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Newsletter
November 2015
Highlights from LEARN
QPAT Convention 2015
LEARN Web Events
Workshops to please every “palette”
Join us for some online PD
The LEARN team will be representing in full force this year. Join us for:
•Helping Special Needs and At-Risk Students in Kindergarten: A Teacherʼs Toolkit
•Video Assisted Science Instruction for Science Lab Experiments
•Making Your Content Sing! A Practical Guide to Effective Presentations
•All I Really Need to Know, I Learned on Twitter
•Helping Students Succeed in School: How-Toʼs to the Rescue!
•Teachers Talking with Teachers: Effective Practices in Action
For more information about the convention, visit: http://bit.ly/QPAT-convention-2015
Donʼt miss Spotlight on the Arts - an effervescent art education event, featuring a dropin ArtHive makerspace and two teacher workshops. Come by, hang out, make art!
http://spotlight.learnquebec.ca
November 24 at 3:30 pm (EST), LEARN
and ALDI present: Understanding Brain
Functioning and How it Applies in the
Classroom with Cindy Hovington. Cindy
will share brain research and how it can
help teachers create a classroom
environment that is conducive to learning
and the brain. Remember, all LEARN
Web Events are archived and freely
available on the LEARN site.
http://bit.ly/LEARN-webevents
RemixEd Camp 2015
VoDZone Education
Kindergarten Education
For educators by educators
Videos on demand and more
Join the conversation, Saturday
November 28 at McGill University. Free
entry, free breakfast, free lunch, free
daycare and tons of giveaways. This
event will not only feature a traditional
EdCamp, but also a makerspace,
Google and Office 365 workshops,
coding, an app demo slam and so much
more. Register today as spots are filling
up quickly!
www.remixedcamp.ca
Watch Ann Quesnel from GRICS
demonstrate VoDZone Education. In this
archive, Ann references many of the
resources available through the site. She
also suggests classroom integration
techniques, highlights the new teacher
zone, and discusses a plethora of
exciting tools.
http://bit.ly/LEARN-webevent-vodzone
For additional VoDZone resources, visit:
http://bit.ly/LEARN-vodzone
Helping Special Needs and
At-Risk Students
Subscribe
Thereʼs a brand new section of our
Kindergarten website! A Teacherʼs Toolkit
provides a process and offers
suggestions to help a child in distress or
facing a challenge. It is meant to help
you understand the situation, create a
warm and secure environment, and
implement solid classroom management
strategies.
http://bit.ly/LEARN-kinder-atrisk
www.learnquebec.ca