This blog post features a look at a collaborative coding project at Moffat Creek Public School in Cambridge Ontario. Grade six teacher Vicky McKenna (@VickyMcKenna1 ) collaborated with kindergarten teacher Mark Woodfield (@kindycop) to have her students create a custom program for their assigned kindergarten buddy.
The video includes interviews with Vicki, Mark, digital literacy support teacher Jeff Brown (@jeff_dbrown), student feedback as well as some classroom action.
~Mark
In this post, I am pleased to share the work of Mme Rosemary Berndt and her grade nine French classes. This year they pushed their approach to “un musée virtuel” to a new multi media and collaborative approach in making their learning visible. It was a pleasure to work with Mme Berndt and her students in providing support to the project.
This audio clip by Mmd Berndt provides a project overview and professional reflection. (Note: this is also included in the video introduction).
Video (overview and student work)
~Mark
This post is an update to an earlier post: Scaling Edu Change, with resources 18 through 25 being new since the previous post.
I have enjoyed being involved in this project.
Join in!!!. How will you participate in open learning by scaling up?
~Mark
Note: Creative Commons image by Flickr user Paolo Margari
I enjoyed the opportunity to present The Art of Teaching in a Fast-Changing World yesterday with Alison Bullock at the CNIE 2017 conference in Banff. Our session resources are included in this post.
Video of Presentation:
~Mark
Resources prepared for the Journey to 1 : 1 presentation at ConnectEd 2017 are shared in this post. Many thanks to instructional leader Jamie Reaburn Weir for teaming up with me for this session.
Note: This video was prepared from the Livestream archive.
~Mark
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the ConnectEd 2017 conference this week, and certainly enjoyable to see so many wonderful people in my PLN face to face for conversations.
A personal highlight included the opportunity to present two different sessions with Jamie Reaburn Weir. In this post, I am sharing the resources we prepared for this Dell sponsored session which focused on setting a context for tackling barriers for change.
Note: This video was prepared from the Livestream archive.
~Mark
Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2017 Educational Technology Strategy Summit to share the WRDSB “going 1:1” journey in a panel discussion presentation.
The discussion was moderated by teacher Andrew Bieronski. I was joined on the panel by Ed Doadt (Principal), Jamie Reaburn (teacher), students Tara and Brooke.
The discussion was well received, noting that there were many positive comments about the journey, the sharing of research and observations and including student voices in the session.
Have a listen:
Session sketchnote:
Resources:
Conference Twitter Stream: #edutech17
~Mark
This blog post shares the resources from my presentation session at Floradale Public School on technology in learning.
~Mark
I enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to participate in and present at the inaugural Learn By Design conference hosted at the International School of Brussels. This was a wonderful experience and I enjoyed meeting so many fantastic educators and students.
I want to take a moment to introduce two new friends, Peter (centre) and Fred (left), who are undertaking an interesting project to provide real help to dogs with disabilities.
In this video, recorded at the conference, Peter and Fred share their vision, research and action plan to date. I am sure you will be impressed with their vision.
Peter and Fred pitch their idea to the Learn By Design attendees.
You can connect with Peter and Fred via their twitter account or website.
Twitter: @savingpawprints
Website: https://1geep8.wixsite.com/savingpawprints
I look forward to our continued dialog as they move their plan into action.
~Mark
One of the highlights from my week was participating in a “mystery hangout”. This particular (Google) hangout had an interesting twist with teachers and students learning together and collaboratively.
The Plan: Heather Theijsmeijer leveraged her PLN twitter connections with Donna Fry and me to develop a plan to give the G Suite (Google Apps) lead teachers in Rainbow DSB a hands on experience with Google Hangouts to demonstrate the learning, collaboration and problem solving that can occur in this setting. After a call for participants, we firmed up the the Rainbow DSB GAFE lead teachers as one team, and Tania Bumstead’s Vista Hills P. S. class as the other team. Alison Bullock and I played an online support role in the process as fact checkers and communication with each team lead.
Team Vista Hills
Team Rainbow (screen capture)
The task was for each team to determine the location of the other team through a series of yes/no questions.
The experience: When it came time for he actual event, Heather connected everyone into the Google Hangout, and we were ready for a 45 minute learning situation, beginning with some introductions. The Vista Hills class worked in groups to tackle the tasks – receiving answers from team Rainbow, interpreting them and tracking them on Google maps. Another team generated potential questions and determined which question should be asked next. A third team interacted with team Rainbow and posed the questions. The excitement in the room was high, and there was a steady buzz throughout the session.
I was fascinated with the ingenious yes/no questions asked by the two teams as they working through the process of solving the geography puzzle in front of them. Are you located
and finally, team Rainbow asked: are you located in KW? Team Vista Hills pressed on and with a couple more questions and one hint, determined team Rainbow was on Manitoulin Island.
It was evident to me that a great learning experience had been enjoyed by all, and that more mystery hangouts will occur in the future. Thanks to all the learners who participated in this event!
~Mark
~ Mark's Musings ~ blog.markwcarbone.ca 