I have always been drawn to the visual arts. I love designing, creating, and performing. Fortunately, being a teacher I get to do all of those things on a fairly regular basis. After taking CoETaIL course 3, I realized, however, that I could do all of them to such a greater extent. I realized that…
It’s nearing the end of the school year, and in grade five we are working on writing personal memoirs that span across the past 12 months. We’ve focused on different methods of autobiographical writing, such as personal narrative, vignettes, poems, and today we introduced snapshots. A snapshot differs from a personal narrative or vignette in…
I have to admit, I was not immediately enamored with Pecha Kucha presentations. While I liked the idea that I would only have to listen to someone ramble at me for 6:40, as a presenter it felt so prescribed and inflexible. 20 slides for 20 seconds? What if I only had 19 slides that were…
Especially with my students, I am guilty of cramming as much information and as many instructions as possible into my slides. Granted, I try to space out the information and link them to relevant images that will aid in the students’ understanding and retention of the material. However, when I started becoming “Zen,” my first…
Phew! After trolling twitter and the web for resources to use to create infographics, I stumbled upon a neat one called Creately. Because the space was limited, I ditched my first elaborate idea of comparing four different kinds of governments using a map of the world then a section for each. Sometimes, with kids and infographics,…
