Ressources encyclopédiques

Quelle encyclopédie préfères-tu?

In another of our series of French Immersion Teacher-Librarian workshops, we looked at the various French encyclopedia materials we subscribe to. We also spent some time talking about jump-page creation and gave some suggestions about how to present "image sets".

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BCTLA Webinar presentation Feb 2015

Using EBSCO mags to differentiate
In a recent BCTLA webinar, I shared how EBSCO magazines can support educators in their classroom. I point to a very subset of the complete magazine database that is perfect for the K-12 system. Many of the Scholastic titles can help the teacher create diffentiated text sets, and there are a handful of French titles that will delight students in FSL/FIM. The link (above) takes you the slides from the webinar (no audio, unfortunately) and if you open the speaker's notes (by clicking on the cog wheel), you will be able to follow the gist of the presentation.

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Learn360 - what is it?

A streaming service for teachers
Learn more about the content Learn360 can offer to your teaching.

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La musique dans la classe

An overview of French music resources
Music is essential to the study of language and culture. To fully appreciate French, it is important for students to be exposed to the rich world of French music, in particular the unique francophone musical tradition of Canada  (Québécois, Acadian, Métis, and French Aboriginal music and musicians.)

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Fresh Apps to explore

Some fun tech tools to use in your class
McRoberts invited me to come and share some of the engaging and useful apps and sites I've come across in my travels. Some help check students' learning, others have a subject specific focus. Some are iOS only, others work on any device. Some promote collaboration, others are a great reference. Hopefully, everyone finds at least "one new thing."

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Making the most of your eResources

Sea-to-Sky TLs explore ERAC bundles
Recently, I had the pleasure of working with teacher-librarians in District 48. We talked about their vision for library programs and explored how to promote and better use the many resources they have at their disposal.

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How Tweet it is!

Build your PLN
I recently presented a workshop on using Twitter for teachers. This is a adaptation of a previous session for TLs and introduces teachers to the basics, as well as how they might use this platform to build a personal learning network. (Thanks Lisa for the original template.)

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Transforming Curriculum & Assessment

New directions in curriculum in BC
A workshop presented in conjunction with members of the Learning Services Department to teachers and administrators.

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RTLA 2014 - Fall conference

At the heart of Student Learning
While we had a slow start this year because of job action, the RTLA mini-conference was a big success. It was a great opportunity to network and encourage new TLs.

Our video Keynote was taken from a WLMA advocacy video. We set pro-D priorities for the year, and discussed plagiarism (Remix Culture), Twitter (Explore using Twitter to build your PLN) and looked a some fun webtools:

1. mapFrappe
2. QR code "go cards" (goo.gl qrstuff goqr.me)
3. Lingro: Instant word check
4. AWW  webapp.
5. Webpath Express
6. BigHugeLabs

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Krashen Redux*

Vancouver Teacher-Librarians mini-conference
A facilitated viewing of a video presentation by Stephen Krashen.

The BIO: Stephen Krashen is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California. He is a linguist, educational researcher, and activist, and self-professed "grammar wonk", has published more than 350 papers and books, and works in the fields of L2 acquisition, neurolinguistics, bilingual education, and reading. Krashen promotes the use of free voluntary reading during second-language acquisition, which he says "is the most powerful tool we have in language education, first and second."

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