Considering how many PD sessions for French teachers at my school board seem to have "networking" as a stated goal, you'd think Teacher business cards would have made their way into teachers' tote bags by now. …

I often hear French Teachers complain that there's so much fun stuff available in English. Why can't there be fun stuff in French too? Well, there is. You just need to know how to locate it! So go ahead and save this blog…

A decade ago, there was a lot more collaboration in the blogging world. Or maybe there still is, but I'm just missing out somehow - I definitely blog alone these days. I miss those days, as what I wanted to share out with the…

Have you been wanting to try Centres in your French class, but stuck on what you could do to include the Listening strand within your routines? Let me share with you a number of activities that I've thought of or encountered …

If "not enough time" was my excuse for not maintaining my blog before, I guess that reason has flown out the window now. Plus, like other parents, I'm at home trying to figure out how to supplement my own children&#…

Technology, 21st century teaching and learning, #edtech, engaging students by letting them use the device that seems almost parasitically attached to their hands... had enough yet? Well, those who know me know that I *DO* in fa…

For this month's Bright Ideas Link up, I've got a tech tip for you. Not too high tech, so don't get overly excited. :-) It's more of an old school pet peeve of mine. This is for anyone who uses PowerPoint slides t…

How do you follow blogs? If you just save them in a bookmark or favorites list and visit them every so often, that's one way that might have worked for you so far. As I know organization is on your mind, given that it's b…

It's been a little while since I participated in the Bright Ideas blog hop, but they really ARE a great way to share tips with teachers, so for this month, I want to share an idea I got from a Special Education colleague a f…

As an alternative to presentations in the classroom, consider Powtoon , which allows students to be 21st century creators of content related to inquiry-based projects and investigations in the classroom. Powtoon is a web-based to…

I'm so excited to be participating in February's fabulous blog hop, a monthly event dreamed up by fellow Canadian edublogger Shelley Gray at Teaching in the Early Years .  Here's my "bright idea" which r…

Happy new year... it's still January, so I can say that, right? In any case, this crazy balloon is still floating in my son's bedroom, so I feel I'm justified! We're in the midst of report card preparations,…

I've seen many teachers around me struggling to shift their thinking as it relates to having students perform authentic tasks in a second language class.  Most clearly understand that having a student fill in a "Conjugat…