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#BIT15Reads: Google hangout and making your reading visible
Today at 7:30 pm ET I’ll be hosting our second Google Hangout On Air so please join us if you’re able at: https://plus.google.com/events/cjq0v12mnjjivqrogee67tsebbo or watch the live videostream here: A few years ago now I worked with a team at my school in a Professional Learning Practice action research project where we learned how to…
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#BIT15Reads Flipboard of our reading
I want the book club to be as accessible as possible to every member. As of this moment, we have 63 members from Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and beyond to Jordan and New Zealand. This week I found an app on my iPad to replace my old aggregator Zite called Flipboard. An aggregator creates reading…
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#BIT15Reads Labour Day Weekend Google Hangout On Air
Testing testing! This is our first attempt at meeting face-to-face….online! Using Google Hangouts on Air this is supposed to let me: talk to some of my favourite #BIT15Reads members livestream our discussion record the event for later playback via YouTube Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time, because we’re going to try to…
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Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Rachel Hartman takes us further down the rabbit hole in Shadow Scale as the political game between humans, dragons and the world in between. Our deeply mysterious protagonist, Seraphina, gets caught up in the brewing wars and must learn to master her own telepathic…
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#BIT15Reads: Motivating and Retaining Online Students by Rosemary Lehman and Simone Conceicao
Motivating and Retaining Online Students: Research-Based Strategies That Work by Rosemary M. Lehman My rating: 5 of 5 stars This little book packs a whallop in terms of professional development for online teachers. As a grade 12 online English teacher, and a teacher-librarian, I found Lehman and Conceicao’s research to be precisely focused on my…
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#BIT15Reads: Joining the club and choosing a book
The reason I chose it for our book club is because of my two goals for the #BIT15Reads book club: community and longevity.