Sean Thompson
About me…
Sean has accepted a position as the Director of Technology at The Early Learning Centre, City School, in Bangkok. He is excited to be working with Giovanni Piazza and the rest of the staff to raise awareness of digital-age teaching and learning practice in this Reggio Emilia inspired environment.
In 2014 he partnered up with DEEP Learning to support the team with the development, promotion and execution of professional development conferences for teachers worldwide.
Sean is also an Apple Distinguished Educator, an International Baccalaureate Educator Network Workshop Leader and a Google Educator available for professional development at your school.
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Personalise your Google+ Banner
It’s easier than you might think to polish up your G+ “face.” I’ve used Keynote but anything in landscape would work the same. In the image below you can see how I’ve used about 40% of the whole slide height. … Continue reading
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How Do We Improve PD for Teachers?
This should be a ridiculous question. I mean, we’re teachers! Right? If there is anything we are supposed to know about it’s well, teaching and learning. So then why are so many conferences and workshops less than completely satisfying? And how … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Learning, Producing, Publishing, Sharing, Professional Development
Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, create, development, digital, digital age, education, future, global, higher order, ICT, integrate, integration, new thinking, PD, philosophy, professional, project based learning, self-directed learning, skills, Tech, technology
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Copyright, Fair Usage & Our Obligation as Educators
Respect is one of life’s fundamental virtues. It means accepting the views of others. It can be hard when we think we know better. As educators we do our best to instill this virtue in our students. As an individual … Continue reading
Rethinking Google+
I have to admit it. I was a little reluctant about Google+ at first. I did my due diligence with Twitter and had some good traffic going through my websites, blog, YouTube Channel and slideshare. Felt I had the whole … Continue reading
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Digital Citizenship: The Everything Intro for Elementary Students
The title sounds like a pretty tall tale but I promise you, is isn’t. As an introduction this project is nothing if not ambitious. It is the culmination of many thoughts, lessons, study and based on my work with international … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Digital Citizenship, Digital Learning, Literacy, New Media, Producing, Publishing, Sharing, Project Based Learning, Visual Literacy
Tagged classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, copyright, create, digital, digital age, digital footprint, Digital responsibility, education, future, global, ICT, integrate, integration, new thinking, philosophy, Privacy, project based learning, publishing, responsibility, self-directed learning, share, sharing, Tech, technology
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Google Apps: Find Everything Fast
Shared this trick with my #iTeach #GAFE’rs yesterday and thought I’d share it with you too! Share it around. More Google Apps slideshow tutorials here and a whole #GAFE Flipped program here.
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Learning 2.014 Asia Reflection
Well I finally made it. Learning 2.0, the educational technology for learning conference that everyone wants to attend. I was lucky enough to have moved to the city where it was being held and further convince my new employer of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Application, classroom, co-construct, collaboration, collaborative, communication, create, digital, digital age, digital footprint, education, future, global, higher order, ICT, making connections, new thinking, philosophy, promotion, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology
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Integrating Synergy
Our Grade Five class just wrapped up a unit on Advertising & Media. As the technology integration specialist my role was to support students in the creation of a collaborative website demonstrating their conceptual understanding of the Central Idea as … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, Application, classroom, collaboration, collaborative, communication, create, digital age, digital footprint, Digital responsibility, education, future, higher order, ICT, integrate, integration, making connections, new thinking, project based learning, promotion, publishing, self-directed learning, share, sharing, skills, Tech, technology, Twitter
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How To: Develop your PLN and Up Your Online Presence
I produced this slideshare for a number of reasons. First off, I was introducing a class to digital-age promotion using social media. I also wanted to support those who are interested in developing their own personal learning networks or take … Continue reading
Meaningful Online Search Techniques
I made this to support students and teachers at my school. I hope it can help others too. Researching Online (made easy) from Sean Thompson
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