Information Literacy
How can we teach our students to navigate the world of ever growing information in the present and for the future?
What are ways in which social media can be used to leverage access to real time information for our students?
How does the Big6 IL approach help to successfully navigate vast amounts of information?
What are ways teachers can check [...]
For some time now my lurkeresk (probably not a word but…) tendency’s have really bothered me. Until now I have yet to find words for my feeling but just like most things it this crazy connected world so one else has. Jim Lebans audio take on lurking sums up what I have been feeling ever [...]
My life is spread across the world, well at least more than most.
This is a screen shot of what my computer looks like a lot on the weekends. My husband (who is currently living on another continent) and I over the past year have grown accustom to hanging out in Skype video [...]
Some days just have themes attached to them and today a bright and sunny Friday is definitely visual literacy. Two amazing events happened at our school today. An presentation by Scott McCloud and the S2SF student film festival.
Scott’s talk was inspiring in that his message taped into an imaginative innovative side that all of us have [...]
Lately with lots of students gone on various trips, I have found it hard to keep those absent updated on missing work and involved. I’m going out on a limb here and trying something a little risky….using Facebook. So I posted this on my school blog: “Current PHE 3 Lifeguaring candidates please join this group [...]
I spent a larger part of today adding a page on my school blog to outline the full curriculum: standards, essential questions and learning objectives. My goal in this endeavor….to make what is happening at school as transparent as possible. Will it help…only time will tell.
