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

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

9. 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/

10. Questions?Comments?Reactions?Concerns?

11. 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