Voyage Coetail

Before Coetail, I was a happy lurker, connected to a lot of social networks. I used them to find information, to stay in the loop. I was following people with the same interests as mine. Tom Whitby explained in Okay, I’m connected now what?  For me a connected educator is one who uses technology and social media to personalize learning for both personal and professional growth. The big picture in being a connected educator is the idea that you as the educator are first connected to the general flow of information, and then secondly, focused on specific connections to drill down to the detailed needs specific to you, or your students’ needs. [caption id="attachment_473" align="aligncenter" width="300"] flickr photo by Jurgen Appelo https://flickr.com/photos/jurgenappelo/6797252840 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license[/caption] When first joining the Coetail community, my only preoccupation was to read as much as possible, to write my blog posts a...

[caption id="attachment_455" align="aligncenter" width="300"] flickr photo by mrsdkrebs https://flickr.com/photos/mrsdkrebs/6900256573 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license[/caption] Digital story telling and blogging with my students were until recently my main ideas for my final project. But I wanted to use my final project to have my students really being creative. While I was wondering how I could have it worked out, I went to #Learning 2 Europe. Since then I have two bright ideas that I equally like. Genius Hour in French Creating a game with Scratch and Makey Makey : the upper primary grade would create it to the early years to play. I’d like them to create a “Operation” like as they both know, learn or will learn vocabulary about the body. As I’m still discovering Scratch, I decided to give up on the latter to focus on the Genius Hour. Here is my UBD planner. Why do you think this unit is a good possibility for my course 5 project ? ...