Invited Lectures
Twitter 101
Recently, I was invited to deliver a presentation in a community service-learning graduate course I am taking, titled 'Levering Twitter to Reach a Wider Audience'. You can find the Google Slides presentation under the 'Resources' tab of this blog! It provides a good overview of all of the Twitter basics, including breaking down 'Twitter Lingo' and steps for getting yourself start on Twitter by creating and starting to set-up a 'Twitter handle' (profile!).
*Watch for a 'Twitter in the Classroom' addition under resources - coming soon!*
*Watch for a 'Twitter in the Classroom' addition under resources - coming soon!*
Conference Presentations
CONNECT 2015 Conference Presentation
In May, 2015 I had the pleasure of delivering a conference presentation at CONNECT, Canada's annual Learning and Technology Conference hosted in Niagara, ON, alongside a community partner from an Urban Aboriginal Head Start (AHS) Program. The conference presentation used storied experiences from one AHS program site to investigate the potential of 'Tablets as a Tool of Empowerment' for the young children enrolled in the program. You can view this presentation here: AHS CONNECT Presentation
In May, 2015 I had the pleasure of delivering a conference presentation at CONNECT, Canada's annual Learning and Technology Conference hosted in Niagara, ON, alongside a community partner from an Urban Aboriginal Head Start (AHS) Program. The conference presentation used storied experiences from one AHS program site to investigate the potential of 'Tablets as a Tool of Empowerment' for the young children enrolled in the program. You can view this presentation here: AHS CONNECT Presentation
Thesis Project Overview
My Master's thesis project seeks to investigate changes to in-service teachers' self-efficacy (one's belief's in their capabilities) for teaching with technology as a result of participation with in a collaborative action research project with a community partner (ME!:)). Project data collection involved myself working with two experienced grade 6 teachers from March - June 2015 on a collaborative action research project related to the presence/use of technology in the classroom (details below), as I delivered professional development sessions related to the selected technologies we were investigating. Throughout this project I also had the pleasure of both co-planning and co-teaching alongside my two grade 6 teacher colleagues in their classrooms.Collaborative Action Research Project Overview:
Myself, a novice researcher and teacher, and two experienced teachers used cycles of co-operative inquiry (action research) to collaboratively investigate how the integration of technology into their practice affected student engagement.
We used a simple 4-item teacher measure (with a scale o f 1-5) that asked:
- How would you rate student’s effort, concentration and overall willingness to participate in this lesson?
- With respect to this lesson, did students select tasks that challenged them (i.e. were at the border of their competencies) and/or initiate the actions when given the opportunity?
- How would you rate overall student emotions during this lesson?
- How would you rate overall student use of metacognitive and/or self-regulatory skills during this lesson?
along with a simple 2-item student measure (with a scale o f 1-5) that asked:
- How would you rate your overall effort and participation/concentration during this lesson?
- How would you rate your overall excitement/interest in this lesson?
to collect data about student engagement following one tech-heavy and non-tech heavy lesson during each teaching day.
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