Getting GIPHY


  • March 29, 2022
    4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

GIFs: Perhaps you’ve seen them on your social media feeds. Or maybe they’ve popped up in your text messages. Let’s explore the many ways we can capitalize on a strategic use of GIFs in our classrooms and programs. From reading to “writing” our own, we will explore quick and easy tools to have you creating (more…)

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Integrating media literacy into the secondary English classroom


  • May 21, 2020
    4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Using a Grade 10 English narrative unit as an example, we’ll explore how teachers might use online tools to deliver a media-literacy-integrated approach to the English curriculum? Using students’ prior knowledge and Google apps, teachers can manage a narrative unit that helps students understand and appreciate story codes and conventions and the roles that stories play in their lives. (more…)

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New Literacies for Digital Learners


  • May 12, 2020
    4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

It’s time to re-imagine how we teach literacy in our digital world! Join me in conversation to explore how we teach elementary students to read and write from our remote distance learning environments. Engage in the process of experiential learning by experimenting with digital content in real time. Apply the skills and competencies you already (more…)

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Choose Your Own Adventure


  • May 5, 2020
    4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Harness the power of Google Slides by developing the ability to create a Choose Your Own Adventure story that focusses specifically on delivering a lesson to your students at home. Give your students the power of choice as they navigate a story you’ve created with multiple choices and endings! Through this lesson, learn how you (more…)

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