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Saturday, August 05, 2006

summer before you know it

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To beat the clock, I've continued my school year ritual of rising early to get stuff done before anyone awakes. Now I've banished s...
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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Now that was a nice river

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The Stellako flows out of Francois Lake and drops 45 metres over 11 km down to Fraser Lake. With a shaky knee and gimpy foot I didn't g...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Samorost Game

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O.K. this is a very cool game which stole an hour from me early this morning.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Spring Break in Victoria

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Magnolia trees blooming, cherry trees spent... wow - a nice change from snowbanks and the "dog days" in PG when the melting uncove...
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Friday, March 03, 2006

March 3 workshop links

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Blogging and Beyond... Educational Technology to bridge the gap between curriculum and identity. Here are the workshop links: Formal Webque...
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Friday, January 13, 2006

Yurting

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Watch a 15-yr-old in a school computer lab and you'll see something new to a generation: yurting. Like Mongol nomads, the students pack...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

what I'm reading Christmas 2005!

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Data & Education

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pet peeve... when people analyze ordinal data as if it were interval data... I wasn't even aware of what this meant until a couple of ye...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

What I'm watching

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I've been getting up at weird hourse lately and have ended up watching a bunch of movies lately... 1. Apocalypse Now... I hadn't see...
Wednesday, October 05, 2005

What I'm reading

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Short History of Progress... finished this one in summer. The book laid out a timeline of human evolution as it relates to environmental im...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Back to Jack's room

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This year I find myself teaching all Socials again (finally) after the bumping and reassignments of the last few years in our school distric...
Friday, September 16, 2005

reflections on a meeting

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I met yesterday with a group of educators to review concepts of leadership, teaching, learning, and collaboaration (among other things). He...
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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Quality Learning Globally

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Over the last year or so, I've been involved with a "Quality Learning Globally" consortium organized by our school district...
Friday, June 17, 2005

some thoughts on PLCs

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Having recently attended a two-day workshop on instructional leadership (featuring/promoting the Professional Learning Community concept), I...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

What I'm reading

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Just finished Golden Spruce by John Vaillant... more than just the story of the guy who cut down the special tree on the Charlottes, this bo...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Website help needed

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Students!!! Please!!! I haven't updated my website in a looooong time. I'd like to redesign the whole thing... but what should it ...
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Friday, March 04, 2005

March 4th Blog This! links

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Digital Slideshow Presentation as a pdf file Internet bookmarks the from presentation - blogs, wikis, etc. A movie link to the Flintstones/...
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Thursday, March 03, 2005

Interesting find

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This is kind of cool... I came across an unofficial DP Todd newsblog
Monday, February 14, 2005

Semester 2 blogs

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Parents/Students: class blogs have been created/renewed for the second semester. Find your class at the Planning 10 blog , the English 9 b...
Monday, January 31, 2005

Models of Online Learning

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Asynchronous can be a student-paced “distributed” model (e.g. online modules) can also be a teacher-directed model (e.g. using web or so...
Friday, January 07, 2005

What I'm reading

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Right now, I'm reading Ken McGoogan's book Ancient Mariner (a biography of the Arctic explorer Samuel Hearne). While impressed with...
Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Where I went to school... SFU

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I went to SFU for teacher training in 1995 and as part of a Masters in Education in 2003. Like everyone else (I guess) I have a love/hate ...
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Where I went to school... UBC

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I went to UBC for about 5 years from 1989-1994. I took English, Geography, History, and Political Science courses in the Faculty of Arts a...
Friday, November 26, 2004

Multimedia/Powerpoint workshop

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Thanks for an enjoyable morning! Link to the workshop presentation (ppt file) Link to the Mac OSX Powerpoint tutorial (pdf file) Link to M...
Friday, October 29, 2004

OSX workshop links

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We looked at iphoto, itunes, imovie and a few other apps We looked at a few tools for using tech in the classroom: Create a blog Educa...
Monday, October 18, 2004

English & Planning Students!

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To avoid confusion and congestion, we're starting a new location for different groups: English 9 students, go to tenglish.blogspot.c...
Sunday, October 17, 2004

Blogging Tips

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It's a good idea to start at blogger.com so you can sign in (to edit your blog instead of just lokking at blogs). Remember... you can c...
Friday, October 15, 2004

Eng9 The Snow Woman & your story

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Once your class short story project is done, post it! That's right -- copy and paste it into a post on your blog for others to read and...
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Planning 10 classmates' blog addresses

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Here are your classmates' (Planning 10) blogs -- if your name is not on this list, it means you sent me nothing or the wrong address. ...

Planning 10: Health & Wellness Assignment

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Your task will involve choosing a health, social, or wellness issue on which to prepare a detailed "product" which answers some q...