Finishing Projects
There is something satisfying about seeing a project come to its conclusion. I think it’s safe to say that the longer the project takes to complete, the more people involved, and the larger the scope,…
Tales of Community Building
We started this year with a Community Building Call to Action. We can sum up the work that many educators have done over the past month. However, we’d rather present to you the experiences of…
Asking Questions
“What do you want to learn?” “How do you want to show me what you’ve learned?” These are the questions we hear being asked on our visit to Aldershot High School. We are sitting in…
From Why to Barbie Bungee
Back when I started down this ever Shifting road, I learned that good Innovation starts with identifying a WHY. Why might I want to let students access technology in class? Why is building a positive…
Call to Action: Community Building
So we’ve all survived our first week back! Hopefully you’ve settled into some sort of routine with your classes. We are hoping that you’ll make daily community building a part of that routine. We all…
Getting Ready For September 5th
Here we go, all set for another year playing this game called school! Some of you undoubtedly have spent some time last week preparing for students’ arrival on Tuesday, some of you unpacking after moving…
Summer Sign Off
Well Shifters, it has been a great semester! Since starting this blog in February of this year, we have had so much fun learning about what teachers are doing in their classes and talking about…
Shift Your [Blank]
So, we have nearly made it! Another year down. Hopefully you have been reading the blog (heck, you are now at least!) and you have been thinking about ways that you’d like to experiment, to…
The Mark You Get Isn’t You
Hey there Shifters, Matt here with an interruption to your regular scheduled programming. You see, my fellow shifter, Jamie Mitchell was presented with a pretty huge honour today at school. Some of you may have…
Square Pegs and Round Holes
First, as we learn about our platform for blogging we’ve come across some shortcomings. We often embed videos in our posts. If you are reading this post in an email update, you can’t see the…