Bring the World to Your Classroom

Bring the World to Your Classroom Newspapers are an invaluable teaching tool and provide the most current source of information and real life lessons to students of all ages.   A "living textbook" for schools. Through the generous donations of our readers, the E paper will be made available to your classroom for the 2014/2015 school year. Free of Charge ! Now you can have the Province E paper delivered to your classrooms, this format will be an exact replica of the printed editions available to schools. Sections and supplements are laid out just as in the print edition, but complemented by a variety of digital tools which enhance the printed newspaper's look and feel.   Please visit theprovince.com/nie to order.

Google gives students unlimited cloud storage

by Chris Velazco | @chrisvelazco | September 30th 2014 at 12:21 pm

Google's invasion of our classrooms (and its war on paper) continues unabated. Back in August in the search giant released an online education tool for teachers who wanted to digitally manage their classes, and now it's launched an improved version of Google Drive that's free for folks toiling away in academia. The company's new Drive for Education is basically the same thing as its enterprise-based Drive for Work, which means you're looking at unlimited storage space (albeit with a 5TB file size limit) and access to Google Vault for message archiving.

To put that in perspective, Google's education users only used to get 30GB of free space -- that's more than enough for most, but dropping storage costs mean Google is trying to replace your paper-laden bookbag with the cloud. Itching for your turn to try the improved Drive? If your school is a current Google Apps for Education user, you'll see the unlimited space appear over the next few weeks... though you'll have to wait a bit for some of the other bells and whistles to go live. Vault, for instance, is second on the list of priorities after making sure everyone gets their unlimited storage, and auditing support (yawn) is due to come sometime after that.

Top 15 Twitter #Education Hashtags

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Alex Beck

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Twitter’s hashtag feature is one of the easiest ways to connect with other Twitter users on a shared topic. Using a Twitter hashtag aggregates any tweet containing that hashtag into a searchable and easy to follow list. Generally, users add a hashtag to a tweet to direct it towards certain searches and interests, regardless of time, but combining hashtags with a scheduled time to use them creates a sort of chat room for anyone tweeting.

Below is a list of our top 15 hashtags for educators.

Hashtags for Shared Topics

#blendedlearning: Blended Learning
#BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
#commoncore: Common Core Standard
#cybersafety: Cyber Safety
#DigCit: Digital Citizenship
#education: General Education
#edtech: Education Technology
#elearning: E-Learning
#flipclass: Flipped Classroom
#K12:  K-12 Education

Hashtags for Group Chats

#blendchat: Blended Learning
#cpchat:  Connected Principals
#edchat: General Education Chat
#educhat: General Education Chat
#lrnchat: General Education Chat

Physics 12, Vancouver College - Subject: 32 cm x 32 cm x 10 cm boxes for donation by physics 12's

My physics 12 students have recently finished a design project - see the photos below.  They learned a lot about proper measurement and appropriate tool/materials use, which will serve them well in the more difficult projects to come.  The tool sets were provided last year by Parents Association special projects funding, which I am quite grateful for.

Regards,

Ben Kim
Physics instructor

Vancouver College

Plagiarism doesn't have to be such a grey area

@BTaggartED: Plagiarism doesn't have to be such a grey area. Here is a helpful and clear guide. http://t.co/jAanVdh0qW #bclearns #vclearns #cisva

11 Simple Ways To Start Using Technology In Your Classroom by Jeff Dunn

If you’re on the education technology fence, you probably can’t decide which device or app is the best one to really use. You aren’t sure if you want to jump into the edtech pool with Evernote, Moodle, an iPad, a Chromebook, or some other hot new product or service. That’s because there are an overwhelmingly large number of options out there. Seriously. Take a gander at the Apple iTunes App Store and click on the education category after you’re done on Edudemic. It’s an almost limitless number of apps that could potentially help you.

And that’s just the apps. There are so many more resources out there worth taking a look at. But you’re a busy teacher and you barely have time to use your own iPad to play a quick round of Angry Birds.

What if there was some sort of time-saving handy visual that could help you dream up nearly a dozen new ways to use technology in your classroom? That’s exactly what you’ve got with this fabulous graphic below. It’s designed by the folks at Really Good Stuff to be simple to read, understand, and implement.

@edutopia: Which is why we should put our heads together more. :) http://t.co/8rDNM8gFRN

http://t.co/8rDNM8gFRN