A Wide Variety of Workshops

Comfortable teaching 'Flash!'; modeling engaging uses of media; differentiating with rich performance tasks; sharing Web 2.0 tools; introducing robotic challenges; highlighting best practices in education

"If it's e-Learning, I'll teach it!"

London Region e-Learning Symposium

As coordinator of the London Region e-Learning Symposium, led the region to share a wide range of workshops, meeting the diverse needs of guidance counsellors, credit recovery teachers, coop educators, e-learning teachers and administrators.

Due to popular demand, Rodd's Web 2.0 Tools workshop was also delivered at the Sudbury-North Bay Regional e-Symposium.

ABEL Summer Institute

Upon invitation from Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning at York University, Social Networking for Teachers was shared to a receptive audience of educators and administrators in the summer of 2008.

MediaFest

In order to assist boards in meeting media communications expectations, the story of MediaFest has been shared with the Regional Computer Advisory Council Symposium, and with the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario.

Minding the Gap

The Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada invited my colleague Kathy Hibbert (UWO) and I to share preliminary results of our "Engagement through Online Rich Performance Tasks" research project.

The Saskatoon audience was very receptive to our ideas about learning, and how it related to teacher education.

Leading Learning

In the Spring of 2008 at the Leading Learning Conference in Toronto, educators will had an opportunity to network regarding how best to harness evolving e-learning tools for the benefit of teachers and students alike.

Participants were encouraged to adopt emerging tools in an interactive workshop titled: Let's Ban Chalk.

When Faith Meets Pedagogy

Sharing the Online Learning Tools developed in the past few years with the Catholic Curriculum Cooperative, resulted in further sharing by participants, as indicated by this blog post.

Online Safety

Acting as a lead presenter for the LDCSB as part of the London-Elgin-Oxford-Middlesex Online Safety Task Force, joined police services, parents and board representatives in the delivery of public presentations on evolving issues related to Internet safety.

To help teachers and students understand the issues, I created Web Literacy 101

Rich Learning Experiences

As Tech Challenge Coordinator, challenge development, teacher training, and the 'main event' are all opportunities for leadership within the Science & Technology curriculum.