I see my ICT
skills and learning continuing on 3 different scales. On the smaller scale, within my school, I
will continue to work closely with the teacher in my school who has a strong
technology focus. M. Waldie recently
launched our school École Lac des Bois learning commons with many library
resources that I had posted on the school library website. I am supporting his encouragement of
using software with students to explore, create, and understand. Here is a presentation sharing ICT classroom opportunities he is encouraging students to use. I like this presentation on 2
levels, first I am trying Prezi for the first time with a class, and secondly
because it provides lots of other ideas of software to use with students…. like
maybe wordle in my poetry unit to encourage similies and metaphors! Here is a teacher that sees how student ICT skills can solve student
problems. I can see collaborating with M.
Waldie to help teachers in my school provide students access to things like
homework lists, assignments etc. I am still challenged by embedding these videos/presentations so more learning required.
In my School
District, I will be using our First class SD57 TL website for learning from my
colleagues. This is a great site where we share questions and answers, and celebrate new ideas. I will continue to take advantage of ICT professional development offered by my School District teacher librarians. For example they have scheduled 2 workshops this month on using licensed e-resources of World Book online and Culturegrams, and have booked presentation for our northern School District conference in February.
On a larger
scale, I will continue to use Pinterest to capture ideas from
other teachers and teacher librarians for library displays, lessons, and
resources. I will continue to look for
sources of information on French-immersion resources for teachers and students
on the web including blogs, tweets, reviews, etc., and in person. After the success of my last blog posting I
may consider continuing my blog with a French-immersion library resource focus
as a way to share my learning. I know will continue to explore topics on the
internet that I am teaching.
colleagues. This is a great site where we share questions and answers, and celebrate new ideas. I will continue to take advantage of ICT professional development offered by my School District teacher librarians. For example they have scheduled 2 workshops this month on using licensed e-resources of World Book online and Culturegrams, and have booked presentation for our northern School District conference in February.
On a larger
scale, I will continue to use Pinterest to capture ideas from
other teachers and teacher librarians for library displays, lessons, and
resources. I will continue to look for
sources of information on French-immersion resources for teachers and students
on the web including blogs, tweets, reviews, etc., and in person. After the success of my last blog posting I
may consider continuing my blog with a French-immersion library resource focus
as a way to share my learning. I know will continue to explore topics on the
internet that I am teaching.
I know that
I am not an early adaptor (Tipping point Malcolm Gladwell) but as new software
is developed and becomes mainstream, I will challenge myself to learn about it
and how it can be used to enhance student exploring, creating and
understanding. I do enjoy being a lifelong
learner!
References
Malcolm
Gladwell. 2002. The Tipping point: how little things can make
a big difference. Little, Brown and
Company, New York.
Azzopardi,
M. Using ICT to support learning. Retrieved Feb 10, 2013 from http://prezi.com/ovv7ms-ropfw/inset-using-ict-to-support-learning/
Eriksen, J.
Map students’ ICT skills with itslearning Retrieved Feb 10, 2014 from http://www.itslearning.eu/maps-students-ict-skills-with-itslearning 
Well done, some excellent ideas here to keep you connected with your peers in your district, as well as some good ideas for your individual explorations. I like that you call yourself a "lifelong learner" and that you are looking ahead to workshops and conferences in your district!
ReplyDeleteLeisbet, you have some great ideas of how to continue building a PLN. It is wonderful how you are stepping outside of your comfort zone and trying new things. It sounds like you have some great colleagues around you to support your learning.
ReplyDeleteOur district stopped using First Class last year as a new website was launched that offered a space for different groups to create a HUB. The feedback is that is has been incredibly under used and people miss the connections they made through First Class. Hopefully, as people become more comfortable with the HUB more groups will form and it will become an active learning environment again. Keep using yours!
You seem to have great support from your staff and you are exploring lots of great ideas. I know many of the teachers at my children's high school use Edmodo for connecting with students. Not sure how this would work with elementary school?
ReplyDeletePinterest can certainly become my go to resource and it has provided a lot of good resources for my personal and professional life :) Your http://www.ldblc.net/ website is very easy to navigate and I like the resources offered for parents too. I am not familiar with 'first class' but I will take a look :)
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