Mr.+Kennedy+at+Elmbank

Welcome to the wikispaces site devoted to Elmbank Junior Middle Academy and the online home of some of the projects that are connected to me, Mr. Kennedy, an Elmbank teacher.

This is my first year using a school wikispace and I am intrigued by the educational possibilities that such a digital platform may provide. Students benefit from having their best work published in the digital world and teachers benefit from having a forum to compare, reflect and collaborate. Beyond the school level, parents and community benefit from both communicating with teachers and seeing student progress through their work.

I am presented with a challenge of blending a number of digital platforms together to seek new ways. A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) teacher has opportunities to work with Academic Workspace, the board's discussion board and multimedia platform, the school website, and the board provided email account through Outlook. Beyond these TDSB initiatives, it may also possible to make use of blogs, twitter, facebook, tumblr, the wikispaces for schools opportunity that you are reading right now and other digital situations yet to be discovered. I will be providing links below as my explorations expand. If you have any suggestions or feel that I have missed something, please email me at jamesmark.kennedy@tdsb.on.ca

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