Week 3: Summary of Best Practices in Distributed Learning – A Look at Needs in a Variety of Contexts.  Where to from here? What a fantastic learning exercise!  I recently returned to the third week in our course to develop a summary of the main themes from that week- best practices in DL, and to […]

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Nic on November 21, 2016

As term one approaches its end and I meet daily with students and parents to review their progress and generate report cards, I am plagued with an uncomfortable feeling associated with the “power” of assessment.  I have stated clearly to my families that, together, we are generating the report card, and for the first time […]

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Nic on November 1, 2016

Plagiarism Lesson Objectives:   Students will understand the definition of plagiarism with a focus on the use of online resources Students will understand and be able to share how and when they can use the works of others Students will practice summarizing main idea and details Students will practice referencing online works Grade level: 5-7 […]

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