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Makerspace: Celebrating creativity in teaching
17 May 2023
Planning Your
Digital Toolbox
Join this self-directed course to explore blended learning tools and approaches through reflective practice.
Educator Network
Join the Educator Network to learn from and with colleagues in a collaborative, creative, co-learning space. We explore the ways in which a blended learning approach can engage and empower learners and enhance and extend learning.
Contact Tracey or use the contact form to find out more.
Educator Network programs
are places where literacy practitioners come together to learn from each other and access the research capacity of AlphaPlus. Here are some of the ways you can participate in this rich conversation about literacy work in a networked world.
Open the sections below to see a description of each program, what we are planning and the work we have done recently.
Check out the Home page or look under Training and Workshops to see what is happening next.
Join your peers to …
Engage in real talk about literacy matters
Community Gabfests are Zoom gatherings for literacy educators who want to connect with their peers in an informal setting. Connecting with other educators helps us see our work with fresh eyes, validates our experiences and is a powerful way to renew our energy, purpose, and excitement about our work. Join us as we chat, vent, brainstorm, etc., about this work that we love.
See our past Gabfests here: Complete Gabfest Collection
Join our next Gabfest here: Next Gabfest
Cultivate your blended learning toolbox
The Educator Network Blended Learning program is eight reflective-practice modules for exploring blended learning approaches and digital technology tools and resources that will enhance and expand learning in your program.
AlphaPlus Educator Network Blended Learning participants:
- Plan, experience and evaluate blended learning approaches and methods.
- Increase your confidence in applying blended learning practices.
- Build relationships with colleagues around the province.
- Share ideas and resources.
Read the Features and Benefits and the Course Outline to learn more.
See the Winter 2022 Educator Network Blended Learning Toolbox for a collection of blended learning resources recommended by your network peers.
Apply the Google toolbox to your practice
The Educator Network Applying the Google Toolbox program is a series reflective-practice workshops for people who participated in the Building Digital Skills with Google workshops. We take a deeper dive into the features and functions that you think are most relevant to your practice and support each other as we apply these new possibilities by co-creating activities and lessons.
Our first check in and planning sessions are on May 16 (afternoon) and 17 (evening). If you participated in one of the Winter 2023 Introduction to the Google Workspace and Google Applied Skills series, contact Tracey to find out more or register here. Here is what we have planned: Check in, Planning and Foundational Skills.
Explore creation tools in a makerspace
Through the Wayfinders Studio, people just like you are exploring, experimenting, piloting and reflecting on how digital technology can enhance learning in creative ways. Join us to experience a makerspace and to tinker, create and imagine.
Wayfinders 2023-2024
Open Education Resources MakerSpace (coming Fall 2023)
Wayfinders 2022-2023
Wayfinders 2020-2022
The Educator Network at your organization
The Educator Network project has developed and facilitated organization-specific communities of professional learning at the Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy (MTML), the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and la Coalition ontarienne de formation des adultes (COFA).
Contact Tracey or Guylaine to discuss possibilities for your organization.
The Educator Network enabled me to slow down and reflect on how I have been using technology and how I might improve my usage of it from a pedagogical/andrological standpoint. The course offered both a theoretical basis for using technology along with providing experience using new apps.
Educator Network participant
Participating in the Educator Network helped me to discover many educational tools, collaborate with other instructors, check their ideas and provide feedback. It was an excellent way to reflect on my thoughts on teaching and using digital technology as a learner and a teacher at the same time.
Educator Network participant
I found it really useful, fun and flexible. I got to choose my own combination of video meetings, online coursework, sharing forums, resource lists and documents designed to help me develop my own projects, over 8 weeks of learning.
Educator Network participant
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