UBC Blog Tutorial 4 – Changing Privacy Settings
As a teacher creating a blog or portfolio, protecting privacy isn’t just about protecting yourself but is also about being mindful of your students. As you build your blog, you’ll want to ensure that you protect student privacy – please note that you may upload student work product and images (with appropriate permissions and/or with […]
FreshGrade ‘Lunch and Learn’
Bring your lunch to the Scarfe Sandbox and practice incorporating portfolio based assessment using FreshGrade with your class. FreshGrade is a free application being used in Districts across the lower mainland and BC to support interactive, learner centered, formative assessment and communicating student learning with parents. *FreshGrade is ‘FOIPPA’ compliant – all data is house […]
Take a Break and Make!
Visit one of our ‘pop up’ mini-makerspaces in the Scarfe Digital Sandbox – Scarfe 155 (Tuesday 12:45 – 2 beginning September 29th & the last Wednesday of each month 12 – 1pm). Explore ways to bring hands-on learning to your classroom through activities that spark imagination through playful exploration and invention. This activity is particularly […]
Mystery Skype!
SandboxSkype_MysterySkype Handout On Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, the Scarfe Digital Sandbox hosted a ‘Mystery Animal Skype Session’. We Skyped with a kindergarten class who are learning about animals and will participate in a “20 questions style” video conference where they try to guess our animal and we try to guess theirs. This is another version […]
Search Smarter not Harder!
Are you busy searching for articles and resources to complete your inquiry project or to support your lesson and unit planning? Did you know that the UBC Ed library has links to your school district’s online resources and resource catalogues? Visit the Resource tab in this blog for more info. You can also download this […]