Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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Rob Fisher, Principal École Riverside School Thompson, Mb. Principals and Technology infusion Presentation @ St. James SD Feb 22, 2012 1 Tuesday, February 21, 2012 http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/ttafeb8 to post ?’s they are looking for answers to email all participants and ask to post to this wall

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presentation to principals regarding what I think I do as principal to assist literacy with ICT infusion in our school

Transcript of Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

Page 1: 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

Page 2: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 3: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 4: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 5: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 6: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 7: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 8: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 9: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 10: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 11: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 12: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 13: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 14: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 15: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 16: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 17: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 18: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 19: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 20: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 21: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 22: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 23: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 24: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 25: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 26: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 27: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 28: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 29: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 30: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 31: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 32: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 33: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 34: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 35: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 36: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 37: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 38: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 39: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 40: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 41: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 42: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 43: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 44: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 45: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 46: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 47: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 48: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 49: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 50: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 51: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 52: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 53: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 54: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 55: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 56: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 57: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 58: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 59: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 60: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 61: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 62: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 63: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 64: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 65: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 66: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 67: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 68: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 69: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 70: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 71: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 72: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 73: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 74: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

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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

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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

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90Tuesday February 21 2012

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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

84Tuesday February 21 2012

85Tuesday February 21 2012

86Tuesday February 21 2012

87Tuesday February 21 2012

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90Tuesday February 21 2012

Page 78: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

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89Tuesday February 21 2012

90Tuesday February 21 2012

Page 79: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 80: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 81: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

Page 82: Technology infusion @ our school feb 22:12 v2 lr.pdf

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

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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

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85Tuesday February 21 2012

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86Tuesday February 21 2012

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89Tuesday February 21 2012

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87Tuesday February 21 2012

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90Tuesday February 21 2012