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.

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  • Debbie Gardner

    Hey! ....got the pic on. Will write a profile soon! Thanks for telling me about this site. I can tell I'll be spending lots of time here. Very cool!

    Jun 17, 2008

  • Anne Mirtschin

    Hmm... sufficient blogging time for a 11-12 year old. Our 11-12 year olds have 2 x 50 minute lessons a week in the computer room, but once they start blogging they want to add so much of their work online. However, even 50 mins per week is enough to quickly add something to a blog post. It would be good if they have all their work preplanned or even written before they got to the computers. Some of our students do not have internet access but the ones who do, will happily blog away at home on topics of their own choosing, but usually diary type entries. Delete Comment

    Aug 2, 2008

  • suehellman

    Hi Jan -- I'd like to invite you to join a Classroom 2.0 group called Canadians Mashup. I'm trying to build a network of Canadian educators and bloggers. No discussions yet. I'm just starting out by trying to find where everyone lives and what they teach. If you're interested, please add me as a colleague as well.

    If you add yourself to the map, please include a name or a photo of some sort. There seem to be a lot of unidentified people from unidentified places and the map is getting stuck on for some reason. The problem is that I can't tell from the members’ list which anonymous hits are real people and which were just false starts. The company does not differentiate members unless there is a picture or a name. Location only is not enough to help me know which entries are not real ones. THANKS!!!!

    BTW -- great news about those laptops!

    Dec 27, 2008