• Digmore Slide for Staff Meetings / Communications

    The Joint Tech Advisory Committee requested a set of slides that schools could use to advertise the various Digmore services. The slide deck below has a slide for secondary, middle, elementary and print. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mTSL94bWeqVJ4whzSYVTNJpxIbMEETV6KGF0ufD8yuk/edit?usp=sharing  

  • Check out the new link to World Book Dramatic Learning!

    Check out the new link to World Book Dramatic Learning – Classroom Plays and Reader’s Theatre in the Digmore e-library. The site offers: The Play’s the Thing: plays by grade level, subject and title Actor’s Corner: activities, monologues, skits and play starters Teach with Theatre: lesson plans, curriculum connections, assessment rubrics, and mini-inquiry projects  

  • Coding Talkers – First Nations Culture & Computational Thinking

    Students in Mr. Haddrell’s class at Charlie Lake Elementary School enjoyed participating in a lesson that connected our Canadian Aboriginal Code talkers history to computer language applications. Students learned more about the role these Canadian Aboriginal code talker soldiers played in the war effort by creating coded messages in Cree. After hearing code talker stories, […]

  • The Integration of Arts into Coding

    Students around the district have been highlighting their artistic skills when learning to code a story in the iPad coding app, Scratch Jr.  They are also gaining competency in  computational thinking skills and discovering more about the importance of procedural language. The Scratch Jr. app has ready-made background templates and characters that the students can […]

  • NexGen Codetalkers

    During World War II, First Nations soldiers from Canada who spoke Cree were recruited as top secret “code talkers”. Because soldiers from other countries did not know of the Cree language, they were unable to recognize and decipher the “coded” messages written or spoken in Cree. The code talkers were able to create “unbreakable” coded […]

  • ADST Lesson Ideas

    To support teachers with the new Applied Design, Skills & Technology (ADST) curriculum, we have created a Google Site that features lesson samples and resource links. Please contact Laurie Petrucci (lpetrucci@prn.bc.ca) or Glen Longley (glongley@prn.bc.ca) if you have lesson samples to share. ADST Lesson Ideas https://sites.google.com/prn.bc.ca/adst-lesson-ideas/home  “A turning point came for me in the early 1960s, […]

  • New eBooks

    We’ve ordered some new eBooks for Destiny Discover (aka Follett Shelf) that will be in the catalogue in the next few days – See the ebooks section at http://www.prn.bc.ca/?page_id=225 for more info on how grade 5-12 students can access our ebook catalogue. The Breadwinner – single license (only one checkout at a time) Catching Spring – unlimited […]

  • K-5 Digital Literacy Scope and Sequence

    Students need to develop skills in digital literacy from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to become more fluent in the areas of internet safety, digital self-image, digital citizenship, copyright laws, media management and information curation, as well as ethical considerations such as cyberbullying. Technology fosters the ability for children to tackle complex tasks, access learning resources […]

  • Citing References

    When you see a painting by Van Gogh, you know it is a Van Gogh. Although, sometimes when we see a piece of art, it is necessary to look at the signature to discover who created the work. Often, artists create pieces that are inspired from other artist’s work as well. However, it is still […]

  • 198 new Learn360 titles added in January

    198 new titles have been added to the Learn360 catalogue. Teachers and students can access Learn360 at school without an account or password. To access from home you will need to create an account while at school. Here are four of the new titles that were recently added!