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Web 20: How-To for Educators. School Leaders and Social Media. The idea of using game based ideas in the learning environment or gamification. Continues to gain momentum with teachers…but more importantly with students. In her COETAIL Final Project. Gives us a great look at gamification in action in a middle school spanish class. You can visit her blog to get the full details along with links to the software she used and a unit planner outlining the process. In his new course Gamification of Education.
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the Digital Bridge: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Going Blog, stage 3. OK, yesterday was the big blog rollout. Sort of.because things fell apart. More on that in a second. The admin and I returned to school last week. Near the top of the itinerary for the start of classes was to get the SDLT blogs up and running; despite some vocalized misgivings from a few faculty members, the wheels were in motion. We had addressed some of our earlier questions during end-of-year meetings and disussions: it was decided that. The blogs will be...
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the Digital Bridge: Flexible Learning Space: the Experimental Classroom
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Flexible Learning Space: the Experimental Classroom. When I first started as Tech Facilitator at HKIS, the High School was doing some renovations which released a room that had been a computer lab. When I saw this space that had rows of electrical outlets on the floor, no fixed cabinetry and great lighting, I figured it could serve as an experimental classroom space, where I could try out different technologies before they were scaled up for the entire school. We looked at dif...
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the Digital Bridge: March 2013
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Monday, March 18, 2013. The problem with Ed Tech. The news that google is discontinuing Google.Reader has got me thinking. My reaction was not unlike that of many other users: anger, frustration, shock, dismay, etc. Some folks made viral videos. That do an excellent job of capturing the emotion, others have even started a petition. To get google to reconsider their decision. something that I signed, but with no misconceptions that it's going to do anything. However, this is the exact opposite of the tech...
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the Digital Bridge: Switching to Feedly; so far, so good.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013. Switching to Feedly; so far, so good. OK, the trigger has been pulled. I emailed my entire HS faculty last week, and I'm emailing my students this week and officially telling them to login to Feedly to switch their Reader content over. If this is done before July 1 (when Reader goes away), then Feedly installs all your Reader subscriptions automatically. Will be have to login to Feedly.com? I've emailed Arthur (the chief designer/co-founder of Feedly; see my previous post. I told ...
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the Digital Bridge: May 2012
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Going Blog, stage 2. Maintaining a reflective blog is a new graduation requirement for our incoming Grade 9 class. Stage 1 was to agree that we wanted our students to use reflective blogs to document and introspect (is that a verb? On their growth relative to our school SLRs. Yesterday, we introduced the idea to our faculty leadership team, who had some legitimate concerns and developing insights. Some of the important things they are bringing to the table include:. Who is ultimate...
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the Digital Bridge: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. OK, this post is both a request for help, and a test of my twitter network as a resource mine. Please post responses as a comment. But the INDIVIDUAL POST comments for some posts were set wrong. These are found when you edit an individual post, and select Options on the right side:. Here's the funny parts that I don't understand. 1) The individual post settings were only wrong for posts that had been labeled (tagged). 2) The kids are not friends, so they had not collaborated.
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the Digital Bridge: December 2015
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Sunday, December 13, 2015. Access to the digital realm in schools has gone through an evolution. Although the stages are not clearly bounded, a simple overview might look like this:. Computer Lab school (the school maintains a lab environment with devices standardized by model and installed software). Laptop Carts (in order to bring technology into the classroom, laptop computers, standardized by model and software, are available for check out). In mathematics, n. Represents a variable, while x. Implies ...
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the Digital Bridge: Followup with Feedly
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Sunday, August 18, 2013. Juat had a great chat with Arthur from Feedly, and shared my 'needs list' with him. I am hopeful that they will design something to fill this unique gap that Reader is leaving abandoned. Here is the gist of what I told him;. I need 'bundles' where I can subscribe to a group of blogs, put them in a single folder, then share that folder. Currently, Reader does it this way:. Which then opens the Reader window and asks you if you want to subscribe to the blog:. I gotta admit, I like ...
