - spirit way)
introducing new technologies to Mme Gagne Kelly Engman Tara (wolforg) and Francisco in Mexico
again building upon exisiting relationshipsfostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods ipads and posterous skype class wikis posterousrelationships Volker Tara Micheline Kelly
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
International school twinning initiative project
Voices without Borders
46Tuesday February 21 2012Voiceswithoutborderswikispacescom
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our international school twinning inititative - another story of relationships and technical skills
summary of applying being selected the summer preparation by Kristin and CIDA and then whats happening now
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
47Tuesday February 21 2012
our first connection with the students in Jamaica
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
48Tuesday February 21 2012Jamaica youtube ldquoSnowclothesrdquohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=fxEyJ1WrY4sampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
some of our students creations
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
49Tuesday February 21 2012
httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=X_ubIEvOAPoampcontext=C3f2f47eADOEgsToPDskI5TIqTH5es0Gko8VH4oVDFampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
currently working on how to explain what toboggining is like (they are going to explain cricket to us)
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
50Tuesday February 21 2012wondering how I can get this to happen
grant and proposal writingproject leadership
building upon exisiting relationships ie Val at Mb Education ( I was explaining the wolves without borders project to her and she suggested we consider applying for this)asking Kristin to consider the project during its inception and to spend part of her summer planning in Ottawa and Jamaica
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipodsipads and posterous and how to make movies Editing on imovie desktop and on ipadsgarageband to create music wiki developmentdoing a 12 day inservice with Kristin re imovie editing
relationships Me Val Kristin Kristin and the international project team
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
51Tuesday February 21 2012
yesinmybackyard2011posterouscom
Yes in my backyard is a story about how we received a Mb Citizenship grant of $1000 and created the idea of make a difference mondays in marchduring Sag last year Sophie Sara and I brainstormed about what we could do around an active citizenship project with our grade 5 and 8rsquos and this was the result
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
52Tuesday February 21 2012
students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
53Tuesday February 21 2012
asking for food donations every monday in march 730-830 am then delivering to the homeless shelter
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
54Tuesday February 21 2012
voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiserasking people ldquowhat do you think about what wersquore doing hererdquo
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
55Tuesday February 21 2012Citizenship grant $1000 proposal writingapproached businesses with students to get support (Tim Hortons Robins Donuts and McDonalds)developed a relationship with the director of the homeless shelter
right now doing a Young humanitarian awards nominationkeeping it sustainable ie doing again this yearconsidering a Thompson community foundation grant this year
again fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
in this case technical skills - knowledge of ipods and posterous and how to make a movie and edit editing audio with audacityrelationships Sophie sara grade 5 amp 8 parents homeless shelter participants local business
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Tech buddies grade six amp grade one
56Tuesday February 21 2012
Irsquod like to tell you a story about our tech buddies gr 1 amp 6
explain the backstory of how this came to be with Kristin and Amydistributed leadership-building capacity around you
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
57Tuesday February 21 2012
inside
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
58Tuesday February 21 2012
outside
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
59Tuesday February 21 2012
here is another creator examplehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=3st7bAcdkIgampsafety_mode=trueamppersist_safety_mode=1ampsafe=active
grade 6rsquos helped with script took video and edited under the direction of the grade 1 producers
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
What I think Irsquom doing
Relationships
Technical skills
60Tuesday February 21 2012in this case telling others about our teachers and students great workme helping when they hit a snagie technical sonic pics not working solrsquon needed an update on ipads
I reach out to my PL network to ask for help when we donrsquot know
logistics scheduling the lab as open timeslots so when they need an extended block of time to do a project it is available
fostering risk taking doing things we have never done before
looking for opportunities to assistsuggest
and as always having a personal stance of how can I help make this happen
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Tech talk Tuesdays
61Tuesday February 21 2012
distributed leadership-building capacity around youexplain what this is and how it has developedhttpsdocsgooglecomdocumentd1H7CNTVkQfuFJ0KeKPq3XoM92FHXEkpbfi-NZgeLhnUkeditwe have begun to invite teachers from other schools in the district to participate with usthey have heard what we are doing and are asking to be involved
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
listen to what the nay-sayers are saying
62Tuesday February 21 2012(for change to happen) you need a compelling why - John Orech via Educon
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
63Tuesday February 21 2012
carts I provided each class (lcd projector amp laptop with wireless Internet access)
