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April 2016 5 Events

Wednesday, April 06

Facilitating Rich Discussions in Brightspace (D2L)

Brightspace by D2L is a learning management system available to all educators and students in Ontario’s publicly-funded schools. The discussion tool within Brightspace is a very robust tool for supporting effective online discussions to supplement any face-to-face class. Participants will explore how to record audio and embed and share media through online discussions. In addition to the …

Monday, April 18

Creative Differentiation in the Math Classroom using Google Apps for Education (GAFE)

Today’s classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse with combined grades, ESL, and integrated classrooms. Math problem solving is often the biggest barrier for our students. As an educator, meeting the needs of every individual child is difficult and challenging. GAFE provides many wonderful tools that help educators to face these challenges head-on. Join colleagues in a …

Wednesday, April 20

Games-based Learning in Math

This session explores the popular tools Kahoot and Prodigy to support and enhance learning in math. Kahoot is a quiz style game in which kids connect to a central computer using their device and partake in multiple choice quizzes that track their performance. Prodigy is a role playing fantasy game in which students must solve …

Thursday, April 21

Working With Two-Variable Relationships

Join colleagues and engage in multiple 3 Act Math Tasks using specific real world examples related to two-variable relationships, scatter plots, distance-time and motion-time graphs. During this webinar, prepare to have your curiosity sparked as you will solve junior/intermediate math problems with ease and participating in a fun consolidation of these often “not-so-fun” topics. Upon …

Monday, April 25

Creating Digital Stories using iPad and iPhone Apps

Do you have iPads and iPhones in your classrooms? Are you interested in discovering how to engage students in learning and achieving some assessment goals? Using some amazing Apps, you can learn the basics of creating digital stories, newscasts, personal narratives, using green screen techniques and simple animations. This session will provide participants with man …