ESSB RECIT

…making IT easy for classroom teachers!
...making IT easy for classroom teachers!

Google Scribe

Google Scribe helps students write better documents! A free, web-based, word prediction tool provides students with related word or phrase completion suggestions as they type. It also checks documents for incorrect phrases, punctuations, and other errors like misspellings. Schools will welcome Google Scribe as an alternative to proprietary software such as WordQ™. Although Google Scribe [...]

Robotics at Flemming

On February 10, 2011, Vanessa DaSilva, Ms. Pam, and I introduced a Robotics unit to 18 of Ms. Vanessa’s students at Flemming Elementary School. During the double period, students learned to define a robot, about lo[...]

LEARN announces Success Checker

LEARN has recently released Success Check, a new resource for Quebec anglophone students and teachers that will allow them to access tests and personalized study guides for the following courses: Math Cycle 2, Year 1 Mat[...]

Extra! Extra! Read the 2nd ESSB RECIT Newsletter!

The second RÉCIT newsletter for ESSB teachers and educators is now available online. A colour hardcopy has been sent to each school but why wait? Read it first HERE![...]

Goodbye and Thank you!

Dear colleagues, It is with much regret that I must inform you that I will no longer be the RECIT representative for the Eastern Shores School Board as of June 30. At a meeting of the Council of Commissioners yesterday, [...]

Professional Development Grants for 2011-2012

Professional Development and Innovation Grants are now available to Quebec teachers and administrators.  The deadline for applications is April 25, 2011.  Please visit LEARN Quebec’s website and remember that you wi[...]

Poll Your Students

So you have a SMART Board and you want to make your lessons more engaging. How do you make your interactive whiteboard more, umm, interactive? (Author’s note: you don’t need a SMART board to take advantage of[...]

The Daily CAFE

The Daily CAFE is a professional development resource which supports The Daily 5 and The CAFE and has been recommended by Lisa Mosher, ESSB’s Literacy Consultant. Lisa explains that “[i]t is an amazing site [...]

An Interactive Whiteboard and Laptop for Every Teacher

On February 23, 2011, Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec, delivered his inaugural address to the National Asssembly. RECIT representatives and educational technology advocates throughout the province were surprised by the a[...]

Convert Files and Download Videos With Zamzar

Have you ever struggled to convert a file from one format to another? Maybe you want to create a PDF from a DOC or you want to convert a DOCX to a DOC? If so, then you should consider the web-based utility, Zamzar. Zamza[...]