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The ConnectED Leaders Weekly: 1st 1/4 highlights
I am celebrating 3 months of publishing the ConnectED Leaders Weekly by sharing a some highlights of each issue. Issue Article Aug. 31, 12 What if you flipped your staff meetings? Sept....
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WRDSB Student Voice
Each year, I look forward to opportunities to interact with our WRDSB students and have conversation about technology, learning and Board plans etc. My recent meeting with our student trustee group...
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WRDSB Futures Forum Program Wins Award
Celebrating an Amazing Journey Five years ago, a small group of WRDSB staff (Mary Lou Mackie, Mark Harper, Kim Keena, Jim Woolley and I ) began meeting with local community business leaders who were...
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OTRK12 Reflections
The month’s On the Rise K12 conference was very worthwhile. I was impressed with the level of learning, sharing and reflecting. Some of my highlights included: Meeting Desire2Learn owner John Baker...
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Technology Enabled Learning at Millen Woods PS
I recently had a chance to spend some time at Millen Woods PS (link) with principal Gwen McCutcheon and her staff. The school had a very welcoming atmosphere. There was a definite energy for learning,...
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Reflections on Ed Camp Hamilton
Saturday May 4th, beautiful sunny weather, no humidity and roughly 150 energized educators at Ancaster Sr. Public School to participate in Ed Camp Hamilton. First, hats off to the organizing committee...
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Blogging with primary students
Today (Wed. May 29th, 2013) I will be interviewing Waterloo Region District School Board teacher Jenni van Rees at 4:30 (EDT). Our discussion topic: blogging with primary students. Catch the live...
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Nurturing Your First Followers
During May, the Waterloo Region District School Board held a Digital Learning Symposium involving central staff, teachers, students and guests from the Ontario Ministry of Education and community....
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CASA13 Presentation Resources
CASA Conference 2013 Presentation Resources Conference Theme: Theme: Pedagogy to Technology: Hardware to Headwear Our presentation : Leveraging the use of Social Media Tools in your School Community —...
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ISTE13 BoF reflections
One of the sessions I attended at the ISTE13 conference was a Birds of a Feather discussion. The original discussion topic was advertised was chromebooks. When the actual event happened, the...
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CASA13: An important remix
As June came to a close, I eagerly anticipated my attendance at the CASA conference as a good learning opportunity and to present with Ed Doadt on the use of social media in the classroom and school...
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SAMR: A day with Dr. Puentedura
The last 2 weeks have been filled with amazing opportunities to spend quality time with passionate Ontario educators: the WRDSB CATC by the Water annual summer PD session, the OSAPAC summer...
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That! is a blog post
This blog post has been in draft mode since I attended the CASA13 conference in July. Every time I sit down to work on it, I think of another angle, write a bit more, and things stay in draft mode....
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Social Media and EQi
This past week I had the privilege of taking an EQi training course with Marcia Hughes of Collaborative Growth. Part way through our first morning of training, we were working our way through a...
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Technology Enabled Learning: a Perspective
Yesterday, my morning started with my with my usual routine – a check on the ‘Twitterverse’. There is always something interesting going on there, and this day was no different. I took note of a...
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The ConnectED School Leader
As part of our Board capacity building program, we offered 2 full day sessions for our school administrators and instructional leaders with George Couros. George’s session aligned perfectly with our...
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Connecting Students with Google Hangouts
After 2 days of being immersed in conversation about technology enabled learning, focusing on using technology to get to deeper learning, and engage the relationship aspect of the possibilities with...
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ECOO13: Building Capacity Panel Discussion
Ed Doadt and I are looking forward to hosting our ECOO 2013 Conference panel discussion on the topic of Building Capacity. We have lined up a wonderful panel of Ontario educational leaders to dig...
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ECOO13: Call to Action
It is hard to believe ECOO13 is done. Following the event, a number of people asked if I could post my closing remarks. Wanting to be timely, here they are. There is no doubt that ECOO 13 has been...
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21C Round Table Panel 20131029
I had the privilege of participating on the Ministry of Education 21C Round Table Discussion panel this week along with Dany Dias, Grade 7 and 8 teacher at Le Sommet High School in Hawkesbury; Mark...
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