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Before you start with WordPress, you need to make some decisions. Please review all 6 steps below to decide on your approach. Decide if you are comfortable being online. If not, you can document your learning offline (with technology). For… Continue Reading →
About Jeff & PSII Jeff Hopkins is the founder and principal of the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry (PSII), located at 808 Douglas Street in Victoria, which is an independent high school (grades 9-12). The school is built entirely… Continue Reading →
Digital storytelling is a form of digital media production that allows individuals to tell a story with video. These may be in the form of personal monologues; stories of a place, person, event, or thing; reflections; documentaries; science fiction; poetry;… Continue Reading →
The Multimedia Learning Hypothesis Learning is effected when multiple representations of content is offered. Simply, using both words and pictures is more effective than providing words alone. Educators can adapt and use multimedia to enhance learning in a multitude of… Continue Reading →
open educational resources Legally reusable, adaptable, and useful educational content is available if you know where and how to look. Resources you make for your own practice may take many forms, and these links are just a little of what… Continue Reading →
Recording what you are doing on your computer screen has become fairly standard for many educators, this is called a screencast. For flipped classroom activities or to have a video recording of a lesson that students struggle with, giving them… Continue Reading →
Video has become an important resource for use in education. It is often integrated as part of traditional courses, serves as a resource for many blended courses, and may be the main information delivery mechanism in some fully online courses…. Continue Reading →
Accessibility to online resources is a fundamental element of creating and curation of online content. Since many individuals may have one or many barriers which act to impede their abilities, ensuring options for accessibility for all content is critical. Web… Continue Reading →
To assist you in finding resources that are not copyrighted, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with Creative Commons. Creative Commons is an initiative that provides licensing options that span between copyrighted and public domain. You can learn more about… Continue Reading →
The term Open Educational Resources (OER) includes educational content which is shared freely and openly to be used by anyone to adapt/ repurpose/improve under an open copyright licence in order to redistribute and share again The emergence of open educational resources (OER) in higher education is part of the much… Continue Reading →