Christmas Carols in the Commons!

To celebrate the Christmas season and to showcase the talented staff and students @ St. Joe's, the Learning Commons hosted an afternoon of Christmas Carolling and Music on Dec. 12, 2014.

There were performances by Mme. Cayer's gr. 8 Immersion students, who sang carols in French and English.  Students also performed a duet of the Little Drummer Boy on flute.  Ms. Phillipe and her friend played a flute and harp duet that was divinely beautiful!  Ms. Murray, Ms. Oaks and students Wendel and Ramel collaborated to play a few songs on ukelele and guitar.

Introducing the Student and Staff Portal! Staff can reset student passwords and Students can change their own passwords!

The Learning Commons trained all gr. 7-10 students during the month of Nov-Feb on how to locate the student portal and use the password change tool to protect their Google account.

Step 1:  Go to sjh.ocsb.ca.



Step 2:  Select the Student Portal from the top tabs.



Step 3:  Change your Network Password from Welcome2FL to a new 7 character password with a number and a captiol.  The password authentication tool will ask you for your S##### and Default Password before letting you have access to the change tool.

Girl Rising Gender Matters Documentary from Hot Docs! Oct. 27-31st

During the week of Oct. 27-31s, the Learning Commons hosted a mini Hot Docs film festival.  All Gr. 7/8 English and Religion classes viewed the documentary about the right for girls around the world to have access to education.

Check out the website of the film here!

Official Trailer

Nepal

Ethiopia

Haiti

Peru

Genius Jags are using Go Animate!

Check out the blog @ geniusjags.blogspot.ca

Ms. Kelly's gifted students have created a blog to communicate their learning with each other.
Part of the initiative is to learn how to use the animated cartoon app Go Animate!

Students are planning to create videos for to help orientate the Gr. 6 Feeder Schools to St. Joseph in September.

Topics include, how to use a lock, tour of the school, introducing the teachers etc.

Google Apps for Education in the LC

 Nathan, Ryan and Spencer explain Vlogging to Gr. 7/8 Teachers over junior lunch in the Quiet Lab.

On October 3rd, four groups of students from 8, 9 and 12 visited the Derry Byrne Centre to teach junior students in gr. 3-6 about Google Apps for Education.  St. Joseph students offered these workshops:  "Learning to Drive", "Insightful Sites", "Vlogging 101" and "Google Tools for Communication".  Upon returning to St. Joe's,  the teens then taught teachers technology!!!