Jean-Baptiste's Ed Tech Blog – A French Teacher on the West Coast

Tech Tools

Miscellaneous apps for the classroom

By jbwagret December 3, 2019 December 3, 2019 0

Resources for digital storytelling or digital poetry: http://play.magneticpoetry.com/poem/original/kit http://www.piclits.com http://languageisavirus.com/visualpoetry Twine http://twinery.org Music apps: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/ (As a science teacher, can be useful to explain waves and oscillation) Virtual reality Google Earth VR Google resources for Education using VR: https://edu.google.com/products/vr-ar/expeditions/?modal_active=none Advantages of using VR in the classroom: Presence of …

Coding, EdTech

Coding in the classroom

By jbwagret November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 0

Scratch: Learn coding through blocks. Intuitive approach. Glitch: Learn to design a webpage. Twine: Design your own adventure. Nonlinearstories Resources: https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/best-coding-tools-for-high-school-students

Privacy & Safety

Data safety

By jbwagret November 22, 2019 November 19, 2019 0

Reminder for teachers : update your Facebook privacy settings so your info remains private, especially from your students. Netflix – The Great Hack. Documentary on Cambridge Analytica, and how some influence groups and think tanks use social media to influence elections and domestic policies of foreign countries. “Reply All” podcast …

Social Media

Podcasting in the classroom

By jbwagret November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 0

How to / why use them in the classroom? Get to know your students; Wide variety in content; Present our own learning in podcast form; Form: supports aural learning Suggestions from our teacher: Podcasts on Teaching and Learning Suggestion from my classmates: Podcasts We Love Why This American Life Wide …

Francophone Education, Social Media

Youtube for education (by a fellow French teacher):

By jbwagret November 19, 2019 November 19, 2019 0

Notes from an in-class presentation: youtube.com/education Has content that has been vetted classroom-appropriate. For learning languages, allows the students to hear the proper accent, and pay attention to different accents. Benefits of teaching with videos (short of physically travelling to the country): Immersion, Cognition, Motivation How to incorporate Youtube in …

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EdCamp – Choose your own conference !

By jbwagret October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 0

Today’s topic in our Ed Tech class: Ed Camp. It’s like a conference, but there is no specific topic. The attendees choose the topics they want to talk about. Want to share your knowledge on a subject, and leanr from your peers? Create a session! We tried it out in …

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Link to EDCI 336 website

By jbwagret October 29, 2019 October 29, 2019 0

Because I keep forgetting it, here is the link to our Ed Tech’s teacher website EDCI 336: Technology Innovation in Education Mike is a great teacher, go check it out!

Audio Editing, EdTech, Screen Capture, Video Editing

Video and audio editing

By jbwagret October 3, 2019 October 3, 2019 0

Rich McCue manages the University of Victoria Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons. He put together some straightforward tutorials to get started on audio editing and video editing. They are available under a Creative Commons licence: Introductory Workshops for Video Editing, Audio Editing, & Screen Capture

EdTech Inquiry, Intellectual Property

Copyright? Can I use this material in my blog or in my class?

By jbwagret September 28, 2019 September 28, 2019 3

Many materials are copyrighted. They cannot be used freely, for example in a blog post or in a classroom. There is some tolerance regarding the partial use of copyrighted material in such environments, but they are not always clear. They might leave room to interpretation, and you end up forgetting …

EdTech, Free Inquiry

Gender-specific toys for toddlers

By jbwagret September 28, 2019 September 28, 2019 0

Today, we’ll consider two experiments on the topic of gender and toys. One experiment focuses on the child’s behaviour, and the other focuses on the adult’s behaviour. And to add to the fun, one video is in English and one is in French! Let’s start with the children’s behaviours. This …