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  • Open Educational Practices in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Environments

    For a full chapter about Open Educational Practices in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Environments, check out Chapter 38. Kind of like the image above, the chapter describes the potential of open educational practice is designing for expanding into global networked learning opportunities …. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324571471_Handbook_of_research_on_K-12_online_and_blended_learning_2nd_ed

  • Grade 10 Storytelling & Perspectives Learning Pathway – From Indigenous Lens

    The last learning pathway for my EdD research with grade 10 students is on Storytelling and Perspectives, from an Indigenous Lens. This is the link to the Trello board that we used as an “Open Learning Hub”: https://trello.com/b/sewK2OJC/stories-perspectives-grade-10

  • Butterflies and Open Learning

    Photo by David Clode on Unsplash Over the last few weeks I have been working with a variety of Indigenous Elders. Randy Bottle of the Blood tribe (Kainai First Nation), shared that butterflies are an important symbol in Blackfoot dreams. This was especially important to me because butterflies have been a common metaphor and symbol throughout my MALT,…

  • ERLC Literacy Thinking Strategies

    ERLC Literacy Thinking Strategies link: https://sites.google.com/erlc.ca/thinkingstrategies/2-anticipate/text-structures

  • RVS Digital Literacies Website

    RVS Digital Literacies Website: https://sites.google.com/rvschools.ab.ca/rvsdigitalliteracies/home

  • Published Blog Posts

    Published Blog Posts:   Building an Open Narrative With Open Learning  (International Literacy Association) Rethinking Literacy in 2017 RVS: Making learning Visible Blog Learning to Code is Learning to Learn (LEARN Blog) MOOCifying K-12: Relationships, Collaboration, Risk-Taking

  • #Gamifi-ED

    Presentation Description: It all started with an idea put out on twitter – “It’s Ironic that my tweets about creating hunger games online learning opportunity- is the way I feel about learning.” Lee Graham saw the tweet and started the #Gamifi-ED collaboration. Based on the Educurious “Hunger Games” module, we challenged ourselves to create an…

  • K-12 ABOER Awareness Project

    Project Overview For various reasons including costs, it is expected that the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) within K-12 is likely to take hold rapidly.  Educating in-service teachers through the Multiply K-12 OERpodcasts and video series thereby addresses an identified need of higher educational institutions and of the teaching profession.  But what are OER?  How…

  • #EDUC420 Issues in Teaching and Learning Presentations & Final Projects

    The Issues in Teaching and Learning Presentations can be found : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hGSjk5cz-SsqMQN7-eqe1yR1MazhFAeH Final Projects:    

  • Expanding K-12 Learning Environments OEP

    Building Futures Airdrie Class Blog: https://sites.google.com/view/buliding-futures/our-dig-life

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