This year's CUE conference is coming along quite well!  Two other PSAs will be joining us (Gifted and talented and Distributed Education) and there promises to be a wide range of presentations to match different interests and abilities.    Some of this year's conference highlights include:

• Will Richardson who is well-known for his book, "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Tools for Classrooms" will be the Friday keynote speaker.   He has insp...
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Underfunded tech budget? Free applications may have a place in your classroom or school. Using cutting edge technology is often said to be a daunting task but finding applications that are worth using is the biggest challenge. Simon Elliot an Apple Distinguished Educator from the UK has created, what has to be, the most comprehensive collection of Apple compatible educationally applicable programs that I have seen to date. The key to this collection is that the programs are all free, and for the...
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The second annual CUE-BC video contest is soon upon us! This goal of this article is to show that stop motion video is a tool that educators can quickly and easily use with students to connect to a variety of curricular areas.

Stop motion video is a technique for making still objects appear as if they are moving through the use of frame-by-frame animation. An object is moved slightly between individually photographed frames. The series of frames is played back in a continuous sequence and the re...
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Elaan Bauder

Facebook is a social-networking site.  Basically, it gives each user their own webpage and allows you to connect to other people that you know.  When ...
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In an age where television, movies, videogames, iPods and the internet dominate children’s lives, a lone teacher with a piece of chalk at the front of a classroom pales in comparison.  In their out of school lives, students are accustomed to rapid scene changes, dramatic costumes, sound effects and a running sound track.  In school, they seem to be bored by the comparative slow pace and lack of visual stimulation.  How can we harness learner’s attention when their brai...
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Tom Nguyen

As I approached this coming school year, armed with ideas on building the school community coupled with a healthy dose of inspiration, I was immediately beset by uncer...
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Alan Zisman

Now you can look forward to students carrying co...
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Kevin Amboe

This Spring, I heard another teacher comment how they search Del.icio.us before going to Google.  While I was slightly shocked, I fully understand why they do this. Del.icio.us is a filtered site where people care enough to take the 10 seconds it takes to add a bookmark.  It is also organized by subject area through taggging.  Going a step further, you don't have to search all...
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Christopher Rozitis

The students used the built in iSight cameras and  Photo Booth to take pictures of themselves. Photo Booth can add a special image effect such as Sepia, Black & White, Glow, Comic Book, or X-Ray. Nearly 400 st...
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David Brear

According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2) "Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed generation of Internet-based servcies --- such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomie...
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The promise of technology even in teaching and learning, I thought, was that it was going to make things easier and give us all more leisure time.  Often I wonder if it hasn't done the reverse. There are days when I open my email and find myself inundated with requests of my time to reconsider, explain or teach something.  From my email alone I am constantly swamped with information on new ideas for ways to use technology, new web pages to check out, articles to read, videos to vie...
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Maryjanne Yusyp, coordinator of the Learning Community formerly provided by BCEd Online, is pleased to announce that it has successfully been moved to its own hub and is open for business. Maryjanne, who will continue to manage the community, would also like to announce that as a result of a merger between BCEd Online and the Virtual School Society, the community will continue at LearnNowBC (LNBC).

LNBC connects students and parents to K-12 courses and other educational opportunities and service...
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CUEBC AGM will take place in multi-purpose room at lunch
All BCTF members are welcome to vote and run for elections

AGENDA: CUEBC AGM - October 19, 2007

1. Call to Order
2. Motion to adopt agenda
3. Motion to adopt minutes of the previous AGM (October 20, 2006 in Coquitlam)
4. President’s Report – James McConville
5. Vice President’s Report – Mike Silverton
6. Treasure’s Report – Glen Holmes
   Statement of financial status from 2006-2007 to members.
   Budget for 2007-2008 presented to membe...
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