Math in Movie Making

I love TED Talks!!! 

Here is a TED Talk about how math in essential in animation making!!

So when students ask why we need math...well here is one of the answers!
Taking middle and high school math in day to day animation!

Very interesting...Enjoy.

Vegas Baby!!!!

Imagine over 7000 K-12 teacher coming together to LEARN served with a side of Partying! This is what is happening in Las Vegas July 7-11 2014 at the 2014 Staff Development for Educators National Conference.  

Who would've thought that I would be spending my first week of summer vacation at a teacher conference...well here I am.  I'm attending this conference to enhance my knowledge on integrating technology into my teaching.  

I've been attending some amazing workshops.  Sharing of Best Practises with other teachers has been refreshing and (I know I'm nerd) exciting!!!!

Stay tuned for more posts on the different things I discovered at the SDE Conference!

2014 SDE Conference Link

Get Your Google On...Google Docs

Get Your Google On with Google Docs

Last weekend Annie Kartos and I had the privilege of workshopping other TDSB teachers  on the fabulous Google App, Docs.  

Google Docs allow students to collaborate with their classmates from anywhere in the world with only an internet connection.  For teachers, Google Docs allows us to read the students' work live and in real time.  One of the features I really like on Docs is the ability to see ALL the work the students have done.  Anyone who have editing privileges can go back and see all the revisions that have been done throughout the  process.  This is great for monitoring progress and assessing students.  Another feature of Google Docs that comes in handy for teachers who find descriptive feed back time consuming.  You can leave your feed back right online...students have instant feedback. 

Click here to view our Presentation on Google Docs

Feel free to email me if you have any questions.  I'll do my best to answer them.

Happy Googling!!!

PRESENTING AT GOOGLE CAMP!!!!

Recently my friend and colleague A. Kartos and I applied to be presenters at our school board's first annual Google Camp.  Much to our surprise we were accepted as presenter and we are very excited to be taking part of this amazing professional development opportunity.  

If you are a Toronto District School Board Teacher and you are interested in attending Google Camp, it is going to be held on Sat. May 10th, 2014., at Earl Haig Secondary School at Yonge and Shepard. 

This Google Camp will be very informative for those teachers who have not discovered all the applications that Google has to offer. Google Drive is a great tool for student and teachers alike.   Come and learn with us!
Hope to see you there...

iPad Apps and Blooms Taxonomy

Video Game Reviews

Language Arts meets Tech...A Love Story

As a writing assignment each of my students in grade 7 & 8 were asked to write a video game review. With the support of my teacher-librarian we team taught "how to write a good video game review."  As a class we looked a examples of online video game reviews and came up with the success criteria.  The class used their writer's workshop centre time to conference with Ms. Kartos and make changes and improvements on their review.  Once the reviews were handed in the student then presented their reviews to the class.  I've embedded a few examples of the visual aids the students created to support their oral video game reviews.  

Social Media and the Tween

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