It was an honour to be part of the WRDSB SMARTBoard Conference in Waterloo, Ontario on May 15, 2010. Here are the files from the sessions: SMART Notebook File from the keynote presentation. SMART Notebook File (including participant feedback) for SMART Notebook Math Here is a photo of Harry setting the context for the day:
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SMART Notebook Math Tools
Files from the today’s (March 6th, 2010) SMART Notebook Math Tools session (complete with participants sticky note comments) in Toronto, Ontario. http://tinyurl.com/hazzardSMARTmath1 http://tinyurl.com/hazzardSMARTmath2 Below are a few example of participant connects and concerns as they constructed their understanding of this tool’s application to their classroom / context.
Field Guide for Change Agents
This past weekend I was at Educon 2.2 and have the opportunity to present two sessions. One of the sessions was with Rodd Lucier. During our planning for this session Rodd and I decided to plan a session that would require participants to collaboratively write a document. To do this we used Google Docs’ presentation [...]
Join Us Online For Educon 2.2
This weekend Educon 2.2 is being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Please participate with us, online, for the following sessions that I am co-facilitating (aka playing sidekick). Here is the schedule: 10:00 am – 11:30 am (Eastern Time) on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 Teaching Big Ideas to 21st Century Learners through collaboration, innovation, and differentiation (follow this link [...]
Finding the Right Partner: Cross-Classroom Collaboration @ ECOO 2009
The following is my presentation from ECOO 2009. How can you extend your classroom to include professional collaboration that links classroom for student projects? Participants will explore: – Finding the right partner based on your professional comforts – Matching your comforts to project ideas – Tools that enable a collaboration project with the right partnership [...]
Media Literacy: A Red Herring or Students as Producers
This is my presentation to the MECY & ManACE Media Literacy Event on November 2nd, 2009.
Cyber Bullying: Ramifications for Ontario Principals
Recently I have posted a few presentations from my Principal’s Qualfication Program, Part 1 course. This presentation examines the legal ramifications of cyber bullying: student to student, and student to teacher. The safe schools section of the Education Act in Ontario, Canada is the lens through which certain cases are viewed. The seminal case, Killion [...]
Teacher2Teacher Conference
The past two days are full of great conversations and sessions at the Teacher2Teacher Conference in Bow Island, Alberta, Canada. There are hundreds of teachers in this place that reminds me of home (beans are a key agricultural product in both). Here are the links to the files (in SMART Notebook Format) from my sessions: [...]
Leading With Kindness
What do leaders worship? Popularity? Adjulation from superiors? Rules? Structures? This is a presentation that delves into the concept of leading with kindess. These concepts draw heavily from others, such as Greenleaf’s Servent Leadership, but are refreshing as push overs are told to grow a back bone and develop the capacities of people within their [...]
Finding Content that Click with SMARTBoards or ‘Becoming a Superhero’
This presentation was shared in Marshall, Minnesota on October 16th. This session focused on the following. How can you efficiently build a stream of content to enhance your classroom environment? How can you find engaging content without sacrificing all your time? Participants will explore: • Online tools for reading streams of content • Streams and [...]
