Larissa Aradj, Canada, Primary, Junior, Elementary, French Immersion, Ed Tech, HPE
Larissa is a technophile French Immersion teacher with the TDSB whose passion is to use and implement technology in her classroom and to share her knowledge with like-minded teachers and learners. She is juggling her many roles as a doting mom, loving wife, multifaceted educator, and digital teacher-leader--is there an App for that??
Since 2007, Larissa has been blogging for parents and schools. This personal blog is her leap into a new digital adventure.
Mrs. Geek Chic -A Blog for Teachers
A Blog for Teachers, Ed Tech, Teaching Resources, Tips, Inspiration, French Immersion, Health & Physical Education
I teach grade 6/7 at Wallace Public School. We are just scratching the surface with blogging, and I have 23 students who are keen to connect with other countries via the blogging platform!
McBloggin' 6/7 - currently offline
At this point, our class blog is set up as a link to our student blogs. We are currently posting pictures for a picture challenge for Art class, and we are planning to delve more deeply into written blogs about our learning in the near future.
We are keen to connect with classes both within our country and overseas! We want a new audience for our learning.
Theme: beginners, fledgling, keen, social, variety of interests
I am a teacher with twenty years of teaching experience at the junior level. I am an Apple Distinguished Educator and SMART Exemplary Educator and an experienced and proven leader in the integration of all types of technologies within the classroom.
I am passionate about sharing best practices, ideas, resources, lessons and student exemplars with teachers and administrators throughout the world. I have presented workshops at the local, regional and provincial level.
Mr.C's SharesEase Blog
After spending eight months creating and sharing Mr.C’s SharesEase, a website intended to SHARE my best lessons and practices with teachers throughout the world, I’m excited to take my next step into edublogging! Mr. C’s SharesEase BLOG is intended to give you a glimpse into my classroom and SHARE my thoughts, experiences, ideas, stories and insights from being an educator for 20 years.
Educator investigating the intersection between Knowledge Building, Indigenous perspectives, Edtech & New Pedagogies for the 21st Century. Desire2Learn Instructor for AQ & OntarioLearn College courses; Teacher-Librarian Specialist; Science & Technology; Counselling Pychology, GD.
Theme: educational technology, first nations metis & inuit, FNMI, indigenous education, digital citizenship, science and technology, special education, innovation, pedagogy
Steve Gillis, Canada, Educational Technology, K-12
My name is Steve Gillis, M Ed (Athabasca University, 2009). I’m a teacher, instructional designer, and entrepreneur – I am the President & Chief Learning Officer of Net Learning Solutions Inc. I have spent more than 15 years using educational technology in the classroom.
My goal is to help teachers who are challenged by educational technology to feel comfortable enough to use it in their teaching practice.
Classroom technology Help - currently offline
Classroom Technology Help is a blog written for teachers that feel challenged by educational technology, yet want to learn how to use it in their teaching practice so that they can engage their students.
Heather, Canada, Primary to Adult, Writing and Everything Else
I have students of all ages for more than 20 years. I have helped kindergarten kids learn their ABC's and business college students discover English as a second language.
suburbanprincessteacher
It's (at times) a humourous look at teaching and living in the suburbs. It includes rants, raves, advice, and confessions.
Kyle Pearce currently splits his daily schedule between teaching at Tecumseh Vista Academy K-12 School in Tecumseh, Ontario and Intermediate Math Coaching with the Greater Essex County District School Board through the Middle Years Collaborative Inquiry (MYCI) Project.
He currently leads an iPad Educational Technology pilot project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education‘s Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) called Tap Into Teen Minds. His 1:1 iPad Paperless Math Classroom has been a huge success in eliminating paper, reducing costs, and increasing student engagement & achievement in grade 9 mathematics. A project which began with one class set of 30 iPad 2 tablets looks to expand in the near future.
Tap Into Teen Minds -currently offline
Step inside the Tap Into Teen Minds iPad Educational Technology Blog to learn about how to create your own paperless classroom using Apple iPad or Android tablet. Tutorials, resources, and more!
Theme: mathematics, edtech, educational technology, ipad classroom, ipad in education
Michael Quinn, Canada, Secondary, Higher, Science, Edtech
Former neuroscientist turned educator. . .former european turned north american. . . passionate about education in general but about EdTech and Science education in particular.
Paradigm Swerve - currently offline
Blog about changing paradigms in education in light of research findings and the edtechj revoloution.
Cool Canuck Blogger; Info2Go,High School Teacher-Librarian/Teacher of Web 2.0 skills:Learning Commons; Advisory Board Member of Global Education Conference; Social Media Curator at BagTheWeb; Paperli and Scoopit. Eco-futurist; passionate about 21st Century teaching/learning and ed tech.
