Category Archives: teacher training
A Terrific Opportunity!
I remember Doug telling me that one should praise locally and complain globally as a professional who blogs. So welcome to a praise page! If good PD looks like this. Then… My school division has embarked on a good path. … Continue reading
Filed under education, personal, teacher training
New Starts
We’re back at school and it has been quite the ride. It is something else to come off of leave into the ‘real world’. I have a marvelous staff and I’m not saying that simply because this is public. My … Continue reading
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Children’s literature as a genre
What’s a genre? A category of literature distinct from other types by its distinctive characteristics. Is children’s literature a genre? Nodelman and Reimer look for the characteristics that might be considered common to most children’s literature to answer this question. … Continue reading
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A colonial brain trying to be post-colonial
I have been attending Congress 2007 and am trying to process some of what I have taken in there. I have attended quite a number of workshops but most of them have carried a similar thread about the importance of … Continue reading
Filed under children's lit, education, identity, learning, social justice, teacher training
Making connections
I have had a terrific time talking with teacher librarians and teacher librarian wannabes in my courses through the University of Alberta. It is a dynamic and excited bunch of people. I think they are typical of the people that … Continue reading
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Over-Underwhelmed – TLit – 2007
I have received some offline comments about this post and I’m stewing about them. I have thought about whether I should pull it but I’m going to try and make some adjustments to make myself more clearly understood. The adjustments … Continue reading
Prisoners of Time
Time is a scarce commodity. No one has enough. We talk about how busy we are and how much there is to do. How do we fit it all in? In “Prisoners of Time“, A U. S. National Education Commision … Continue reading
Filed under curriculum, education, teacher training
The unending Web.20
Within my course on information technologies for learning, we have been looking at the different possbilities for integrating technology into the curriculum. The possibilities are endless and as a friend put it just today – “Sometimes it feels as if … Continue reading
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21st Century Skills
Janice Friesen‘s article, Giving Students 21st Century Skills in Multimedia Schools (2003) gives a quick a dirty look at the need for a new kind of assignment in school. She highlights some of the advantages of the Big Six research … Continue reading
Filed under edutech, library, literacy, research, teacher training
Copyright, plagiarism and school
It is interesting how copyright, free speech and plagiarism are connected. I don’t think I had thought about them as being in a package before. I am trying to make a diagram of it in my mind. I keep thinking … Continue reading
Filed under education, free speech, literacy, responsibility, teacher training
