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"Doodle 4 Google Canada is a national contest inviting students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to redesign the logo for the Google.ca homepage for a day.* As Canada blows out a whole lot of candles for its 150th birthday this year, what better way to celebrate than by asking students to imagine what the next 150 years will look like? Google believes our youth hold the key to a bright future for Canada, and can't wait to see what their optimism, creativity and imagination give rise to. The winning doodle will be featured on the Google Canada homepage for 24 hours. The winning student will also receive a $10,000 university scholarship, a Google Chromebook, and a $10,000 technology award for their current school along with a trip to the final event on June 13, 2017."

Media Awareness Network - now MediaSmarts. 2012 Report

Learning programming using Python - from U Waterloo - great for beginners to programming.

"In the inclusive UDL classroom, accommodations are made to allow students multiple ways to share what they know and how they feel."

"If you've recently gotten an iPad or a set of iPads in your school and you're not sure what to do with them, here are four things you can do right away:"

"As Kristin Berbawy packed projects into her car, she lingered over one in particular. Two 3D-printed Makerbots with wire hooks-a pair of earrings. They matched the white braces on her teeth and the white strands in her hair. Her students had made them-as they had all the projects in her car-in their high school makerspace. She was proud of them. She was going to display their work to other teachers. Smack in the middle of AP exams, a growing group of teachers is pouring time, creativity and energy into activities for which there are no standardized tests: makerspaces. The movement is avowedly grassroots and candidly quirky, and its main gathering is the Maker Educator Convening in Oakland, CA, where Kristin Berbawy was headed with a trunkload of laser cut wood and 3D printed objects. "

GAfE admin needs to sign up for early adopter program. Took us about 2 weeks to be white listed. My first site: https://sites.google.com/learners.sjr.mb.ca/start

Copyright Matters - new 4th Edition Some Key Questions and Answers for Teachers

"I've included links to some of the resources I've created for incorporating coding into the classroom. The resources in the last column show how a teacher might approach teaching a problem. Please contact me if you have any questions. Lisa Floyd (lisafloyd834@gmail.com, @lisaannefloyd on Twitter)"

"New evidence suggests schools should stop fighting technological tide and find ways to incorporate cellphones into schools"

"The most popular post I've ever written is 13 Ways to use iMovie in the Classroom, having reached thousands of readers in the first day. I've been meaning to follow it up ever since, and now I finally have created a short video introduction to using iMovie on the iPad."

"If you've ever made a video in iMovie, a song in Garageband, a book in Book Creator, (or made anything really) on an iPad, than you know the pain of getting that product off of the iPad. That's why I've made this video (below) to teach you how to pull files off of the iPad, and how to put it back on to the iPad, i"

"A very techno-skilled young teacher, Lindsay, was in a session with me on Friday. I could tell pretty quickly that she is keen on learning and has a lot of iPad expertise. During a discussion on uses for Dragon Dictation (an app that converts voice to text), Lindsay shared the speak selection feature of iOS as a complimentary technology. Great! I had never thought of tying dragon dictation to the voice over feature of the iPad before to give you a fully integrated speech-to-text-to-speech again experience."