Category Archives: Learning Interactives
Virtual Read Alouds – #WRAD & “Read With Me”
They were virtual read-alouds done over the internet using my Elluminate vroom Continue reading
Web Guest to Nipissing’s Infusion Conference
On January 31st, 2009, I had the great opportunity of presenting at Nipissing University’s Pre-Service Teachers’ Infusion Conference. That’s really not newsworthy…except, I was in Sri Lanka and the conference was happening in North Bay, Ontario! Then, to make it … Continue reading
WiiMote Whiteboard – A SmartBoard Alternative
While I was up at Nipissing University recently, I was pleased to find out that although the Pre-Service Teacher Program has an active SmartBoard program, they are also investing an inexpensive alternative, the WiiMote Whiteboard. I interviewed Ken Waller, the … Continue reading
Can We Be More Discriminating in our PowerPoint Disdain?
Flip through about 10 slides from each of the following presentations: Exhibit #1: | View | Upload your own Exhibit #2: | View | Upload your own And Exhibit #3: | View | Upload your own Which one of the … Continue reading
Podcasting vs. plain ‘Audio in the Classroom’
Recently, on a mailing list to which I subscribe, a technology instructor wondered if it was necessary to teach a group of ‘basic-skilled’ teachers the added technique of making an audio ‘subscribe-able’ (and therefore a podcast). Here was my response: … Continue reading
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Home Grown Real-Time Presentation Software
On the “Pilot Course for E-Learning Policies†there were two school visits – one to the University of Colombo (http://www.cmb.ac.lk/)and the other to the University of Moratuwa (http://www.mrt.ac.lk/). Both of these schools showed a variety of elearning projects they are … Continue reading
Wiki-fying Pre-Service Teaching – A Lesson Idea Exchange
Imagine it… apparently there are 5000 pre-service teachers training in Ontario’s universities right now… They are all out on placements this term for a varying amount of time and ALL are trying to come up with STELLAR lessons to make … Continue reading
Screencasts as Learning Tools – An S5 Slide Show
I’ve uploaded the first installment of four from my Blogs, Podcasts, Wiki’s & Screencasts presentation at Nipissing University in January. It’s the first part of the talk which highlighted SCREENCASTS in the classroom. This is a slideshow using the S5 … Continue reading
Math Mini-Clips – Screencasts as a Math Helper
I am working on a resource from the slideshow I presented recently for the ITEACH department at Nipissing University. I wrote up the following comment about one of the examples I showed for math screencasts and thought it best to … Continue reading
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Low Tech Clickers in the Classroom
Luckily my husband is as passionate about education technology and effective learning in the classroom as I am so we have numerous animated discussions throughout our day. A little while ago he told me about a teacher at his college … Continue reading
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