Pour commencer, rentrer dans la section privée des enseignants avec votre nom d’usager et votre mot de passe. Cette section contient une mine d’informations et de ressources. Pour l’instant, rendez-vous dans le menu « Ressource du projet », dossier « Instructions ». Prenez le document « Par où commencer » Il s’agit d’une liste de vérification.
Cette liste vous suggère de rassembler votre collection de livres. Il y en a de superbes. Nous en suggérons quelques-uns dans « Ressources partagées ». Je vous invite à enrichir cette liste avec vos préférés.

Dans ce projet, vos élèves vont créer un dessin, écrire un mot ou une phrase sur ce dessin et enregistrer leur voix.

Utilisez la boîte de commentaires en bas de ce texte pour répondre aux deux questions suivantes afin que nous puissions partager nos idées.

Question 1 : Comment pensez-vous procéder pour créer l’image et l’écriture?

• Utiliser un logiciel de dessin et écrire directement sur ce dessin?
• Dessiner et écrire sur papier puis numériser ou photographier ce dessin?
• Créer une construction en 3 dimensions, placer une étiquette-mot et photographier le tout.

Question 2 : Quel logiciel allez-vous utiliser pour enregistrer la voix (Mac ou PC).

Bon! On y va!

Christiane Dufour

I have been thinking a lot lately about the people who have influenced me in my learning and those who play a part in my learning now. It has been an interesting journey.

I taught for 18 years at a private school in Montreal where I was the computer teacher. I am grateful to my colleagues there and to the environment that was fostered by the administration. We talked education frequently and they became a part of my learning and growth. We debated whole language, grappled with what it truly meant, planned and implemented many projects together and always questioned our practices and approaches. However, as the only computer teacher in the school, there were areas of what I wanted to know for which my colleagues could not be my mentors. I had to go elsewhere. There were books and certainly Seymour Papert was a huge influence in my becoming a more constructivist educator. But I did not have contact with him directly except on a rare occasion when I heard him speak at a conference.

I often think of Frank Greene, a professor at McGill who encouraged and nourished me. He spoke of walking the floor at a conference – that the contacts and conversations were as important as listening to the speakers. So true.

As I attended and spoke at conferences, I met people from outside my city and, through e-mail was able to start expanding my circle of mentors. I learned that people, even those on the conference circuit, are approachable and are truly happy to share what they know. People in the education business seem to want to share, to see the changes they are hoping for multiply.

When I left teaching and joined LEARN, my new colleagues were as collaborative and supportive as those whom I had left. Our conversations have forced me to think and rethink about my beliefs and to read and reflect about what I would like to see in education. As we do not meet often face to face, our conversations were often through e-mails and my personal learning network expanded.

However, it has been through the advent of web 2.0 that I have been able to have access to the people in my field on a regular basis and my own growth has been exponential as a result. I regularly read blogs (though I have learned to limit the number), listen to some podcasts and through online communities have come to know people as friends and collaborators whom I have never met face to face. I have many people I can call on to answer my questions, reflect back my thinking and to expose me to their explorations and ideas. Now I can walk the floors virtually and carry on conversations or just listen in on them to nudge my thoughts and point me to articles, new applications and exemplary student work. It has been an exciting time.

I know that teachers have limited time, but I also know that we want our students to be lifelong learners. I feel we have to model this and continue to learn ourselves.

So here are my questions
Who have been your mentors?
Who is part of your personal learning network (face to face or virtual)
How can you use the people in this group to expand your knowledge, share your ideas or create community?
Challenge
Choose one new thing to learn this week.
Where are you going to go to learn it (real world or virtual?)
Who can help you?

Don’t keep the answers to yourself. Share them by commenting on this entry.

Susan

Vous trouverez toujours les instructions et les questions à discuter pour le projet « L’aventure de l’alphabet » sous la catégorie « Aventure de l’alphabet »… évidemment! Cela permet à tous et toutes d’avoir accès aux instructions, aux idées et aux discussions au moment ou votre participation débute. Chaque message vous donne l’occasion de contribuer un commentaire, de répondre à ou de poser une question. Cette façon de procéder permet de mettre à profit la diversité d’expérience des participants pour qu’on puisse tous et toutes en bénéficier.

Remarquez que les messages les plus RÉCENTS seront en haut de la page. Donc, s’il y a plus d’un message quand vous arrivez ici, commencez la lecture par le bas.

Christiane Dufour
Co-ordinatrice du projet