Technology and Instruction for Prairie South

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Welcome to our weblog. This is where we’ll have lots of good stuff.

I placed this in edublogs by finding the url of the flash file. In my case it was, https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/slideshare/ssplayer.swf. Use the Flash insert button on your tool bar (the silver and blue icon with the f in it.

I’ve installed Office 2007 and am quite liking it. OneNote is a program that although is part of the older Office Suites, is new to me. Tim Eirich has shown me some of its features. It’s great for organizing all your files from documents, video, audio, websites, web clippings and more. This is how the product is promoted:

Gather all your information in one place, find what you need fast, and work from the same page with others

I’ll be playing with this more in the future…stay tuned.

Photo”OneNoteSecretTrail” by AuburnMarshes

We have a number of our schools who have SmartBoards. I believe that some are using them effectively and others are struggling with using them well. Lack of portability is one issue but there are others. Here is a resource put together by a pair of teachers from Manitoba that share in a podcast, various links and resources and ideas for using SmartBoards.

Now for something very exciting regarding the potential of SmartBoard technology, have a look at this video:

Today was day one in the PA PALM Pilot Project. Folks, this is exciting stuff. Giving a computer to every kid in a class has huge potential. The computer itself may not change much but combine that with great teaching and a learning environment where collaboration and social learning is encourage and that will create big change.

Here’s an example of how to add video to your blog.  

We had a great time blogging in Assiniboia. The people were enthusiastic and the food was great. We learned together and had some good fun.

Keep your eyes out for some great blogging from the south country!