Powerful Searching and Powerful Writing

8:30 - 9:00 AM
Coffee, Tea and Registration

9:00 AM  -  Noon
Powerful Searching
In this session, Jamie equips teachers with a basic toolkit of search strategies to help them cope with the info-glut that can be so frustrating to them and their students. Learn these ten strategies and you are on your way to information that is pertinent, cogent and worth saving:

  1. Question and draw before you search
  2. Use only the best
  3. Learn the syntax
  4. Learn the features
  5. Start big and broad
  6. Browse before grazing
  7. Go to the source
  8. Be discrete
  9. Cull your findings
  10. Be playful

In addition to good search logic, Jamie will introduce the group to the Deep Internet and resources not easily found with Google and other search engines.

10:30 - 10:45 Morning Tea

Noon  -  12:30 PM
Lunch
     
12:30 PM  -  3:30 PM
Powerful Writing & Thinking
Writing and thinking are interlinked. Jamie engages the group in seeing the interplay between mind mapping, the formation of ideas and the eventual composition of sentences and paragraphs to express complex ideas in a coherent and persuasive manner.

Learn how to equip students with the skills to make and communicate meaning even when the tasks are challenging and the answers are elusive, mysterious or puzzling. Jamie shows how new technologies can empower students to wrestle with difficult material and make up their own minds. He will illustrate the intersection between the composition of ideas, visual thinking, synthesis, comprehension and the invention of meaning. Central to the effort is grasping the relationships and interactions between wondering, pondering, comprehending and the other concepts in the diagram below:

2:00 - 2:15 Afternoon Tea