Expanding my PLN is actually a concern of mine. I started full time teaching in August of 2018. Before this, I was in industry working in the fields I am teaching. I want to make sure I keep expanding my knowledge base to better serve my students. I think that extending (or expanding) my PLN… Read more »
All Activity Responses
Clean Air Sudbury (Response)
The collaborative project was to come up with a design and innovation contest on constructing a ‘living wall’ . The group who came up with this idea are apart of a community partnership called ‘Clean Air Sudbury’. Clean Air Sudbury is a non-profit community group focused on air quality issues in Greater Sudbury. This group is… Read more »
OER! (Response)
I have chosen those specific resources because they actually have neat videos attached to some of the lessons. Videos are another platform I would like to incorporate into all of my classes! So far, this has been my favorite Ontario extend activity….. 🙂
https://padlet.com/pamela_koski/71roxgbvwudo (Response)
Mine can be found here: https://padlet.com/pamela_koski/71roxgbvwudo
Free education is where its at! (Response)
These are amazing sites with great, ‘open’, information about a ton of topics!!! This has been extremely helpful 🙂
Image (Response)
Curator (Response)
Content Curation is defined in Wikipedia as ‘the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators. Curation services can be used by businesses as well as end users.’ I believe teachers are one of the most important curators, as it… Read more »
Tools (Response)
The tool I decided to focus on was youtube. I have decided to use youtube videos on top of my lessons as a way to teach the students how to change brushes in the air monitoring equipment motors. I believe that hearing someone else while seeing it multiple times will help guide the students in… Read more »
Technology creation (Response)
A lot of the students come into the program with different ideals on what they should be taught. They never know that simple technology sometimes is the best to use. We often use excel to look at and analyze our data. It is accessible to most and the most common tool used to compare data… Read more »
Learner Challenge (Response)
I have been putting students in groups. I give each group a specific scenario. They have to come up with the best way to monitor the specific air quality scenario. They then teach the rest of the class the air monitoring program they have designed using the technology appropriate for that scenario. Interesting to see… Read more »