#BIT15Reads
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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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#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.
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Humble beginnings: launching #BIT15Reads
The first steps of #BIT15Reads Book Club In 2014, a bold man took on the daunting task of discussing a book at an educational technology conference. That session catapulted our quest for deeper meaning and so we bring to you the Bring IT Together book club (#BIT15Reads) The aim of the book club is to deepen…