I need an Ipad

iBooks not only speaks the selection but it can also highlight text in different colors and create notes. Great way to provide the tools for using reading strategies to electronic text.

Creating ePub books in apps like Pages, Creative Book Builder allows you to create your own texts for students.

This is a useful workshop for Special education teachers to learn more about digital technologies to support special needs students. Integrating technology into is an important aspect when supporting students in a special education classroom. Special education teachers develop students ICT capabilities through exposing students to adapt to new ways of doing things as technologies evolve (ACARA, 2013). Students learn to use ICT effectively and appropriately to access, create and communicate information and ideas, solve problems and work collaboratively, and in their lives beyond school. Consequently development of this capability is achieved through effectively engaging students in learning to make the most of the digital technologies available to them (ACARA, 2013)

Primary sources for world history!

I am absolutely loving Skype in the Classroom - there are hundreds of projects on there, and Skype works to help make the connection between people wanting to present to students and the classroom.  Very cool!

Links to famous museums from around the world with many interactive tours and galleries.  

A clever literacy station activity, that implements technology in the way of Ipads.  Very simple, suitable for younger and older students alike to practice their skills with a common found technology resources in classrooms today.

t’s an age-old saying, “Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.”

What separates good teachers from the excellent ones? The excellent ones are handing out fishing poles; creating a culture in the classroom of independence and self-reliance. These students don’t just recite facts or regurgitate information- they have learned how to learn. They know that if the answer isn’t in front of them, they have the tools to do the investigation and research.

So how do you cultivate a culture of “I can…” in your classroom?

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Here are a few of the online publications I have authored or contributed to! Click the links to download them for free. Feel free to distribute and share these resources with your staff, in your trainings, and so forth. I’m available to present online and offline about these various resources.

Article on Book Creator

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An excellent tool for creating differentiated texts

Unit IV - Non American

is sad to see how people just refer to it as "Africa" when every part has its own name. Even myself don't know many of them since they are irrelevant for the western people.

This interactive map does a great job of not only showing the sate of political struggles and military conflict within the whole of Africa. This shows the new countries many dissidents  and rebels wish to establish in order to give their people a cultural and ethnic home land. This give a good picture of simply how chaotic some parts of Africa truly are and how destabilized many regions are. 

Great site to show projection and changes in perception on maps.  

This mercator puzzle was especially interesting. It illustrated how various countries look on a mercator map compared to other maps.

Cool activity / puzzle that plays with projection and shows you a comparative view of the "true" size of countries compared to others 

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Blending

This article has a useful list of 10 strategies for making online learning work alongside face to face, or 'blended' learning.

http://abcdraw.com/blog/face-face-vs-online-tutoring/