Moving My Blogs

On May 23, 2013 By

I started using a co-hosted server and my own domain six years ago. At that time I used it mainly for my blog. As time went on I used it to trial different web applications but, more and more, this server did not have everything needed to do this. So over the past two weeks I have [...]

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Reclaiming Spaces

On May 22, 2013 By

I have slowly started to move as much of my content as I can to one space.

Why? Things seem are disappearing.

This year it was Posterous and Google Reader. I just noticed that one of my blog pages no longer displayed what was happening in my life on a timeline because Memolane is no [...]

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Examview and Moodle

On May 21, 2013 By

I created a short guide on how to use Examview created tests using Screensteps. I uploaded it to the school wiki but wanted to make sure all of my content was somewhere beside my computer and a wiki that is out of my control.

I have used these quizes and tests for formative and summative [...]

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BrainGenie

On May 21, 2013 By

Another one of the CK12.org tools I mentioned.

There is no doubt that if you are looking at differentiation, flipping your classroom or just another classroom resource that this is a great site. BrainGenie offers a number of skill organized exercises.  It also has a great tracking system and provides a video tutorial for each  skill. Skills [...]

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I have started planning for my grade 6 tech course and one of the assessments I plan on using is a “How To” screencast. I have continued to look at Quicktime Player to see how it could be used in my class to do this. Was timely as my colleagues were having an email conversation [...]

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OSX System Audio

On May 14, 2013 By

Was doing some planning for next year when I got sidetracked looking at OSX system audio. I plan on using screencasts as an assessment tool so I started playing with Quicktime Player to see what I could do.

As my grade eights are illustrating a grade one book using scratch I thought I would try [...]

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