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Blogging about WordPress
Joan urged me to blog about my experiences blogging with WordPress, so here I go… One of the things I would like on my WordPress weblog is a “login” link at the top of the right sidebar at http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/blog/nobuko so that I can just go to my blog directly, rather than go to http://grail.oise.utoronto.ca/grail first…
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SMARTBoard research
The SMARTBoard research that I’ve been working on with Cathi and John is progressing rapidly! So far, we’ve surveyed the teacher candidates to get a sense of their technological background, skills, and attitudes toward technology infusion; and have offered support for three teacher candidate-associate teacher pairs as they planned math and science lessons that they…
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WordPress in GRAIL
Hedieh and I were chatting in the lab about how we find that we don’t seem to blog as much as we used to since our blogs migrated from Movable Type and Wendy’s aggregator into the new GRAIL environment. Granted, I’ve been preoccupied lately with my thesis research, EILP project work, TEPA work, and settling…
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E-Learn 2007
Here is my powerpoint presentation for E-Learn 2007 in Quebec City next week: http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~nfujita/Elearn07.ppt Sorry about this, I couldn’t figure out how to change my permissions in WordPress so I could upload the powerpoint file!
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SMART Ideas – infusing IWBs through collaboration
Last month, I blogged about how I will be supporting Cathi and John infuse interactive whiteboards (IWBs) into their preservice teaching this year. Because it is a self-study, we are documenting the pedagogical decisions we make as we go along. I’m going to try to use this blog to record what I’m working on. From…
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Hello world! (and thanks Joan:)
Joan has been working nights migrating the GRAIL Blogs from the old Movable Type to the new WordPress setup! I’m playing around with WordPress, and so far so good. It was easy to import my entries from before into WordPress following Joan’s directions. When composing an entry, I like that I can switch from the…
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Design-Based Research
I have blogged about design-based research (aka design experiments or design research) before, but I thought I’d share some new resources that I’ve come across from reading an entry from U of M’s Learning Technologies Centre Research Blog last month. First, there’s a website for a tutorial that was held at ED-MEDIA 2007 that provides…
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Interactive Whiteboard in Teacher Education
After a year off from doing any teaching, this September I’ll be working as a program assistant for the elementary teacher education seminar and School and Society courses in the Midtown option in the OISE’s one-year initial teacher education program. I’m pretty excited to be working with Cathi and John, coordinators of the Midtown option.…
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Congratulations Clare!
The GRAIL research group wanted to congratulate Clare on successfully completing her tenure process! Yay!!! To celebrate, Kim baked a special chocolate-vanilla cake:) We all got a piece…yum! and we got to surprise Clare, too! Well, Wendy and I don’t know about the surprise part, I think Clare was on to us 😉
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Conferences and Community
I just got back from the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) Annual Conference at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK. What a great conference! Leading up to the conference, I was a bit reluctant about disrupting my thesis writing schedule, but once I was there, I was thrilled to meet and…