U of T astronomy skype

Mrs Jensen and Mr Longley’s class took part in a skype chat today with U of T astronomers through skype. Great questions from our grade three and six students!

Tech Aware: Facebook Discussion with Socrates Cafe

I was please to join a discussion with the Socrates Cafe at NPSS today about Facebook. We only hit the tip of the iceberg but I’m really looking forward to more. Karl did a great job moderating a very interesting topic! I’ve included the MP3 as this month’s Tech Aware podcast. Facebook Discussion Feb 25, […]

Parent Internet Session – March 10th

Come join Jarrod Bell (Principal of Technology) and Norbert Kaspar (Vice Principal NBCDES) as they present their second Parent Internet Session of the year. Demystifying the Internet (March 10 – 7:00 – 8:30 – SB0 – School District Office back door, in the District Development Centre) Facebook? Twitter? Youtube? Moodle? What’s all this stuff? This […]

Digital Tattoo Presentation – Feb 4 @ 4:45pm MST

I’ll be doing a presentation on Digital Tattoo – considerations for educators around their online public and private lives. February 4th, at 4:45pm MST on Elluminate, come join me for this CEET presentation (Community of Expertise in Educational Technology) http://elgg.openschool.bc.ca/pg/event_calendar/view/4015

BCeSIS notes…

BCeSIS Scheduled Outage: March 5 @ 5pm PST until March 9th @ 5pm PST. As noted on the www.isw-bc.ca will be a scheduled outage during the Provincial spring break which does not coincide with our spring break. You need to be logged off before the beginning of the outage as work entered may be lost […]

PowerSmart Idol

Very proud to come and do some video of six grade 4 students from Charlie Lake school who entered and won a BC Hydro PowerSmart contest for a radio spot. The students worked with their teacher, Linda Haugen, during their grade 3 year to plan, write, and produce their commercial entry. This week they had […]

Internet Safety Presentation with Parents

Internet Safety with Parents Had an enjoyable evening with several parents last night about internet and safety. I’ve included the presentation above, but it was mostly great conversations. I tracked questions and concerns on twitter and have included them below. jbellsd60 what are the right questions to be asking our kids? #sd60 jbellsd60 time and […]

Web 2.0 Tools in the Classroom

Here is a great Prezi which talks about a lot of the tools that can be used to engage students with technology. http://prezi.com/obqzirjhtf-q/