TED Ed Clubs
TED has recently introduced TED Ed clubs. It requires that interested facilitators submit an application. If you’re interested in implementing TED like presentations in your classroom, you can sign up… Read more »
Category: Education
Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom
Digital Storytelling Digital Storytelling is the creation of stories using electronic devices. These stories generally include multimedia such as narration, sound, video and images. Please respect copyright and fair… Read more »
Acts of Kindness and Caring
We have anti-bullying policies in schools and we remind students not to bully. It’s important that we also fight against meanness and cruelty. I think that it’s worthwhile to be… Read more »
Actions that Fight Bullying
The term bullying gets thrown around a lot by children and youth. If a peer doesn’t play with you on the playground, that’s not necessarily bullying. If that person is… Read more »
Threes Tuesday
1. http://storybird.com What is it? Collaborative story-telling website Use it: create a story Integration: Any subject but especially language arts Purpose: Students can work with each other to create a story. If the focus… Read more »
App Spotlight
The list of currently free apps is updated each week. Highlights this week include Purple Frog to teach social skills including caring, DoReMi 1-2-3: Music for kids which focuses on music, Mathzilla for elementary Maths. Cookie Next Door which encourages creativity… Read more »
Keeping Safe, Wirelessly
Children are brought into the world of technology even before birth, with ultrasounds posted on Facebook, and baby names crowdsourced online. Is it no doubt then, that the wireless spans… Read more »
Who Are You?
I recently read an article on the CTV website about a study that shows strong correlations between liking something on Facebook and a myriad of personal demographic information including racial… Read more »
My Totally Real Online World
What’s your real life? I was recently speaking with my grade 6 students about online versus “real life” bullying and had difficulty picking the “right” words to talk about the… Read more »
Let Children Scratch
Scratch was created at MIT. Mitch Resnick explains that Scratch is a tool that can help children navigate the creative thinking spiral, which is made up of imagine, create, play,… Read more »