ADST Woodworking Basics Resources
Woodworking is an activity that can support life long skill development and the ADST curriculum across grade levels. With careful planning and consideration for safety (as well as appropriate school permission!) even very young children can learn to use hammers, saws, screwdrivers and other woodworking tools. In my own elementary school teaching, I had the […]
Pop Up Making! (in LLED 350 and 360)
This month, in the Scarfe Digital Sandbox (Scarfe 155) every teacher candidate in the Bed program (elementary, middle and secondary) will have the opportunity to participate in a ‘Makerspace’ as part of your orientation to Library and Information Literacy with your LLED 350 and LLED 360 course. In Scarfe 155 (through the ed lib), we’ll […]
Canada Learning Code : Introducing coding in your classroom
Canada Learning Code is a charitable initiative dedicated to advancing digital literacy for all Canadians. Founded in 2016, it has focused on designing, delivering and unifying coding education in Canada through partnerships with technology education programs such as Ladies Learning Code, Teachers Learning Code, Kids Learning Code, Girls Learning Code and Teens Learning Code. […]
Prezi Presentation Tips: Dos and Don’ts
Prezi is a visually based presentation software that supports a non-linear storytelling approach to presentations. With many affordances, including the ability for the audience or presenter to zoom in and zoom out of the screen, Prezis can be powerful but they can also be problematic. You may have used or seen a Prezi presentation. In case […]
ThingLink: Annotate Images and Videos
Thinglink is a web-based and iOS / Android application that allows you to embed audio, video and other rich media links directly into images and share them across the web. Using Thinglink, you can engage your students with images text, video, songs and sound clips allowing them to explore the concept or big idea of a unit […]
