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Cultivating Community & Collaboration via Digital Media Literacy: A Project-based Approach to ENL1W
Presenters Alexandra (Xan) Woods [email protected] Blog: https://medium.com/the-reciprocal-teacher X handle: @xanwoods Amanda Potts [email protected] Blog: https://persistenceandpedagogy.com/ X handle: @ahpotts Summary The OTF Connects webinar entitled “Cultivating Community and Collaboration via Digital Media Literacy” was presented by Zan Woods and Amanda Potts. The session focused on integrating digital media literacy into the curriculum to enhance student …
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Integrating media literacy into the secondary English classroom
Using a Grade 10 English narrative unit as an example, we’ll explore how teachers might use online tools to deliver a media-literacy-integrated approach to the English curriculum? Using students’ prior knowledge and Google apps, teachers can manage a narrative unit that helps students understand and appreciate story codes and conventions and the roles that stories play in their lives. …
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Creating Digital Stories using iPad and iPhone Apps
Do you have iPads and iPhones in your classrooms? Are you interested in discovering how to engage students in learning and achieving some assessment goals? Using some amazing Apps, you can learn the basics of creating digital stories, newscasts, personal narratives, using green screen techniques and simple animations. This session will provide participants with many …
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Storytelling and Coding With Scratch
In this webinar participants design, build and code a working Scratch application that tells a story using principles of mathematics to support a narrative. Participants explore curriculum connections, learning skills and cross curricular entry points from numeracy and literacy across all grade levels. Note: K-8 examples are shared, however, secondary level teachers may still find this session …
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Heartware in the Classroom: Using 2.0 to Connect Students Globally
During this webinar, participants explore a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can be integrated into any classroom program in a meaningful way. Participants will be able to investigate how these engaging tools can be integrated into classroom practice while being embedded in collaborative projects. Examples of 2.0 tools to be explored Edublogs Glogster Voicethread …