Week+7

__Week 2 of Presentations__ Immigration in a Canadian context Grade 9 applied Geography Pushed out of south Africa, pulled into Canada (factors of immigration) [] gcast.com - Website to create free podcasts (even with your cellphone)
 * Alex Windsor & Sejal Mairsuria**

Google books and worldcat.org are used to complete challenges – very well done. I had a lot of fun doing this. http://ped3119.wikispaces.com/WebQuest+Part+1
 * Alex M. And Brad**

Grade 9 science Periodic Table Some technical issues, important to remember that when using it in your real class with students who are not as understanding this can kill a lesson. Very well done though. Lots of fun overall. http://ped3119-dp-hg-chemistrylesson.wikispaces.com/Manganese - The link I made, very fun to do as well. Great project!
 * Dane and Helen**

http://stevevped3119.wikispaces.com/Week+7 - Wikispace for the lesson. Comic Life used to create graphic pages, [] Probably my favourite presentation, had lots of fun using Comic Life.
 * Steve and Karen**


 * Taylor, Natasha and Kristen**

Podcast assignment using Diamante, a really cool site for making poems. Had fun with this as well.


 * Laura and Andrea**

Nutrition lesson Opened with exercise as a hook and a candy that was its equivalent. Let me tell you, not worth a Hershey's kiss for a full minute of jumping jacks! The assignment was used to count food intake and energy output using a food diary. Find there site below.

http://nutritionassignment.wikispaces.com/

Math Assignment using a calculator I didn't really understand this assignment. Steve created podcasts and asked students to use a calculator to do math problems. There was certainly a lot of effort put in, but I didn't find any of the lesson asked students to incorporate technology. It was well delivered though and fun to do.
 * Steve and Daljitt**


 * Stephanie and Jennifer**

French – New France History Use PHOTOSTORY, microphones and headsets prepared which was fun -we were actually able to do the assignment. I particularly liked how they opened in French, it was refreshing to remember how large of a role that French plays in the school. Overall a great lesson!

The class discussion today carried a lot from our readings, we talked about **B-learning** (blended) **and E-learning.** E-learning is a huge growth factor of schools today, so many students are opting for E-learning and **doing school on their own time** (**asynchronous**) which is great because our **graduation rates are increasing**! There is also **syncronous** which actually has students sign in and be online as the teacher. Next was the idea of Blearning which was an interesting one that I hadn't heard of until Bruce mentioned it. It is a mixture of traditional classroom learning and Elearning. It sounds very promising though not as widespread yet.


 * Desire to learn** – “learning management system” (**LMS**) purchased by the Ministry of Education.

We discussed using **Skype** **in the classroom,** I was skeptical at first but realized how many possibilities there were to using it, for example, to talk to other schools or classrooms, penpals, combined classes, guest speakers, they are virtually endless!