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    

Thanks to Mr. Wood and Elliott for passing this on.

category: Inspiration    

Some great summer PD opportunities (free & online so you can access from anywhere!): What Will You Learn this Summer? 26 Professional Development Resources by Shelly Terrell And some ideas that you might be interested in implementing next year: Cut your marking by a third (using screencasting) by Martin Jorgensen

category: Professional Development