Tech Night Workshop

Thanks to all the participants of Invention Squad's Tech Night. It was great to learn how our teachers at Niagara Street are integrating the use of technological tools into their classes. We saw demonstrations of a Smartboard, Podcasts, Student Blogs and Wikis, iTouches and a pico-projector. Thanks to Principal Angela Marsh (who is a member of the Principals’ Technology Advisory Committee), Teacher-Librarian Kim Delamere and Grade 5/6 teacher Sophy Wong (who is a demonstration teacher for the TDSB for her use of MacBooks). Sephra Khan and the Niagara Eco Club made an excellent environmental display on the pros and cons of technology.

Some of you enjoyed Hands-on Activities provided (for free) by:

Howard Goldbach at our local Music Lesson Centre: the Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music.
The Children’s Technology Workshop who run afterschool programs and summer icamps at the JCC.

Robot-Building was facilitated by Brian Cartwright-who is just a friendly bloke that I recruited to help at the last minute.

John Willis and Jacob Pickup-who presented circuit building.

Mikael and Chloe Sandblom demonstrated the web-based design program SketchUp, Floorplanner and GoogleEarth. You can see what our kids came up with above (check out the grand addition on the School).

Other help was provided by Jalen Patel (who turns out to be a computer whizz), Marcus and Lily Mazzulla, Dianne Smith, Kathleen Pellow-Harris, Shaniq, Betty Stewart and Kimberly Sorokiwsky.

The Parent portion of this event, including the cyberbullyGot2Go talk, was funded by a Pro Grant from the Ontario Covernment. The School Council funded the Mad Science Show.