Conference 2007.  October 18 and 19th. http://www.cuebc.ca/conference/

Bookmark your calendar for the most significant educational technology event this year.  The CUEBC fall conference will feature two keynotes, numerous presenters, all the top technology sponsors and great networking.

“Teaching to the Multiple Literacies” is again our theme this year.  We believe that technology can be integrated into all subject areas to support ALL the literacies.  This include...
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Brent Raabe

In this article I will show you how to set up...
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Free software is a hobby of mine.  Whenever I hear about a new free program I just have to check it out.  I’ve found some good ones and some not-so-good ones, but one thing that has always surprised me is how few educators are aware of  these programs. 

Over the course of the next few CUEBC newsletters I will be covering several categories of free software.  You’ve probably heard of some of these programs, but hopefully you’ll find a few new gems.

The ca...
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A Webkinz studio… $1000 Kinzcash
Two animated actors… $150
One virtual playground set… $100
Grade 1&2’s working online and in class with Grade 4 & 5 Buddies…priceless

Grade 1/2 students and their grade 4/5  “big buddies” have just finished up a social responsibility project. The topic: solving problems in peaceful ways. The medium to display their learning: a computer animation application in Webkinz World called Webkinz Studio. Together the...
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It is amazing the resources and tools that are available for free online.  The world of web 2.0 – the world that has brought us podcasts, wikis, photo sharing and numerous other social tools – is largely free.  Wikipedia, home to about 6.4 million articles, and close to 250 million edits – all done by volunteers, is one of the most pronounced examples of the power of the new social web, and the changing ways we interact with information.  While other areas are we...
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So there I was after two years of TLITE. I had transferred to an an inner city school with very limited resources in technology and not all staff were even on email.  I was asked to do technology support for the school along with teaching a grade one/two class. I quickly realized that I had a choice. Either I had wasted two years doing a graduate diploma program in technology or, I could use what I had learned, turn obstacle into opportunity, and continue my journey.

This is how it all unfo...
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As long as there have been students, teachers, and assessment, there has been cheating. New technology results in new methods of cheating; online sale of essays has gotten a lot of attention in the past few years, for example. Reportedly, some cell-phone savvy students text-message questions and answers to one another during tests.

Recently, though, the media has started reported on some schools or districts banning iPods, presumably as a result of these popular music players being used to help c...
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So what is Digital Story Telling? It is the old art of passing stories on from one generation to the next except with a twist. Today we have the advantage of being able to create Digital Stories using not only verbal and written word but digital resources as well. Using Apple’s iMovie and Microsoft’s Movie Maker, we can bring together sound, music, digital video and digital stills to create a digital story.

Start with the art of storytelling. Add the use of technology and storytellin...
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As a long time MAC user currently working with a three and a half year old 15” G4 PowerBook I wanted to develop ways of making the standard laptop more of an interactive mediator of student learning, bearing in mind that it will not work as a Tablet. Although I have been developing classical slide shows for my geoscience units and courses for the past three years and have used the ability to overprint and delay projection of sections of the slide to enhance the text as well as give time fo...
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