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Eastern Shores School Board RÉCIT ESMC September 12, 2006 Presented by Stephen Kohner

Eastern Shores School Board RÉCIT ESMC September 12, 2006 Presented by Stephen Kohner. Today’s Menu. Package for your staff R É CIT Mandate ESSB RECIT Web Site E-Portfolios at Grosse Isle School (PDIG 05-06) The Place We Call Home: Shigawake / Port Daniel School (Quebec Roots)

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Eastern Shores School Board RÉCIT ESMC September 12, 2006 Presented by Stephen Kohner

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  1. Eastern Shores School Board RÉCITESMCSeptember 12, 2006Presented byStephen Kohner

  2. Today’s Menu • Package for your staff • RÉCIT Mandate • ESSB RECIT Web Site • E-Portfolios at Grosse Isle School (PDIG 05-06) • The Place We Call Home: Shigawake / Port Daniel School(Quebec Roots) • The Connected Classroom

  3. Mandate • Training and professional development of teachers in the use of ICT for the classroom in accordance with the QEP • Guidance and support of teachers developing and carrying out local educational projects • Technology watch • Innovation and experimentation • Foster the provincial organization known as LEARNing Communities-RÉCIT • Member of the ESSB IT Committee

  4. Some Key Characteristics… • Pedagogy first; Technology second • Participants have strong sense of pedagogy, organization, initiative, persistence and resourcefulness • Desire to break the feeling of isolation (within the profession; school board; region; personal) • Desire to integrate ICT into their pedagogy in order to improve student learning • Supportive and consistent leadership from school principal • Appropriate allocation of ICT hardware, software, peripheral devices, budget (school/ESSB), RÉCIT services

  5. A Closer Look… E-Portfolioat Grosse Isle School • The “E” in E-Portfolio stands for electronic • An E-Portfolio is a web-based, interactive, and multimedia platform that allows users to access files (upload/download/transfer), communicate, store, showcase, and present their work and work-in-progress via an exterior Internet server/web site. • Since it is web-based, it is available ‘24-7’ from home, school, office or via a wireless net. • There are a number of features, depending upon one’s status (teacher; student; administrator). • Developed by Concordia University for use in Québec and the international educational community. • E-portfolios are still very much in the experimental phase.

  6. A Closer Look… E-Portfolio • Agenda / Personal Space • Files & documents • Digital portfolio (E-portfolio) • Digital Reading Portfolio (DRP) • Divided by Class, Cycle, Term, and Project • Place for teacher, student, peer and parents comments • Highly structured and secure environment • User Manual

  7. A Closer Look… The Place We Call Home • Link a Quebec author/photographer with a class (Stephanie Gallan C-3 of SPDS) • an online, tele-collaborative project in which writers, photographers and students from 12 classes (elementary, secondary and adult education) across Quebec will communicate and collaborate in a shared virtual meeting space and produce a 24-page book of their own writings and photographs. • Combine digital photographs/images with text based upon interviews with community members • Links school, home, local history/folklore, people, places and events • Pilot Project sponsored by MELS, DGFJ-SCA, Fondation Metropolis Bleu, Bell, Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, ESSB, LEARN and LEARNing Communities-RÉCIT

  8. The Connected ClassroomLEARNing Communities-RÉCIT • ‘Learn by Doing’ Projects • QEP-ICT based • Designed by educators for educators • Elementary / Secondary projects • Increasingly multimodal: read & produce texts that interweave image, sound, & print (QEP Secondary Cycle 2 ELA) • Support via e-mail; Internet; phone (last resort) • On-line Help Centre • NEW! Multimedia between the covers http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/cc/

  9. Questions?Comments?Reactions?Concerns?

  10. Contact Information Stephen Kohner RÉCIT animator, ESSBBaie Comeau High School39 avenue MarquetteBaie-Comeau, QC G4Z 1K4tel: 418-296-0679fax: 418-296-4883stephen.kohner@easternshores.qc.cahttp://www.essb.qc.ca/recit

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