Category Archives: Online in Elementary/Secondary Schools
Virtual Read Alouds – #WRAD & “Read With Me”
They were virtual read-alouds done over the internet using my Elluminate vroom Continue reading
Virtual Literacy Initiative – Connections Wanted
Now I want to take the idea forward, in a more formal way. I’m curious about the logistics necessary to provide an online intervention solution in a typical classroom as well as breadth of possibilities for assisting students. Continue reading
Virtual Literacy Intervention
Knowing that school reform should be based on strong research, I am interested in pursuing this idea further. Contact me if you would like to participate in a study of a virtual literacy support programme in your school or you have information from your own experiences in the fray. 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
K-12 Online Conference 2008 – Call for Proposals
It’s that time of year again, the K-12 Online Conference is starting to ramp up. Last year I was involved on the Help Desk and I enjoyed it so much I am hoping to help again this year. I’m also … Continue reading
K12 Online – Proof it’s a Connected World Out There
The K12 Online Conference is about to kick off it’s ‘official’ schedule after a week of pre-conference activities which started with David Warlick’s Pre-Conference Keynote and I guess you could say the pre-conference week is ending, aptly, with the Virtual … Continue reading
WebHuddle + Skype = Online Hands-On Workshop
On Saturday February 3rd, I presented a workshop for In.tech.gration 2007: Teach & Technology in the 21st Century, offered out of Nipissing University. On the website In.tech.gration 2007 is described as: “a technology in education conference for students enrolled in … Continue reading
Google Grabbed Writely!
I just finished doing a presentation on how to use Writely for collaborative school work and the next thing I know Arvind over at 21 Apples is telling me that Writely has been purchased by Google…not a bad find, all … Continue reading
High School Teachers go to Blogging School
Last week I did a short two hour session on “An Educator’s Guide To Blogging” – you can download the hand-out or visit the resource slideshow . The 16 participants were a mix of teachers from english, science and history … Continue reading