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Gary Ball

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    Research company looking at virtual worlds and 3D Gaming
Patricia Cone

The Atlas of Canada - Lesson Description - Physical Systems, Here and There - 1 views

  • Explore Our Maps » Environment » Ecology » Ecological Framework » Terrestrial Ecozones Map.
  • On the Terrestrial Ecozones map, the researchers click Get Info from Map and then on each province. The recorder writes down the ecozone name and physiography on the outline map of Canada.
  • to help them decide if the ecozone falls into a category of polar, grasslands, rainforest or forest if the answer is not obvious.
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  • Students create a master map that indicates where the polar, grassland, rainforest or forest regions are in Canada. They can indicate which parts represent the regions using illustrations or textually. They can use an overhead projector to make a large wall map of Canada. They should draw symbols that represent polar, grassland, desert, rainforest or forested regions.
  • Student groups are assigned a region (polar, grassland, desert, rainforest or forest). Each group uses electronic or non-electronic sources to find another country that has an example of that region, for example, the polar region of Norway, Russia or the African Savannah. They can begin research in the Atlas’ Learning Resources Section and select Other Online Atlases.
  • outline master map of the world.
  • examples of polar, desert, grassland, rainforests and major forests are globally.
Donna DesRoches

Reputation on the line; Before posting those wild party photos on Facebook, keep in min... - 0 views

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    Star Phoenix - (available in Canadian Newstand database) According to the University of Victoria political science PhD candidate and digital media researcher, students -- especially those on the verge of graduating and heading out into the working world -- should be aware of their digital reputation. According to Norah McRae, executive director of UVic's Co-operative Education Program and Career Services, there aren't any statistics that show exactly what percentage of employers will Google
Donna DesRoches

Assessment & Technology | Assessment for Learning - 0 views

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    video with Anne Davies demonstrating the research that "technology does enhance modern assessment strategies in fact, becoming part of the learning cycle itself."
Donna DesRoches

Presentations in the High School English Classroom - 0 views

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    What if the presentation was a story, a journey, an in-depth look into some aspect of a book, a time period as told through images and the research of the storyteller. What if the preperation of making the presentation was about learning? What if it was about crafting a story and understanding a topic to the point where you could stand and without notes, without bulletpoints tell your story. 
Donna DesRoches

A Better Safety Net: It's time to get smart about online safety - 11/1/2009 - School Li... - 0 views

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    Online safety must be relevant to youth, or we're talking to ourselves. It must accommodate the growing body of research on youth risk and what kids themselves say about how they use digital media, and it must be respectful-of both young people and the new media conditions they're ably exploiting.
Donna DesRoches

Crimes Against Children Research Center - 1 views

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    The publicity about online "predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
Donna DesRoches

Welcome to PrimaryAccess - 0 views

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    PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
Donna DesRoches

If We Didn't Have the Schools We Have Today, Would We Create the Schools We Have Today? - 0 views

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    worth reading - noting and adding to the annotations on the page
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