Great Work Grade 6 Students on World Math Day!

Posted March 26, 2013

Congratulations!! On behalf of the World Education Games Team we are pleased to present your school with the enclosed Certificate of Distinction for the World Education Games. Your students did really well in Mathletics and as a result your school received one of the highest scores of schools participating from Ontario.

Apps Can Make Fun & Learning the Same Thing – Four Pictures One Word

Posted February 28, 2013

A grade 8 student shared a great learning App with a teacher here at our school and now many staff and students are hooked on “Four Pictures One Word”.  It is a fun App with many curriculum connections and potential learning outcomes such as picture recognition, word-picture association and spelling.  In the picture below, the […]

Success Story #6 – Today’s Meet

Posted February 13, 2012

Today’s Meet (www.todaysmeet.com) is a technology website used by students with a tablet. Students used the ‘running conversation’ to ask questions before, during and after reading a shared text (we also used it for connection making).  It reinforces the idea that questions have to be done at many stages.  You can revisit the transcript of […]

Word To Go App

Posted December 11, 2011

Completion of short writing assignments.  Downloading and manipulating Word files from my Wikispaces.  Incredibly easy and motivating for students.  You can copy and paste text from an internet site into a Word to Go document.  Uploaded a word file to my wiki and students opened it in Word To Go to complete a graphic organizer.  […]

Voice Notes – More Uses

Posted December 11, 2011

Recording student voice Teacher voice recorded for student reference Oral research notes Instructions for the project or how to do research Record and playback answers to questions Record student discussions Record teacher instructions to listen to again as necessary Practice new languages both speaking and listening Create an audio file for a book to make […]

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