http://ourmedia.org/user/14093 Recently published media items from Ourmedia.org en http://ourmedia.org/node/475382 Audio recording of Richard Cloutier's interview of Darren Kuropatwa on 2 January 2009. Some of the topics discussed include education in the 21st Century, numeracy, the impact of rapid technological change on teaching and learning, and the K12 Online Conference. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:13:22 -0800 Richard Cloutier and Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/475166 A 30 second promotional spot leading up to Richard Cloutier Reports interview with Darren Kuropatwa on Jan 2, 2009. Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:25:34 -0800 Richard Cloutier and Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/473219 A brief reflection on the calculus commercials created by students in my 2008 AP Calculus AB class. http://apcalc2008.blogspot.com The commercials are aggregated on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmTnDudQR0 Music is El Raton by Songo 21 http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1372 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:36:00 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/473118 A brief podcast refelction by students in my 2008 AP Calculus AB class: http://apcalc2008.blogspot.com Music: El Raton by Songo 21: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/1372 Calculus commercials available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmTnDudQR0 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:23:42 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/469785 A short audio clip of a radio interview of Darren Kuropatwa by Margaux Watt of CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Manitoba, about how he uses technology in his teaching and how he shared that knowledge with other teachers at a local conference on November 28, 2008. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:35:50 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/469720 Audio from a workshop I gave k-12 teachers on how to rejig their lessons to take advantage of social media and the affordances offered by free tools available on the internet. The focus was more on pedagogical approaches rather than a suite of tools alone. Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:41:19 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/466735 Audio from the second hour of my November 7, 2008 workshop: "Numeracy Across the Curriculum: I heard the news today. Oh boy!" This was presented to the staff of Sargent Park School (kindergarden to grade 9; students aged 5 to 14). Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:35:30 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/466710 Audio from the first hour of my November 7, 2008 workshop: "Numeracy Across the Curriculum: I heard the news today. Oh boy!" This was presented to the staff of Sargent Park School (kindergarden to grade 9; students aged 5 to 14). Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:50:19 -0800 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/461448 Audio track from a workshop given by Darren Kuropatwa to the Public Relations Charis of various school divisions from across the province of Manitoba. The workshop shared tips and ideas for leveraging the power of free social media tools to actively engage teacher associations and their membership. Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:09:18 -0700 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/406260 Two students, one grade 12 (17 years old) one grade 11 (16 years old), discuss how they evolved their innovative study practices that lead to them doing better on their final provincial standards test than they had done in their class work during the winter semester of 2008. They used a mash up of various online tools and reveal how they unwittingly became mentors for the rest of their class. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:37:24 -0700 Darren Kuropatwa http://ourmedia.org/node/410959 Dr. Richard Van Eck from the University of North Dakota gave a keynote presentation at the Microsoft Innovative Educators Conference help in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on May 29, 2008. He shares some remarkable statistics about studentsw and learning and discusses how using commercial off the shelf (COTS) games can be used to reach some students and improve their scholastic acheivements. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:43:23 -0700 http://ourmedia.org/node/404113 In this episode of Student Voices three Pre-Calculus students talk about how they put together their Developing Expert Voices (http://expertvoices08.blogspot.com) project and what they learned in the process: how they they best learn math, how it can best be taught, and many other incidental things like team work and organizational skills. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:21:11 -0700 Darren Kuropatwa