I felt this tingle while shoveling snow…
So we had a snow day Monday. I won’t go in to the gloriousness that a snow day is here in Canada. Suffice it to say that they’re as close to heaven as you can get without dying. It came…
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There’s no I in TEAM (there’s an _A, _M and _R though!)
When we first introduced the OneNote Binders, amongst the immediate requests was for group collaboration spaces. For the first year, we had the teachers request them through our IT request system and manually created them and assigned the permissions. But,…
Facebook question on “tablets”
A friend asked the following on Facebook so I thought I’d provide my response to promote discussion more generally. Who all is in a one-to-one tablet school? How’s that going? Use them daily? Weekly? Monthly? Blue-moonly? Curious if the tablets…
Lync in a Snowstorm: Video-conferencing the Music Classroom
Okay, so it’s not Buffalo, but one of our teachers lives out in the country and due to the recent snowstorm was unable to come to school. Normally, that isn’t a great emergency as we do our own coverages for…
“You don’t want to use OneNote; it’s too hard…”
So I was sitting in the Faculty Lounge yesterday (as I am as much as I can… see It’s too far…) and I was chatting with a Social Studies teacher. She was asking about the Microsoft conference I had attended…
Feedback to Students in OneNote : A summary
One of our participants here at the Park City Mathematics Institute asked me how we did student feedback at our school; I wrote him an email but thought I’d illustrate it a bit more here: So, we have a little…
10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Microsoft OneDrive
I’ve been busy with the wrap-up of the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) so this has had to wait. But I caught the article “10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs” and felt a parallel…
External Reviews – Using two Notebooks, Link to Page and Send to OneNote
We’re just about finished here at the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) and the afternoon professional development workshop creation process has only a few days left. The last big stage was actually this weekend when each group’s work was sent…
Excel Surveys
One of the activities in Reflecting on Practice today involved developing question stems that would promote math talk. We wanted a quick and easy way of collecting the sample question stems each participant had created — a survey lets us…
A one-off OneNote Notebook for a specific PD session
Each day as part of the 3-week Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), we have a 75 minute session called “Reflecting on Practice”. We take the 60-or-so participants and break out into three smaller rooms of about 20 each, further subdividing…