The Tech Curve

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #67 "What is Breakout EDU?"

This host this week are Zach and Kern.

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Monday, July 20, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #67 Alan November's Building Learning Communities Conference

This hosts this week are Jacob, Britney and Emily.

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Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #66 Going to School with Telepresence

This host this week is Kern and Jasmine.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show - Episode #65 Migrating Graduating Student's Google Accounts

This host this week are Austin and Kern.

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Wednesday, May 06, 2015

The Tech Sherpas - Episode #64: Google Maps Engine

This host this week are Jake and Laura.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

The Tech Sherpas - Episode #63: A Robot Named Sully

This host this week are Zach, Kern, Macie and Cassidy.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Student Magic!

It was a historic week for the Tech Sherpas. Thanks to EdTechTeam, four students from central Maine joined me for educational opportunities across Alberta, Canada. The students presented to over 1,000 educators from around Edmonton.

(and won the Demo Slam :)

The week was capped off with an amazing Student Summit at Black Gold Regional School District in LeDuc. 150 students coded, animated, modded, taught, learned and so much more. The event culminated with one group of little wizards creating a district wide student tech team website. Collaboratively, students researched domain names, designed logos, and built a custom website for their school board with links, resources, and lots of selfies!

The whole thing can be found at www.studentmagic.org

I was amazed at how quickly that one idea, forty-five minutes and thirty amazing students could take the building blocks of a transformational project that will help teachers, give back to the community and ultimately provide a platform for all the students to learn.

So, what are you waiting for - go get started!!

Monday, March 16, 2015

The Tech Sherpas - Episode #62: The Sherpas Tour Alberta!

This host this week are Austin, Jake, Zach and Kern.

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Friday, February 06, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #61 Making Sure You're Signed Out!

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #60 - Google Books Bookshelf

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #59 We chat with Mrs. Mageria's Student Innovation Team

This host this week are Austin and Kern.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Tech Sherpa Show Episode #58: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck?

This host this week are Jake, Austin and Britney.

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Monday, December 08, 2014

The Infinite Thinking Machine

The Tech Sherpas made it on The Infinite Thinking Machine! It's an introduction to some of the work the students do helping educators around the world.

Friday, November 21, 2014

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #57 Maps Engine Lite and the Global Education Conference

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Friday, November 07, 2014

The Art of Deliberate Patience

It was the first snow day of the year on Monday, (November 3rd, by the way, the earliest in my recollection but who's counting) and we did all the typical snow-man-day things, but one of the unexpected benefits was that we lost power and the Internet for the day. Usually that's an imposition of course, but we had a generator and nowhere to be so we came up with our own entertainment.

I remember one of my favorite past-times as a child was building card houses. We had drawers full of partial decks that were never thrown out and I would transform them into impossible towers and forts. I hadn't thought about them until (after a cut throat family tournament of UNO) my son and I started new construction!

I would build, build, build and watch half a tower fall down just to build, build, build again. What I realized is that learning how the tower falls became an integral aspect of the final product itself. And most importantly, I learned a kind of patience in this iteration process. Deliberate patience is something our kids don't experience much these days. (A friend of mine said, "Try watching your T-Ball player wait for a hit in deep right and you'll appreciate patience." ) Developing a practiced patience that comes from stacking cards I was encouraged how long my boys were willing to stick with it.

(My personal record as a child was nine tiers high and something I'm still proud of.)

Friday, October 24, 2014

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #56 YouTube Editor and Private Recordings

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Tech Sherpa Show: Episode #55

This host this week are Jake and Kern.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Tech Sherpas go International!!

The Tech Sherpas had an amazing time this weekend at the first Student Summit and the largest Google in Education Summit to date.

Friday, the Tech Sherpas participated in the Student Summit with the Ottawa Catholic School Board. We had a couple hundred students from various schools where high school students were teaching sessions on Google tools to younger grades. What a fantastic model for learning!

The kids were excited to be there and of course, the Sherpas were happy to help out. These students asked questions, dove into the tools and kept us busy!