We were pleased to present at the Canadian Virtual Innovative Educator Forum this morning. Unfortunately, our slides did not work, so I have posted them below as reminders of our message!
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I was invited to contribute to Microsoft Partners in Learning Network’s Hot Topics blog on games based learning. Here’s one of my posts: As a Canadian kindergarten teacher, I spend my days immersed in the world of little people. Their brief attention spans, need for frequent movement breaks, and emerging 21st century skills require a
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I was invited to contribute Microsoft Partners in Learning Network’s Hot Topics blog on Games Based Learning. Here’s one of the posts: My first foray into games-based learning was completely…analog! Inspired by this article in NCTM’s Teaching Children Mathematics in April 2005, I was very excited to merge play and a unique new game with my
Infusing Technology into Games Based Learning: It’s a Game Changer! Read More »
Thanks to funding from a Manitoba Teachers Society Reflective Professional Practice Grant, we are spending a day researching game-based learning and developing game-based learning activities for our classroom. We will document findings, ideas and resources in this post. Microsoft Partners in Learning Network We visited the Hot Topics section to find out more about game-based
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Co-written by Mrs. Devon Caldwell, Mrs. Leah Obach & Mr. Chris Obach as follow-up to a conference call with Dr. Richard Van Eck, an expert in the area of gaming in education. Share your tips, tricks, ideas and questions related to gaming in the classroom on Twitter using #edugaming Where it all began… In 2008,
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We enjoyed sharing our Little Hands, Big World project one more time at tonight’s Microsoft Virtual University! Here’s the link to the World Wildlife Fund’s symbolic adoption program for our attendees: https://wwfstore.donorportal.ca/c-11-wildlife-adoptions.aspx Please feel free to contact us for further information about our project! We encourage you to connect with us on Twitter using #kids4sustainability
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As we start a new year, we want to take time to reflect on our incredible teaching and learning journey in 2012. We also wanted to collate some samples documenting our experience of sharing the Little Hands, Big World project at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. The PiLGF in Prague, Czech Republic proved
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We just finished setting up our display at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. As we put up our posters and set out reminder tags to give away, we were discussing how exciting it is to have the opportunity to share our students’ incredible work on this international scale! We are very proud of
At the end of last week, our polar bear adoption kits arrived from the World Wildlife Fund. There were squeals of excitement as soon as my students saw the WWF packing tape on the box! We opened the box and examined the contents together. We received information about polar bears and a stuffed toy polar
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We have been exploring animal rescue and animal needs. Our kindergarten class skyped the Brandon Humane Society and talked to one of the volunteers about what they needed for the dogs who lived there. After much discussion, the students decided that it would be possible to bake homemade dog treats for the dogs at the
Little Hands, Big World Has Gone to the Dogs! Read More »
