Collaborating, without having to work
It often takes folks a bit to get used to OneNote because there are no “files” — there are only pages, like a Binder, and everything is placed on a page. So, when students do their work and present it…
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What is your classroom like?
So my new year’s resolution is to write one blog post a week.I thought I would start off by answering a question I was asked during #PubPD in October. Now, #PubPD is a fun evening where teachers gather together in…
Using Delve to Board up your School
So I mentioned that one of the apps inside of Office365, Delve, is my best friend in a previous post – mostly because it’s an intelligent agent that helps me prioritize (and find) things I should be working on. If you…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
How do you direct someone to a specific spot in your OneNote
OneNote, as well as I can gauge from the number of tweets I see tagged with it, has been undergoing a marked increase in user base. So, I’ve been trying to mirror what folks do with GoogleDocs and show how…
On the internet, personne ne sait que tu es un chien!
I have the incredible good fortune to watch a French teacher work over the next month. She’s taken on the responsibility for a Grade 10 French summer course for students. The challenge is that she is teaching it online to…
Documenting our Action Research
Our school has our teachers choose a working group that meets every third week of the school year; they choose a topic to look at and then work through a discussion, research and perhaps reach a project. I had the…