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.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Step Into Our Classroom Live - Every lesson recorded for the year!


This year I have finally formalized my live-streaming of my lessons. With the summer purchase of a Logitech C920 wide-angle webcam permanently fixed in the back of the room and our Samson C01U hanging from the ceiling, we are good to go. Step Into Our Classroom Live is an separate Youtube channel from our Step Into Our Classroom. I felt as though I wanted to keep the daily recordings separate from the student resources and work.
I'm not sure how many students have gone back and actually watched a lesson after being absent... BUT, I have personally been able to get a lot out the reflective nature of viewing my lessons. It is great PD. Additionally, having a virtual eye watching adds some strange sense of always being in a teacher evaluation scenario - of which, I kind of enjoy. 

Using a Youtube channel and the Google Hangouts function within allows for the lessons to be both streamed live and automatically recorded and published via Youtube- easy and awesome!

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

My Alarm Clock App - 7 Minute Warning

My Alarm Clock
By Apalon Apps

Love this app! I've been trying to sort out a proper app/alarm clock for some time. 

Like most of us, I appreciate some "winding" down of the lesson- reflect on/recap what we have done and to review homework etc. 

 This app not only allows me to set multiple alarms (for all my class periods, and all the alternative periods when we have community events - which is quite a lot), BUT I get to use my own audio for the alarm itself. 

 So, as long as it can be put in a playlist in iTunes, it works. So, I get to create my own audio tracks!

 Creepy attention getting guy... 7 minute warning



 Roger W (one of our Year II students) Death Metal...
7 minute warning
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

21st Century Learning Teachmeet - May, Hong Kong

Although it makes for a very rough day, I wasn't about to miss out on the opportunity of presenting at the May 21st Century Learning Teachmeet in Hong Kong. My micro-presentation went over well and as always, one gets to "talk about school stuff" with a lot of very smart and proactive educators. 
The Slides version of my presentation-
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