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    Exploring Open Education and OERs with EdTechOpen

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    For the next two weeks I have the pleasure of helping coordinate Open Education and OERs with David Porter, Clint Lalonde and Sandy Hirtz. It’s an EdTechOpen course, the second iteration of a course that originally ran in December, 2014. It’s a real privilege for me to have the opportunity to work with Clint and David […]

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    The Fascinating Femme Fatale Radio Show

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    On March 23rd, 2015 at 7pm MST I had the pleasure of participating in Rockylou Radio’s #ds106 radio production: the Fascinating Femme Fatale. You can listen to the whole show, or selected parts and flip through the print ads created for it in Rochelle’s fantastic multimedia flipbook. You can listen to DS106 radio live anytime.  

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    Making and Marketing Chocolates in Grade 8

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    I recently has the honour of being invited to a launch party showcase for the SMAK-G Chocolate Company. The invitation read: The grade 8 students at Michael Strembitsky School have spent the last 5 weeks engaged in a unique learning opportunity that combines multiple curricular outcomes and competencies into a real-world scenario.  The students were […]

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    Intro to OER in K-12

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    This afternoon I presented a session on Open Educational Resources (OER) for teachers at the Alberta Distance Learning Centre (ADLC). It was a great session. There were participants from across the province, plus one participant from New Brunswick connected and viewing the slides on Bridget and watching the video via video conference. Here are the slides […]

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    Teachers Teaching Teachers for Open Education Week

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    Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its purpose is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Participation in all events and use of all resources are free and open to everyone. As part of Open Education Week, the New York City Writing Project […]

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    Edmonton’s First Startup Weekend Education

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    What is Startup Weekend? Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. StartupWeekend.org has hosted 1500 events in 726 locations around the world. Last weekend we held Edmonton’s first ever Startup Weekend Education (SWEDU) and the first Startup Weekend in four […]

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    Startup Weekend Education Edmonton

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    I’m excited about a brand new event happening in Edmonton this coming weekend, Mar 6-7. It’s a fun, mini Dragon’s Den style entrepreneurial experience called Startup Weekend EDU. I am on the volunteer organizing team. SWEDU is a chance for youth in grades 9-12 and educators to learn from and work with experienced entrepreneurs, designers, […]

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    TEDx Youth Edmonton, Feburary 21 2015

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    Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the second annual TEDx Youth Edmonton event at the Royal Alberta Museum. Here are the inspiring speakers, the did a fantastic job!   This is an archive of the back channel on Twitter [View the story “TEDx Youth Edmonton – Redefining Normal” on Storify] Thanks to everyone who helped […]

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    Open Educational Resources – Beyond the Binder

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    Yesterday at the Palliser District Teacher’s Convention I had the pleasure of co-presenting a session about Open Educational Resources (OER) with my friend Verena Roberts. It is always great when I get to see Verena face to face, as we usually communicate through email, direct message on Twitter and hangouts, but this was special because we were presenting a […]

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    Disconnected Learning again, sigh

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    Today after work I’ll be heading to Calgary for my annual Teacher’s Convention. I believe in lifelong learning and participate in and deliver professional learning opportunities on a regular basis but I never look forward to convention because there is no WiFi so I need to disconnect from my learning network in order to learn, and I […]

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    CTF Bottle Rockets

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    On Thursday January 29th I was at ERLC’s CTF/CTS Day at WP Wager and Louis St Laurent schools. Dave, Danielle and I did a session about CTF in the morning, there was a big crowd with some great questions and comments. In the afternoon we participated in Dennis Pratt‘s session “Projects Plans & Presentations”. He […]

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    Startup Weekend EDU Edmonton is next month!

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    One of the projects that I am working on right now is Startup Weekend EDU Edmonton which is taking place March 6-9, 2015 on the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) campus. It’s the first education-centric Startup Weekend hosted in Edmonton. The organizing team held the first ever Startup Weekend EDU in Western Canada last […]

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    Archive of 2nd Anniversary #Etmooc Twitter Chat

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    On Tuesday many of the participants from #etmooc, the Educational Technology and Media Mooc, gathered together for a Twitter chat to celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of #etmooc. We were celebrating the second anniversary of the launch of #etmooc, because although the scheduled events for #etmooc ended almost two years ago, the community that developed during […]

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    Fish Eye Fun

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    I got a smart phone for Christmas, the whole family did. The girls were ecstatic. I am enjoying my new phone, but have no plans to turn into one of those smart phone addicted zombies that surround me that seem more interested in their phones than what is taking place all around them. My phone, […]

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    Cubicle Decorating Craziness

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    We’re celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas at work. Today was the judging for the Cubicle Decorating Contest. Every year there are more competitors and the competition gets harder. Here are some of the entries. The Math, Arts and Communications branch won first prize with their Whoville display     My branch, Citizenship & Career […]

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    Exploring Open Education

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    This week I am helping facilitate a 5 day course about Open Educational Resources. The course started yesterday with an introduction to open educational resources (OER). The next few days feature case studies of OER internationally, in post-secondary and in K-12. I’ve been working with Verena Roberts to create the introduction to OER and K-2 […]

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    Spreading the Twitter Chat Love

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    I really enjoy Twitter chats. They are a great way to connect with the people in my PLN and to explore different educational topics. For the past two years I’ve also been hosting Twitter chats, participating as myself and using the PostEtmooc Twitter account. I enjoy hosting Twitter chats even more than I enjoy participating, […]

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