by Avi Spector
During a recent visit to NFSB’s Huntington Adult Education Centre, the RECIT team discovered an amazing initiative led by two teachers, Michael Werenchuk (Social Integration teacher) and Kathleen Hackett (Math/Science teacher) that directly benefits the centre’s SI students and the … Read More »
My first workshop this August was with a school that is in the process of starting a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) network. Starting this fall, students in this particular school will be allowed to use their own mobile devices … Read More »
Gotcha! April Fools Day! It’s funny how something so simple can seem quite complex when the technology is relatively new. Take for example this AT&T 1950’s instructional video that steps people how to dial a telephone, something that seems second … Read More »
Link: Voicenote Extension for Google Chrome Quick overview: Voicenote is an English voice-to-text software that works in your computer’s web browser that works WELL and is free! What is it? In a nutshell, using any microphone equipped Mac or PC … Read More »
Link: http://tinyurl.com/learnobjapps (EdTechTeacher.com) Quick overview: A list of iPad apps organized by learning objective, rather than by subject. OK, so what’s different about this list? If you’ve ever tried searching for iPad apps to use in your classroom, you may … Read More »
What is this about? After polling hundreds of FGA teachers from across the province, the area where FGA teachers indicated they needed the most help was networking with other teachers. As so, we’ve started a huge push towards helping teachers … Read More »
Link: www.prezi.com What is it? Prezi a popular on-line presentation tool that goes way beyond your typical PowerPoint. Prezi can be used by both students and teachers. Prezi offers free licenses for students and teachers. What’s Prezi? Well.. Prezi is … Read More »
Info: Videolicious for the iPad, iPhone, iPod. Cost: Free Quick overview: An overview of how we’ve used the Videolicious app with FSL and English students to help develop writing and communication competencies. An advantage to using Videolicious is that it … Read More »
Quick overview: Did you ever come across a school problem, especially in math, that uses a real-life context, but still didn’t make any sense? What is this about? In this 6-minute video presentation, my colleague Marc-André Lalande presents his thoughts … Read More »
Quick overview: Glogster for Education allows your students to create on-line “posters” that can contain text, images, digital pictures, videos, and sound clips. Glogster be used for any subject that requires students to produce a presentation. How does it work? … Read More »