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Obama, Social Networking, and Digiteen

November 6, 2008 by Phil Macoun 4 Comments

There have been a bunch of thoughts swirling around in my head over the past week that I really have to write down so that I can move on to other things. My experiences as a teacher involved in the Digiteen Project this year have gotten me thinking alot about how to engage teenagers in … [Read more…]

Digi Teen Stories

October 25, 2008 by Phil Macoun 7 Comments

This year I decided my grade 9 class would join the Digi Teen project, an amazing global collaborative project dreamed up by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. As participants in this project my grade 9 technology class is engaged in researching different aspects of digital citizenship and collaborating with peers from other countries to edit … [Read more…]