Gaspe SMART Workshop
Escuminac SMART Workshop
On Monday, April 19 and Tuesday, April 20, Escuminac teachers and staff spent their pedagogical days with me to explore the SMART board! I was happy to explore some “Level 2″ material that I had learned earli[...]
Website Overhauled!
I’ve been working on overhauling the website. Please have a look and leave me your feedback. If you spot any bugs, please let me know. If you want to contribute, that’s great! You’ll see a number of p[...]
LEARN-RÉCIT Workshops
LEARN is still accepting registrations for the LEARN-RÉCIT full day April workshops: - Lesson design made easy with interactive white boards; - Media literacy which addresses the Media Literacy and Production requiremen[...]
ESSB Wiki, Blog and Calendar Sharing Services
The I.T. department at ESSB is working hard to bring teachers and students access to a number of new services: wiki, blog and shared calendars! Teachers may use their LEARN usernames and passwords to access these servi[...]
SMART Notebook Express BETA
Have you ever wanted to open or create a Notebook file on a computer that didn’t have the Notebook software? Maybe you were home, preparing a lesson for the next day’s lesson on the SMART Board but didn’[...]
GPI: ESSB’s New Report Card
Yesterday, the ESSB Council of Commissioners voted to adopt the GRICS report card: GPI. Secretaries will receive a two-day workshop (likely at our next RSEC). ESSB is the last school board in the province to adopt the GP[...]
Measure 30054
Grant money is available through MELS under the heading of “Program to Support Research and Development in Special Education.” Projects will, in many cases involve ICT. There are three distinct type of fu[...]
SMART Notebook Level 2
Yesterday, I was fortunate to attend a level 2 SMART Notebook workshop in Dorval. After having become familiar with the tools last Fall at DUCOM’s level 1 workshop in Matane, I’m now eager to make my SMART bo[...]
Text-education
The number of incidents relating to young people texting at inappropriate times or content has led to a new curriculum that will address this new, social problem. Read more about it in the Montreal Gazette or check it [...]
How-to
How-to Share Large Files
Ever experience the frustration of trying to send a file that’s too large to be sent by e-mail? Now there’s a free, online tool: senduit. You can send a file up to 100MB in size! It’s really easy and a useful tool for everyone’s toolbox.
Argh! Why is Youtube™ blocked?
Good question! Actually, it isn’t the content that is the problem. It seems that too many people abuse the site and this hogs all the bandwidth. Too many users slows down the school board network for all. However, there are always ways around this security measure for teachers. That’s why I wrote a tutorial to [...]
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