As part of our Connected Learning Community, we are highlighting the importance of balance, safety and responsible behavior online (generally called “Digital Citizenship“). One of the ways that we are bringing attention to these ideas is through our new Digital Citizenship Week, taking place 16 – 20 April. Each day will have a theme: Monday: Balance [...]

category: 1:1, Digital Citizenship    

Well done MS Tutors! All tutor groups now have their own assessment calendar on Google Calendars, and they’ve been shared with all of the appropriate teachers. Our goals for the calendars are: A quick overview of what major assignments students have at a glance. Collaboration between teachers when assigning major tasks. (Here’s how to add [...]

category: Google Apps    

Blogs are a great way to encourage students to share their work, and to reflect on their learning. All students in grade 6 are regularly using their blogs this way, and should be able to do so in other classes very easily. However, there are a few tricks that can make reflective blogging more effective [...]

category: The Learning Hub     tags: reflection

With the recent upgrade on our campus blog site we now have access to an awesome new feature: custom menus. This will allow you to add a menu bar to any blog theme (even if it doesn’t have one already), and you can customize the menu to include any features you want, including: Pages Categories [...]

category: The Learning Hub     tags: blogs, custom, menu

YIS was well represented at the Learning 2.011 Conference Conference in Shanghai! We were very fortunate to have Zoe, Elif, Rebekah, Brian, Trevor and Kim at the conference, sharing the fantastic work that we’re doing here and learning from others. Archive of all the tweets from the conference. Here are a few highlights from the conference [...]

category: Professional Development