Dave Blemings's Blog (7)

This will be the 8th teacher2teahcer Conference held this April Monday, 29 and Tuesday April 30th in Bow Island, Alberta (3 hours from Calgary). We have had many distinguished presenters including Richard Byrne, Silvia Tolisano, Vicki Davis, The Tech Chicks, Danny Nicholson, James Hollis and many others. Last year I posted on the site looking for presenters and was fortunate enough to bring in Colleen Hoban from …

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Grade 10 (3) Alberta Curriculum Math unit

Here is a unit that has been developed by one of our teachers for Grade 10 Math. Section 3 is the lowest level of Math so this particular Math Unit was made to make it interesting for teachers. This is a big unit 160 Pages with lots of…

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For the past 5 years our division has hosted the teacher2teacher Conference in Medicine Hat, Alberta. I am always on the hunt for presenters. This year I am looking for those teachers or professionals directly connected to classrooms interested in presenting. This would require presenting 4 time slots  in the two day conference during the 8 possible timeslots. This would allow you to attend other sessions.  I am particularly interested in teachers who would be willing to share lessons and…

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This is the 4th year for the conference. We will host 140 sessions over the 2 days - March 18 and 19th, 2010. The conference takes place just outside Medicine Hat Alberta (3 hours drive SE of Calgary, AB) Many of the sessions are smartboard orientated with classroom teachers presenting. Being in Alberta, SMART HQ shows up in force. Last year we had 8 reps and presenters from SMART out of Calgary. But this is just not about Smartboards but also web 2.0 apps, global connections and many more tech… Continue

I have a workshop that I give that is about Finding Resources for A Smartboard Lesson. The workshop lists places to locate video, pictures, learning objects etc ... this moodle is found at



http://prrd.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=30



use the button Login As a Guest button on the page



Have used this for an all day session or very quickly and skimming in an hour and a half



Feel free to use ... am always improving and if you have thoughts email me… Continue

At a recent conference that we hosted SMART Reps asked that we pass on information about 2 sites they are currently working on

1) A Smartboard lesson search engine that they are working on
http://www.smarttech.com/notebookfiles

2) and new beta upload lesson site they are working on
http://resources-alpha.smarttech.com/share

I have been involved over the years running many Smartboard workshops ... I have created many materials and have borrowed others ... I always try to give credit to the sources that I have found on the internet ... I have a moodle course area where I post my materials and others that I use for my workshops ... fell free to access and use the materials ... you can login as a guest by clicking the guest button below the login area ... as always if you know of material or have created material for… Continue