One of my favourite sessions that is held at the CSTA Conference is "Nifty Assignments". Nifty Assignments is a project to gather and distribute great assignment ideas and their materials by K-12 CS teachers for K-12 CS teachers. Each year a few assignments are showcased by the authors at the Nifty Assignments session held at the annual CSTA conference. It is intended … Continue reading Nifty
I've heard many people talk about the difference between "Learning to Code" and "Coding to Learn". In many cases, it's just a cute little expression and the different between the two really isn't fleshed out. At the CSTA Conference, I had a really good opportunity to see the difference in action - although it wasn't … Continue reading Coding to learn
And this version appears on Saturday. Friday was a travel day for me and I figured that I'd get time when I returned home to write the post. But, we were on the tarmac at Sky Harbour Airport and that sure takes the energy out of you. Plus, I was in the second to last … Continue reading This Week in Ontario Edublogs
According to WordPress' numbering scheme for marking duplicate titles, this is the 365th or so blog post with this title. There are a few more that ended up being typos and ended up being posted "The Week in Ontario Edublogs"! D'oh! The toughest part of this Friday routine is writing something original to open the … Continue reading This Week in Ontario Edublogs
Welcome to the last TWIOE in June and the school year. As always, there is some inspirational content written by Ontario Educators. Perhaps you'll be inspired to start or re-start your own blog this summer if you're not already a regular writer? Rethinking End of Year Countdowns File this post from Laura Bottrell on the … Continue reading This Week in Ontario Edublogs
The "I" in ISTE stands for International but it isn't necessarily Ontario friendly in terms of its timing! Schools are still in session in Ontario so, for the large part, the only Ontarians that are in attendance in Philadelphia are centrally assigned people and exhibitors. So, the next best thing is to follow the hashtag … Continue reading ISTE 2019 Resources
It's been a strange week. Stephen Hurley was on assignment on Wednesday so we didn't have a chance to do our radio show. But, the blog goes on! Check out these terrific posts from Ontario Edubloggers. Evaluating e-learning From Deborah Weston, a summary from her perspective about the proposed eLearning required for graduation from seconday … Continue reading This Week in Ontario Edublogs
