Parent Reaching Out portal
This screencast is used by the pilots schools for the Niagara Catholic Regional School Council Parent Reaching Out Project. Parents are able to participate in events using an online portal. More info
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Classroom Blogging
Classroomblogging.com is a compilation of ideas, resources and tutorials to help parents and teachers use blogs to support student learning. Advice for beginner bloggers is available to quick start anyone interesting in blogging.
Skills: lesson planning, blog maintenance, research and development, online communication. Screencasting Streaming media services: Ustream and Mogulus
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Parents as Partners
Ourschool.ca is a forum for parents and educators to discuss issues related to parents and schools. The site also serves as an archive for the recorded shows from the Parents as Partners webcast at www.edtechtalk.com. As the moderator of this blog I am responsible for the posting of content as well as the presentation and management of a WordPress install using a modified theme. This blog placed second in the 2008 Edublog awards for the Best Use of Educational Audio
Skills: Online collaboration, web site maintenance, wordpress install, audio editing, video editing, community building
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Webcaster
I am a graduate of the Webcastacademy
You can find me as the moderator and show host for the Parents as Partners Webcast at www.edtechtalk.com, a Collaborative Open Webcasting Community.
and a co host for the Live Conversations at Classroom 2.0 Classroom 2.0 is an online community of educators with over 16, 000 members.
As a show host I am responsible for the program development, guest inservice, management of a virtual classroom (Elluminate) and web site maintenance. This is an example of a screencast developed to extend a live conversation session about feedreaders. Click for video. Requires Quicktime plugin.
Skills: Audio and video editing, web site maintenance, team building, advertising and promotion.
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Niagara Catholic Parent Program
As the project Facilitator my work involved meeting with parents and educators in the Niagara Catholic District School Board. In particular a focus group of the Niagara Catholic Regional School Council used this online discussion forum to develop and assist in the production of the following resources.
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An online training Video
Dedicated Website
Interactive online Handbook. Users could read through a pdf document to view interviews with parents describing best practices in involving parents.
This post video is an excerpt of Convention workshop held at the annual School Council convention hosted by the Niagara Catholic District School Board. The complete presentation produced by is Telus is hosted here.
This Keynote Presentation was used during the workshop webcast.
Skills: Program facilitation, team building, public speaking, word processing, report writing, email communication, production coordination, manual creation and production, web site maintenance, video production and editing, Photoshop editing, Pages, Keynote, iMovie 08
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