Drugged Exhaustion

Some evenings I am so tired that I feel like someone has slipped a sedative into my after dinner tea. Tonight is one of those nights. As I try to catch up with my RSS feeds, my eyelids close for longer and longer times, until finally the nod of my head snaps me back to [...]

Be careful what you wish for! Slice of Life March 4

I’m always searching for new ways to entice students into reading. I’d heard about Shelf Talkers (from several places), and decided to try one last night.  I wrote an appealing blurb on an index card and taped it underneath the book I wanted to promote. If the shelf talker worked, the book would get signed [...]

Weekends are for Frittering – A Slice of Life – Day One

Weekends are always so fleeting. They arrive full of the promise of endless free hours, and suddenly Sunday night has arrived and I reflect not on what I have accomplished, but on all the things I haven’t. By Sunday night, I can count on having laundry I haven’t washed or folded, papers I haven’t marked, [...]

Library 2.0

After a vacation in Calgary to watch my son’s team compete in the Canadian Ultimate Championships, I’m back to the All Together Now learning. (My son is the one with the disc, beating the four person cup).
We’ve been asked to create a post about what Library 2.0 means to us personally.
For me, it just means [...]

Where’s Matt

Where’s Matt

Ultimate throw

Ultimate throw, originally uploaded by janicerobertson.

I love to fool around with Photoshop; expecially when I start with a picture I like. I took this during a Dirt practice, and I really like the effect of the spin filter. I think it is just enough to make the photo really interesting.

Wiki

I find the whole idea of group editing without ownership to your contribution to be an interesting one to wrap my head around.
When I have students work collaboratively, I’ll often ask the kids to each write in a different colour; it’s not as hard as it sounds because one of the four almost always has [...]

Favourite Podcasts

I’m a bit late getting to this, but my favourite podcasts are:
The One Minute How To – where individuals come on to the show, which is only about 2 -4 minutes long, and they tell you how to do something that they know very well, in one minute. The diversity of topics is up to [...]

Right Angle Reflection

This is almost embarassing to admit, but what the heck – here goes!
I’ve been a podcast listener for a long time now so I was pretty relaxed about our third assignment.
BUT… it has been a LONG time since I bothered to check out the podcast listings on iTunes, and there has been such an explosion [...]

Enchanted

“Magic is just technology that someone understands”
I don’t know where I read or heard that quote, but I can’t help but feel it sums up perfectly my thoughts. I am awestruck by some of the technological things I’m experiencing lately. I’m not talking just about the blog and the RSS that we’ve been using… I’m [...]