Category: Life Musings
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The Things Kids Say…
I like to run my more “out there” ideas past my kids to see what they have to say about them and I have to admit I love some of their responses. For example, the other day I read about how kilts are making their way into more mainstream wardrobes. Not just traditional kilts, but…
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Organizing Electronic Notes
The following post on Edutopia presented some interesting ideas on some of the skills we need to teach students about note taking and perhaps more importantly, note keeping. Have a read of this Edutopia blog post.
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Google Classroom; Link to an Existing Assignment
Some of my colleagues have asked how they can make it so that a particular assignment they have posted on their Google Classroom Stream can become a “recurring” task. For example, you do not want to have to create a new assignment each week telling students to write in their journals. However, students often need…
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Adam Bellow on Doing More With Less
The fact of the matter is, technology has an ever increasing role in the education system. So I found Adam Bellow’s blog post on Edutopia to be quite an interesting read. The highlights from the blog post for me were: Make sure tech training is available on a continuous basis. That is part of the…
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My Shoulder Report
On the last day of school before I was to begin my summer holiday I went to the park with my kids. I was literally sitting on a park bench reading a book about a new type of computer I had just bought – a Pi-topCEED which is powered by a micro computer called a…
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Alice Keeler on Fixing Google Docs you Copy and Paste
Now that I have made the switch to using Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for most of my teacher-stuff and lesson plans, I no longer struggle with the “all the beautiful formatting I did in the Word doc got messed up!” That’s because when I want to write something or create an assignment, now I…
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Sushi Moto in Burnaby
Even if I have eaten sushi two or three days in a row, when Mom says, “Let’s go for sushi, I found a great a new place!” I listen. And that is how I found Sushi Moto, a new sushi gem in the burbs of Burnaby. My Mom and sister had already visited Sushi Moto…
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Lunch at Kiku Sushi
After completing a long fast before getting a blood test done, I needed food and I needed it fast. So when I came out of the lab building and saw Kiku Sushi, the place to break my fast was obvious. Not in the mood to waste time, I ordered the sashimi lunch box. Even if…
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10 Things Students Want to Know about Google Classroom
This post by Alice Keeler talks about the things that students want to know about Google Classroom. I would say that just as many teachers would also benefit from reading Keeler’s blog post. http://alicekeeler.com/2015/03/03/google-classroom-10-things-that-students-want-to-know/
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A Follow Up: the pi-topCEED
I did a follow up video (with better camera focus) on the new Pi-topCEED computer I recently received.