I am an elementary teacher in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I have been teaching for 12 years going on 13. I love to read and play soccer and volleyball.
Primary Flynn Where learning begins
Just a place where I can put down what is going on in my classroom and to write about what I'm doing and how I organize my classroom.
I have been teaching for over 25 years in North and South America. Currently, I teach grade 2 in a Spanish Bilingual school in Calgary, Alberta.
A Teacher's Ruminations - currently offline
This blog is a place for me to reflect and question my own practices and current educational policies. From time to time, I will share reviews of books I've read. I also post vignettes of classroom events, both successful ones and not so successful ones.
I am a Grade 7 teacher and mom to two boys. I teach in a small town in PEI, Canada.
Lessons From The Middle - currently offline
My blog is for middle school teachers, especially, but there are lots of ideas and information for all grade levels. I try to have useful, insightful content on my (Canadian) middle school teaching blog.
Teacher-Librarian Upper Grand District School Board, U of Alberta TL-DL grad student, Struggling for perfection but my artist keeps getting in the way.
Threadbare Beauty
Blogging about my process in digital fluency development, learning the complexity of teacher-librarianship, walking the line between educational reform and changing my corner of the public education system.
Wife of Tim King and Mom of Max
Theme: library, technology, education, digital fluency, professional learning network, pedagogy, critical thinking, differentiation
I am a teacher and will always be a teacher. Currently, I am the Director of Technology for Wild Rose Public Schools in Alberta, Canada. I have taught all grades from 7-12, specializing in social studies, English and computers.
I have previously held division-level positions including Instructional Technology Coordinator and Resource Based Learning Consultant.
The Director's Chair
Comments, insights and opinions related to education, technology and technology in education.
Mrs. Dare began her career as an elementary school teacher after graduating from the University of Western Ontario and London Teachers’ College. She later joined the Department of External Affairs and served in Hong Kong and Barbados. As a result of her concern for the state of education in Ontario, Mrs. Dare was one of the founding members of the Organization for Quality Education (OQE).
She was OQE’s founding president, a director of the Society for Advancing Educational Research in Education, a member of the Advisory Committee on Judicial Appointments for the Province of Ontario (West and South), and the author of How to Get the Right Education for Your Child and Stairway to Reading. Mrs. Dare is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of School Choice.
School For Thought
A discussion of k-12 effective educational practices in Canada.
Theme: school choice, education reform, reading, math, effective instruction, direct instruction, ontario education, charter schools, vouchers, mathematics, instruction, dyslexia, systematic phonics
Valeria Palladino, Canada, Adult, English as a Second or Additional Language
Valeria Palladino is long time long-life learner. A second language teacher by trade, with ESL, Italian and Spanish as a second language backgrounds, she taught at all levels of K-12 schools on two separate continents and is currently involved in teaching and curriculum design at NorQuest college, with English in the workplace courses.
She holds a BA in Foreign Languages, a BEd in secondary education and an MEd in secondary education. She is also completing her Masters of Arts in Communication Technologies at the University of Alberta.
She has worked under consultant, resource manager and coordinator roles with two key education stakeholders: Alberta Education, in the public school system, with a focus on developing digital learning objects, and with the International and Heritage Languages Association (IHLA) as a coordinator, working with community-based language learning schools, assisting with the development of curricula, professional development opportunities for school instructors and learning resources of various nature. For NorQuest College she has been working as an instructor and a curriculum designer as well as an instructional designer for online learning opportunities.
Her professional development activities and presentations of workshops and sessions bring Valeria all over north America. She has recently presented at the ACTFL Conference in Boston, offered local and provincial sessions in Alberta for teachers of second languages, and will be speaking at two national conferences in 2011: The TESL Conference in Halifax, April 2011 and the CASLT conference in Montreal, April 2011.
Valeria has also been a member of the Alberta Association for Multicultural Education (AAME) on behalf of IHLA since 2004. She has worked as a sessional instructor for University of Alberta, teaching methodologies and curriculum courses for pre-service teachers, in second language and cultures.
At home Valeria enjoys the privilege of raising two young boys, Michele and Marco, and taking part in community oriented activities, especially in the Italian community of Edmonton. She travels often and makes a point of remaining closely tied to her home in Rome, Italy. On her spare time she writes travel blogs, teaching ideas blogs and publishes readers for young second language students.
ESL Adaptations Readings
Reading Reviews for ideas on Adaptation Challenges and Benefits of ESL F2F Curricula into Online Environments. A portion of the readings reviews in this blog has been funded by Alberta Employment and Immigration for a project at NorQuest College. However this remains a personal blog.
I am a language educator with a passion for technology and online learning. All my teaching and information blogs are available at my home blog: Valeria Palladino
Theme: ESL, language education, research, technology, online learning
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