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Flipped Professional Development
Traditionally professional development is organized by schools and organizations. However, with the wealth of online opportunities that are available, teachers can expand their own personal...
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In December 2014, my OSC co-author Barbara Stefanics wrote about the recent IB Pre-Publication document The role of technology in the IB programmes. Looking at the publication in more detail, I’m...
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New Approaches to Writing
I recently stumbled upon a free webinar based on a new book, ‘Reinventing Writing’ and quickly registered on WizIQ and joined. The time participating in Empower students with collaborative writing...
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Referencing Posters and a Google+ Profile
On a recent ECIS Moodle Librarians forum (Resources -> Referencing and researching tools) uber- Librarian — Katie Day (at UWCSEA East, Singapore) wrote: “Nadine Bailey and I have been creating...
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ATL Skills and Technology
Approaches to Teaching and Learning in the Diploma Programme (pre-publication guide) and the associated website focus on 5 categories for developing ATL skills across IB programmes. What is the intent...
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Two heads are better than one
In a recent post my colleague Barbara Stefanics highlighted collaborative learning in a studying-for-exams situation. About the same time, I read Stephen Down’s presentation on Cooperation and...
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How much data is created in a minute?
When considering on-going uploads 24/7 from the world, means Big Data that ticks over numbers at an incredible rate. The following infographic was created by Domo and is posted in the blog on their...
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Three-and-a-half Tips Using Google Docs
I want to pass on a few “tips and tricks” I’ve read recently for using Google docs. The first comes from Jarod Bormann: How to force “make a copy” when sharing a Google doc. Jarod wrote “Sharing a doc...
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Collaboration – India to Vienna
The task was clear – collaboratively create a series of webinars to investigate the role of technology in DP classrooms. Sounds easy enough if the two developers are in the same school, but the...
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Can that be real?
When reading a news post on the web, I often have occasion to ask myself “Can that be real?” or “Is this true?” and I’m often thinking about the image accompanying the post (as well as the post...
View ArticleHow should I cite this photo?
I recently read a blog post that featured this cute picture of 2 meerkats. I couldn’t see an image credit under the photo, so I looked at the bottom of the page, and found “Image source: Pixabay ”...
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What will they understand 20 years from now?
This morning my Flipboard reading brought me this news commentary: Do You Really Understand Why Water Boils? New Survey Says, Probably Not. by Nadia Drake. Ms. Drake writes about the newest Pew...
View ArticleGoogle – a new look!
Last month a new logo appeared on our screens in a new child-like typeface ‘Product Sans’. In its simplicity, it is the most significant change in Google’s logo history not only in design, but in the...
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Technology Rich and Innovative Poor
Cleaning off my desktop this morning, I found this pdf from Alan November, that I’ve been meaning to write about on this blog. The original post from November Learning is at this link. Written in...
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Separate the wheat from the chaff
In June I wrote a post for this blog titled Can this be real? about altered images, or misrepresenting images. Today in my ECIS Library Forum discussion thread, a colleague in Switzerland posted about...
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Teaching and Learning with Technology: the document
flickr photo by Rexton shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license At the beginning of December 2015 the IB published a new document online, Teaching and Learning with Technology. You can read the...
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Free Webinars in 2016
edWeb.net features free webinars on a wide range of educational topics including using technology in the classroom. One example is 6 Terrific Tools to Transform Your 2016 that highlighted 6 tools to...
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Using Public Domain Images
In August I wrote about how to cite Creative Commons photos. Today I’d like to investigate how or why to cite Public Domain photos. The following is not to be taken as legal advice, but as general...
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Are these in your Google Docs universe?
In a clever post from the Google for Work Official Blog, Looking back at Marie Curie’s radical discovery: How the Mother of Modern Physics might have used Google Apps, “we imagine how Marie Curie’s...
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WeTransfer your images and video
Students most frequently use cell phones for capturing images and videos for inclusion in IB work. These can be huge not only from the file size of each image or length of each video, but also from the...
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