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Jan Smith

, Female

Comox Valley, British Columbia

Canada

Profile Information:

School / Work Affiliation: Comox Valley School District
Blog: http://resiever.edublogs.org
Website: http://huzzah.edublogs.org
Skype Account: jansmith_71
Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: Twitter: jansmith Plurk: jansmith
About Me: I teach and learn with Grade 6 students. Blogging has become a focus in our classroom at Huzzah!. We are exploring a lot of different things, including inquiry learning and enactment strategies (big fan of Jeffrey Wilhelm). Tech wise: VoiceThread, Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3, Pivot animation, and a few other tools to share our thinking. I'm learning to get the most out of the Smartboard just installed in my room. And I am working on a Master's degree; my action research is looking at student engagement through blogging. I experiment, ponder, and make mistakes every day.

Comment Wall:

Peggy Soong Yaplee

Hi Jan,
It is great to see classroom teachers infusing so much technology in their classroom. I can see that you are doing some great integration with some great tools. I learned of a new one I had not heard before and that is Pivot animation. I will have to go and check it out.
I am a full time computer teacher to an elementary school in Seattle and serve all the kids. I wish I could block out a whole hour to work with my students. Since I give all the teachers their breaks, they are only 30 minutes.
Good luck on your Masters degree, I am in the middle of my PhD degree with some time off because I am working on my National Boards Certification.
Let me know how I could help.
Peggy

May 10, 2008
David Truss

Thanks for the friendship invite Jan!
I haven't had very much of a presence on Classroom2.0 recently but as soon as I finish moving my blog, (one-post-at-a-time and reflecting on every one of them along the way), then I will pop back over here and add more. Great to see your tech involvement, keep us up to date on the Smartboard... I just made one with the Wiimote, (actually a Gr. 7 student did it for me), but have not had much time to play with it yet.
Dave.
I thought Comox Valley had Middle Schools?

May 10, 2008
TeachingSagittarian

Thanks for the Friend invite Jan! You will love your smartboard and wonder what you ever did without one before! There are heaps of people here on the ning to help you out any time!

May 10, 2008
David Truss

Jan,
Thanks for the comment! I tidied up the links and added a link to this Classroom2.0 profile from your name- hope that is ok with you.
Reflecting on each post has been wonderfully cathartic, (and painfully slow, but a worthwhile trade-off).
I think you are right about the need for good pedagogy. I touched on that in the post and will elaborate a bit more on my response to your comment.
Thanks again,
Dave

May 11, 2008
Daniel Rezac

Good to be friends with you! Don't know if you checked out the wiki yet, but let's hang on until we get a few more contributors. I'm hoping that happens soon. Please pass this on to others that you know, if you think they might be interested. This could certainly be a lot of fun! While you're at it, you can start by simply creating a New Page using the Team Member template. Be creative or just go simple.
Daniel

Jun 11, 2008