Reading Buddies? Sure! Coding Buddies? You bet!
Originally posted on ECOO. During the Hour of Code, my students had opportunity to explore two apps: Scratch Jr and Hopscotch. They had never coded before in school, and most had never coded outside of…
TLLP Friends! Here is the slide deck!
Our slide deck is from our PD sessions and has lots of info and links to resources. Enjoy! You may have to click the title to get the link!
Beyond the TLLP–Our Next Steps
One of the wonderful things about the TLLP (and there are truly many) is that participants are encouraged to continue their learning. Because we started our project later than intended (November instead of September), we…
Our Learning–Final Report Submission
To honour true transparency, here is our final report that we submitted to our Director of Education and to the TLLP team.
Intermediate Stop Motion Animations
I was incredibly impressed by most of the products from our stop motion unit. The creativity was incredible, and the variety of media used to create them was surprising. Students used Stop Motion Studio plus Lego,…
The Slide Deck to Our PD Session
We thank all that were able to come out to our PD session on Making and Design Thinking. For those that couldn’t attend, here’s the slide deck. If you have any questions or if you’d…
Creating Digitally
Throughout this project, we are finding that hands on experiences are engaging and can result in deep learning experiences and perseverance. But these hands on experiences don’t have to create something concrete and tangible. We…
ESL students and the power of making
TLLPs are about engaging and sound instruction, but the underlying goal is to facilitate and share teacher learning. Our goals for this project are to enhance our learning about makerspace and design process, but there are…
Kinder Makerspace
Something great is happening at Queen Victoria…..the kindergarten staff is creating a makerspace! And although this was not part of our original TLLP proposal, we’ve tried to support it by sharing resources and using release time to…
Some Online Makerspace Resources
Teaching the Design Process in Makerspaces An Educator’s Guide to the “Four Cs”–Preparing 21st Century Students for a Global Society 15 Ideas To Go Beyond Makers Space… Building a Makers Culture http://www.makereducation.com/ Institute of Design at…