Savanna's PD Day

I love going to Savanna.  The teachers fabulous, the conversations challenging and they always feed me.  Unfortunately I don't get out there nearly as often as I would like.  At 143km from Grande Prairie, Savanna is number two on the list of our furthest away schools in Peace Wapiti School Division.

Mike and  Tina working hard!

After polling the group.....

and getting some rather inconclusive results, I tried to plan a day that allowed for a lot of time to explore, use and plan around the them of "Create, Collaborate and Connect".  

Take a look at all of their creations...here are a few:

Stacy's PhotoPeach Story
 
USA Foreign, Economic, Political Policy Timeline on PhotoPeach

Tina's QR Code (she is going to use this to figure out how many students have the tech to use them)

Stacey's Newspaper

Thanks for a great day!

ASBOA: Better Together

When the Association of School Business Officials of Alberta (ASBOA) was looking for presenters for their annual conference and approached myself and Sandy McDonald, from GPPSD, to do a session on Social Media it was an easy sell. 

Sandy getting things started!

Better Together: Connecting School Business Officials
The benefits of learning how to navigate social media, and to take advantage of social networking, are many. Sharing and learning with others inside and outside of your organization is easier than you might think. Come join Jen and Sandy and learn about new tools of the trade to help widen your network and make new connections to support your personal and professional growth!

While the topic, social media, was familiar to both of us, the audience and the location were new.   Instead of teachers and administrators the room was full of financial officers, executive assistants and a few occupational health and safety folks.  We went through the whys and how-tos, you can see all our resources here, but the conversations went a little more in depth around safety and privacy.  All in all it was a great day and a fabulous opportunity to connect with another group in Alberta Education.

Just out the backdoor!

Jasper was also fabulous and gave me the opportunity to photograph a few of the beautiful sites and critters...

The view

Mountain goats on the way back to GP!

Connected: PWSD Trustee's

A presentation at the Peace Wapiti School Board meeting today on using social media to connect and build relationships.  While the conversation was mainly twitter, we did touch on blogging, Facebook, geotagging photos and much more!

Connected

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Make sure to give a follow our PWSD Trustee and Central Office Tweeps!

Stacey Pelland @StaceyPelland
Wendy Kelm @wendykelm
Richard Lappenbush @RLappenbush
Dana McIntosh @DanaMcIntosh
Kim Moodle @KimMoodie1
Sharilyn Anderson @pwsdsanderson
Christine Schlief @Christinepwsd


Sheldon Rowe @SheldonRowe
Brian Shields @JBrianShields
JoAnn Vanstone @JoAnnVan

Technology Mediated Student Engagement

Joan Coy, Farouq Hassanali


Using a blend of technology-rich on-line learning resources with traditional classroom teaching environments, we can improve the school experience and engage students in self directed learning. Teachers have created a Moodle site that houses our courses and gives students access to high quality on-line courses (24/7), in addition to classroom instruction. The Moodle site is being used to facilitate inquiry learning and differentiation (e.g., self-checks, self reflections, and project collaboration). An interactive session to share strategies for student engagement. Come hear what students and teachers have to say and see how the classroom has changed!

technology mediated student engagement

All Presentation Handouts

Collaboration Moodle Div 4 Math

 

Surviving with Students in a Digital World

I have two parent council presentations this week and I am using the following presentation and videos to guide the discussion.

Surviving with Students in a Digital World

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IT/ET Board Meeting Presentation

Some of the files, slideshows, links and videos that we hope to use during the 40 minute presentation.


IT Darcy's handout

PWSD IT/ET Dec Board Meeting

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Peace Wapiti School Division Facebook Page


PWSD Educational Technology on PhotoPeach

Online Content to Support Student Learning

Joan Coy & myself did a short presentation to the Joint Parent Coucil meeting about online supports for student learning.  We outlined a couple of key places students could go to get some help.

During the presentation I used this Jog the Web and handout, please feel free to download and change them as you see fit.

1) E-community, students can find complete courses or use the content that was put up for them by their teachers.  Your may need your PWSD username and password to get into some of the courses.

2) Learn Alberta, you can search by keyword and subject or click on T4T to get complete courses.  You will need PWSD's password to get into some of the material.

3) YouTube and Teacher Tube are great resources.  Use the search engine and key terms to narrow down what you are looking for.

Beaverlodge Staff Meetings

Thanks for Beaverlodge Elementary School and Beaverlodge High School for inviting me to talk about technology integration at their staff meeting.

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