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Canadian School Libraries Journal
This week editor Derrick Grose and his team of editors released their inaugural edition of the Canadian School Libraries Journal. Derrick says: “This first issue of the Canadian School Library Journal reflects the exciting times in which we are working” and “the actual work being done in school libraries”. For those of you who don’t know,…
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Reluctant readers are readers too!
What is #MADPD? A whole day of learning by professional teachers who will share just 20 minutes each of something that has transformed their professional practice. My topic is gathering resources for reluctant readers. Here’s a link to my Scoop.It on this topic: http://www.scoop.it/t/resources-for-reluctant-reader?nosug=1 Resources:
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The Orange Grove by Larry Tremblay
The Orange Grove: A Novel by Larry Tremblay My rating: 4 of 5 stars This little book (just 157 pages) is not for the faint of heart and is not a light read. It spans the life of Amed, who makes the horrible choice to swap places with his brother as a child, rather than…
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Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame
Dan vs. Nature by Don Calame My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is a light read but darker than Don Calame‘s previous works. Dan and his Mom’s fiance venture into the wilderness with a motley crue of tag-alongs. Dan is intent on breaking the fiance until he starts to really struggle with the…
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The frontierland of secondary school eLearning: Conquering fear and fostering courage
This week I’m attending the inaugural CANeLearn symposium in Vancouver, BC. The session I’m presenting is a collaborative action research project that we had funded by the Ontario Teachers’ Federation. The session will show you the results so far of our action research project in improving student motivation. Through teaching strategies for increasing student curiosity,…
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Interview with John Vaillant
I had such a treat this week to interview author John Vaillant about the book that we are currently reading in TVO’s TeachOntario. The questions were developed in conjunction with the book club’s participants. Usually when I have interviewed people in the past, I have simply used Google Hangouts on Air and hit record. This…
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