ldquoyou can bring it in but I need help knowing what to do with itrdquo
not actually nay-sayers but more like ldquoconvince me stillsrdquo
talk about Jeff recently with google earth and how we discovered google streetview built into google earth
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Relationships
Technical skills
64Tuesday February 21 2012
being supportive looking for opportunities to assist when it makes sense to the teacherand when there is an identified compelling why
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
school-wide projects
65Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
66Tuesday February 21 2012
explain Ashleyrsquos 50th anniversary art project
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
67Tuesday February 21 2012
all students and staff in the school have an imagewill be posted on walls soon and somehow shared in the online space
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Grade 2 self portraits - Sarah Balyk
68Tuesday February 21 2012
Sarah animoto of her students progress
animoto httpanimotocomplayVybI3s0pZ3dn0wYPp4fpWw
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
69Tuesday February 21 2012
another schoolwide projectartist in the schools Brenda Gorlick -flash mob grades 1-3b-roll with ipods by our grade 8rsquosmention what happens when you have 180 students 150 parents and 20 high school students trying to be spontaneous
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Relationships
Technical skills
70Tuesday February 21 2012creating a school culture of creativity
collaboration
doing the improbable
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
BYOD
71Tuesday February 21 2012
We also are seeing our students bring their own devicesfor recording homework on ipods iphonesusing their own rather than the schools ipods
festival du voyageur trip 12 the kids using own devices to record the trip
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
Pan-Canadian ePub project One Day in CanadaUn jour partout Canada
72Tuesday February 21 2012
grade 7 collaborative ebook projectdarren can explain this in more detail
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
73Tuesday February 21 2012
garageband in music class
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
smartboard project
74Tuesday February 21 2012
just received4 teachers who indicated in their professional growth plans an interest in using smartboards with their students(gr 5678 french) middle years this year early years next year
provide teachers time to work together to plan and learn (subs)
MTS action plan cohort money for release time is being considered
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquoOf courserdquo - Scott McLeod
X75Tuesday February 21 2012
so I hope you get a feeling that in our school itrsquos not this at all
and here are a couple of other rsquos to consider
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
85Tuesday February 21 2012
86Tuesday February 21 2012
87Tuesday February 21 2012
88Tuesday February 21 2012
89Tuesday February 21 2012
90Tuesday February 21 2012
When are we going to start asking ourselves why we make it so hard to be a great teacher
Chris Lehmann
76Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
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83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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How do we create schools that make it easier for all students and teachers to shine
Chris Lehmann
77Tuesday February 21 2012
httppracticaltheoryorgserendipityindexphparchives1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-MythhtmlldquoBeyond the great teacher mythrdquo post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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Are our limitations self imposed
78Tuesday February 21 2012
tell story of discussion at educonoppression of testing and a grade 3 teacher who was all about arts promotionhow often do we say no when a teacher approaches us with an ideararely if ever
What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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What if I had a relationship with X that let me Y
79Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
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90Tuesday February 21 2012
ldquolearning is a conversationrdquo
questions
80Tuesday February 21 2012
thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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thanks
81Tuesday February 21 2012
Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
84Tuesday February 21 2012
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Credits
ldquoQuestion markrdquo By flickr user Marco Bellucci
ldquoPieces of merdquo By flickr user Helioslashs
ldquoeyeballrdquo By flickr user marco ozark
ldquocreate more than you consumerdquo By flickr user tylerwainright
ldquotechnology userdquo By flickr user mrsdkrebs
ldquoFestival du voyageurrdquo picture by James McDonald
ldquoLetterlandrdquo sonic pic movie created by Parker Long
ldquoTeddybear travelsrdquo pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
ldquoFruits and vegetablesrdquo youtube video by Ireland
ldquoSnowclothesrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Madison Wood Cecelia Michelutti Edit and video by Hanna Lothian
All other images by robcfisher
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan Sophie Ouelett and Ashley Squires
ldquoPan Canadian epub projectrdquo image provided by dkuropatwa
ldquoEgypt tourism brochuresrdquo created using pages and ipads by Braden Paulic and Owen Anderson
ldquoTour of Riverside Schoolrdquo youtube video by Hannah Murdy Hanna Lothian and Cecelia Michelutti Edit by Cecelia Michelutti
Ms Balykrsquos art project animoto courtesy of Sarah Balyk
82Tuesday February 21 2012
Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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Class wikirsquos
83Tuesday February 21 2012Here are some links to Class wikirsquosyou can look at later if you like
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