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.