Some days things just go sideways and best laid plans don't work out. I was going to be attending the Sockeyes game with many other Diefenbaker students (they won 2-1) but then a couple of different family situations came up...
Anyway, a really neat thing was also happening in our district today after school over at Homma Elementary, where over 120 teachers got together to learn more about technology integration.
WINTERTECH38:
http://public.sd38.bc.ca/~gpowell/tech/FOV4-000D2822/FOV4-000D2823/?1-20
is the link to the evening's "program" of the presenters and it looks pretty great. If you click on any of those grey links with the chain (link) below the coloured pic/avatars it will take you to the document created by the presenters (Chris Loat, Janice Novakowski, Gordon Powell, Lisa Schwartz, Peter Ritchie and Jenn Barker, to name a few)... Lots of valuable information and techy tips in there.
At Diefenbaker, our generous PAC has just given us the ability to purchase 10 more iPads so that we will have enough for each student in a class to use one (so, 30 altogether). This will allow our teachers to use Apps like BookCreator, Haiku Deck and Explain Everything. Wouldn't it have been great if I could have cloned myself to be able to be everywhere I needed to be tonight. Maybe we'll be able to do that sooner than we think.
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