I have been looking a lot at how we could setup an Eportfolio using WordPress a short post on why.

In 2010 I had students create a portfolio using WordPress. Earlier this week I resurrected one of the blogs created by Justine so the grade seven team had an example of what a blog based [...]

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Blogging Cycle Again

On December 12, 2011 By

I wrote before about my thoughts on blogging, Diigo and Zotero. I created a cycle that I wanted the kids to go through with their blogging (I like mind maps). The cycle is fairly simple, students are given a reading, they use Diigo to mark up the document to create sticky notes and [...]

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Blog Template Trial

On December 11, 2011 By

The grade seven blog template is basically done. I had all the grade seven students add themselves to the blog so I could create link lists. This part of the process should be automated as some of the students had difficulty

adding their blog URL and name correctly to the sidebar widget. If the ICT office [...]

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Programming Classes

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Over the years I have been put into situations where I have had to teach programming. I started with Basic then Pascal, Karrell, AP C++ and on to Java mainly at the High School level. I’ve always enjoyed programming and have also thought that Middle School students would enjoy making the computer do something instead of [...]

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