What happens when a Google Certified Teacher takes a job behind the Great Fire Wall? I thought the answer to this would become less ambiguous after a few months in China, but surprisingly the answer's still not so clear. What is definitive is that the blogs I've been using for my various classes for more than a few years are now in a Han Solo-cryogenic state of hibernation.

The evidence of tech integration in my previous classes spoke for itself through my students' sharing of work, ideas, and products. Now, so much of the publishing stage of their work is on internal servers, that I feel the need to document this somewhere. So if in effort to share some of the potentially cool, and not so cool, things going on in my classes, I'll be using this blog (recycled grade 12 site) as a platform of productivity, a professional page, a pyt of a pln, and all sorts of sordid alliteration.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Have to sum up an author's work in 25 words.

Tagxedo and a potentially smart background shape... voilà Angela Carter Word Cloud!
 


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Thursday, May 15, 2014

1:1 - Do our schools physically support 1:1 programmes?

 

Yes, I spelt (that's right I spelled spelled as spelt) program as programme - Anyways, I've recently visited some not-so-shabby international schools, and one of the things I was eyeballing, beyond the commissioned statues and zen gardens, was: 

How conducive are the learning spaces to 1:1 programs? 

Obviously, this something I've been working on with my current classroom. Yes, most our schools have the charging stations, etc. But.. 

- How may outlets available in your classroom and do students have to reconfigure their seating in order to charge their computer? It's easy to mandate, "Make sure your computer is charged when you arrive to class", but if we all say this... 

*** AUDIO!!! This kills me. Visuacy, as the Aussies call it, multimedia, Ted talks, so being able to hear Ted would seem to be of importance... 

- How accessible are is your audio input? 
- Does it force you to leave your laptop in a very confined are of the classroom? - Can students easily access the audio input? 
- Do you have to do the stupid untangling of ow wires and relocation of speakers for student presentations? 
- Do you have surround sound? 
- Do you find that certain videos when streamed are just not loud enough? 
- Do you have a wireless projector? 
- If not, do you have to leave your laptop in a very confined are of the classroom? 
- Do students have ready access to project? 
- Laptops are a misnomer- do students have space to work with the computer, ergonomically, in classrooms and common spaces? 
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Everyday I'm hustlin... hustlin.. hustlin...

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Screencasting - Lord of the Flies Mask & Monologue - Characterization and Rationale

Nice, multi-component summative dealing with characterization. 
- Analyze for characterization 
- Create a mask that is representative of a principal character 
- Write a rationale justifying artistic and symbolic elements and where in the narrative these characteristics and concepts are derived 
- Write a sixty-second monologue from your character's perspective, 1st person POV 

Pretty cool final products and some of the masks, both three-dimensional and digital were very well done. 


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