myBlueprint
myBlueprint is a Canadian-based online educational planning tool that provides a platform for students to explore and document their academic and vocational interests, eventually creating a step-by-step roadmap to achieve their goals. Students in grades K-6 can use All Aboue Me to reflect on their learning, track their growth, and share their achievements with teachers […]
Digital Portfolios; Documenting an Ongoing Learning Journey
Assessment as an opportunity for growth Assessment helps guide the learner towards understanding their misconceptions and can help them use feedback to set new learning goals. In other words, it allows students to know where they are, where they wish to go and what they need to do to grow. “Assessment is today’s means of […]
Electronic Signatures
Teaching and working remotely brings about new challenges many of us haven’t considered. Authorizing documents through your signature may seem complicated when you cannot sign a digital screen with your pen. Thankfully, there are many solutions to this issue. Note that this post only covers electronic signatures and not digital signatures. Digital signatures involve cryptographic […]
VR Tours & Literacy
NOTE: As of June 2021, Google Tour Creator is being discontinued (and this post and accompanying video resources will be archived/removed) Have you considered how 360° video, images, Augmented and Virtual Reality might help spark your students’ creativity and, perhaps, engage them in the ‘place’ or setting of a novel? In the past, such technologies […]