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Teaching Design Through Presentations
As an ICT teacher, I feel I am responsible for teaching the middle school students a lot of what they need to know about presentations. When it comes to presentations, I find that their technology...
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The Relationship Between Piracy and Sales
I just started a unit with my G5 classes on Copyright and Creative Commons. We always have vigorous discussion on the issue and it’s interesting to hear my students point of view. As there are a lot of...
View ArticleOriginal Compositions By The ‘Remix Generation’
In most situations in life, I think it’s always important to know and understand the rules before you go ahead and break them. This is especially important in music. Before you can make that cutting...
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Are Standards Needed If Technology Is Used As A Tool?
In 1998 the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) released National Education Technology (NET) standards “for the purpose of leveraging the use of technology in K-12 education to...
View ArticleFinding A Problem and Solving It
After watching the TEDx talk below by Dan Meyer, I was inspired to try something like it in my class. But I didn’t know what problem we could work on. I wanted the problem to be meaningful to the...
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3 Essential Tools I Use To Monitor And Maintain My Computer
Owning a Mac, I find I have to do very little maintenance to my machine. It runs well majority of the time and only slows down when I have had it on for weeks or have 15 applications opened at once....
View ArticleTech Integration VS Tech Classes
Currently I teach at a school where we have dedicated technology lessons for all students from kindergarten through to Grade 7. Each class gets 40 minutes a week in a lab with a technology teacher,...
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Open, Online Portfolios, One Year On
At the start of the school year, I set myself the large goal of implementing open, online portfolios in the form of blogs for all of my students from Grade Three to Grade Seven. I started them off with...
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A Laptop Cart At A 10th Of The Price
This school year, my school had two laptop carts. One in the elementary school and one in the middle/high school. The computers are house in a big, grey metal cart. When it arrived, the cart had no...
View ArticleTeachers Portfolios – What Are The Options?
It seems that more and more teachers are becoming comfortable with technology and want to jump in feet first. This is great, because they are becoming more in control of their digital footprint. The...
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