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Cultivating Connection Podcast Episode 23: Connecting with your Librarian with James Allen

James Allen is currently the Statewide School Library Lead and a Digital Learning Coach for the Kentucky Department of Education. He was a public K-12 school librarian for sixteen years. In this episode, James shares tips and ideas for working with your school librarian. Connect with James @TLJamesA on Twitter and www.tljamesa.com You can find our […]

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Cultivating Connection Podcast Episode 5: Podcasting in Education

In this collaborative episode hosted by Joel Templeman of Tech Manitoba, Leah Obach and Devon Caldwell are joined by other podcasters in education for a panel discussion. As you listen, you’ll learn more about how to get started with podcasting and recommended tools/software/apps. All participants share the lessons they’ve learned about podcasting and some pitfalls

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Our Pattern Pictures

This week, we connected with our partner classroom, the Oak Lake Community School Kindergarten class, via video call.  After a quick review of the student-generated guidelines for a great video call from last week, we focused on a patterning lesson.  The grade 1s in my class were able to explain what they know about patterns

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One Hour, No Power

We have been working on reducing our energy consumption through the One Hour, No Power challenge as part of our Classroom Energy Diet.  Students in my class chose to aim for 10 hours without power to achieve the highest level for this challenge.  For this challenge, the description stated “One hour of no power is

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Olympics Project: Building Knowledge of our Olympic Athletes

We’ve made some exciting connections with athletes through social media, which has led to further Olympics inquiry.  Once we’d learned about pairs skaters Paige & Rudi, hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser and skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth, we were excited to find out about other athletes.  Our class decided that our Olympics project should include research to

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