Scroll down to see a selection of videos I have created for teacher professional learning. I like to model video creation with tools that are easy to access for most teachers. I use PowerPoint and turn to MovieMaker and ActivePresenter when PowerPoint is not enough.
For the most part, I created these videos to use within specific stations-based learning situations. That way participants can access content on their own or in small groups at one station while I can talk with others, one small group at a time, at another station. You have heard of flipping the classroom? I like to flip IN the classroom :)
Talking about maintaining connection when teaching and learning online.
French version of the Building Connections video.
Talking about using images licensed through the Creative Commons for our classrooms.
Talking about how we can make our online resources easier to access for our students.
I created this for teacher PD on reading strategies for older learners. Aussi disponible en français ici.
Website created to accompany the Fix-up Strategies video. Included on the site are reference books and articles as well as the video transcript.
Triangulation is very UDL in its approach to gathering information about student learning in different ways. Here, Gail Gagnon, Avi Spector, and I talk about how triangulation works. This is featured in the PD Mosaic tile on Triangulation.
Part 2 of a 3-part series on using video in the classroom. I initially created these videos for an online course at Campus RECIT and continue to use them in workshops.
I created this when working with welding students at Nova Career Centre. I now use it as a sample when working with teachers who want to create their own videos.
This video is part of a series of videos for French second language learners. I coordinated the project and wrote two of the videos (note: Julia Haney did the graphics for these ones)
Bringing knowledge about acoustic design into our classrooms. Disponible en français, ici.
Talking about Universal Design in the classroom, part 2. This was originally designed in French for the FADIO 2019 conference & translated to English as part of a presentation to vocational teachers at the QACVE 2019 conference. (Click here for Part 1)
I talk about UDL for professional development and the importance of modeling what we want to see in our classrooms in our PD. You can see me present this en français, ici (at 25:57)
Collective teacher efficacy has become Hattie's top indicator of student achievement (2018). Here we talk about how it helps us to work through change together.
Troy Bradley, a Living English teacher, shares his first time co-constructing criteria with his students.
A video about students reflecting on their experiences working in a stations approach.
Derek Stacey, an automotive mechanics teacher, shares his approach to creating a shared understanding of new vocabulary for his students.
Dianne Labelle, director of the First Nations Regional Adult Education Centre in Kahnwake describes their innovative community based curriculum mapping project.
Julie and Michelle, FLS teachers, talk about creating an online resource site for their students and how they learned that it was not enough to just create it - they had to model its use.
This was my first teacher-story video.
Daniel Afriyie, math teacher, records his lessons for his students. In this video, he talks about how it helps him to become a better teacher. This is the second in a 2-part series where Daniel talks about recording his lessons.