Jane and I both enjoyed the experience of being interviewed by Ottawa Morning host Kathleen Petty this morning.  We talked about our recorder program and our experiences at the Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum held in Brazil a few weeks ago. … Continue reading →

Listen Links ECOO Conference Teachers Connecting Peter Skillen Blog/Podcast Picks Blog Challenge – by Ms. Wyatt Mr. Baird’s 4/5 Class Blog by Matthew Baird Web Resource http://cybersmartcurriculum.org http://pbskids.org/license/index.html Lesson Student avatars from MrToft.ca My Avatars (handout in PDF format) Credits … Continue reading →

Listen Podcast Picks theedublogger.edublogs.org cmoi.edublogs.org Jane, her new djembe and Leo Brooks (by the way, that was Leo playing her djembe in our podcast) Leo Brooks’ percussion site treefrogpercussion.ca Web Resources prezi.com power4bones.com prezi.com The Lesson Examples of Public Service … Continue reading →

Listen Happy 1st birthday to Portable PD!  Here’s hoping we get at least 8 more eight episodes out by this time next year. Links ECOO Call for Presenters Microsoft Innovative Teachers 2009 Podcast Picks Spark – CBC Radio Between the … Continue reading →

Listen This episode is all about our trip to Toronto to take part in the Expanding Our Boundaries workshop facilitated by Will Richardson.  We give a wrap-up of the events and share our interview with Will Richardson. Links http://willrichardson.wikispaces.com Will … Continue reading →

We’ve re-posted this podcast.  There was a technical glitch on my end.  Hopefully I got it right this time. Episode 7  is in production – but so are report cards… photo credit Listen January’s coming to an end and we’ve … Continue reading →

photo credit It’s been a cold and snowy week here in Stittsville.  Maybe that gave us time to get out our fifth episode of PortablePD.  Hope you enjoy it. Listen News The much anticipated cover for our book, Web Tools for Kids, … Continue reading →

Episode four has arrived.  We hope you enjoy it. Listen Links ECOO Conference Jane’s class blog Nathan’s class blog Podcast Picks The Clever Sheep (more of a blog) The Clever Sheep’s podcast (also known as Teacher 2.0) Mr. Carruther’s Grade … Continue reading →

Summer’s over and we’re back into the swing of things.  In our third episode we bring news of two exciting contests, our podcast picks, two wonderful web resources and an easy-to-use tutorial on adding a Google Calendar to your blog. … Continue reading →