Conference of Independent Schools (CIS) Ontario Techfest (2024) Upper Canada College | The CIS TechFest conference brought together over 130 attendees from 17 schools. As a lead facilitator, Jonathan played a key role in two of the conference's two important sessions: "IT Leadership" and "IT Tools". Each session unlocked expertise and leadership from his colleagues to help make the conference a success. |
Going the Distance: Becoming an Ironman (2023) Greenwood College School | This presentation shares a personal journey intertwining professional life in IT with personal achievements in endurance sports, emphasizing perseverance, mindfulness, and the importance of support networks. |
Get to Know Our Staff: IT Team (2022) Greenwood College School | When schools closed across the province in March 2020 due to COVID-19, Greenwood’s IT Team instantly understood that they had to act quickly. “We knew students and staff would need access to all of the services they depend on at school,” |
Greenwood College School successfully combines in-class and online instruction with Kahoot! EDU (2020) | Readers explore how Greenwood College School used Kahoot! with creative examples that helped support, energize and empower teachers at Greenwood College School in their “HyFlex” blended learning model. | |
Greenwood - Data Driven Conversations around Complex Issues (2019) | More than ever schools are dealing with complex issues within and outside of the classroom. These complex issues are often incorporated into a strategic plan to help move the organization forward... | |
How our school is personalizing learning through co-teaching (2017) | What if we maintain the student-teacher ratio by adding a second teacher to a larger classroom space to promote various groupings and engagement between students and teachers? | |
Learning Technology @ Greenwood (2015) | Presentation at the 5th Annual Summit on Education Technology Strategies for K-12 Schools, how a school can strategically align technology to leverage the school's vision on personalized learning | |
Greenwood Gives Intel Straight A’s | Intel’s case study looks at how Greenwood's technology in the classroom, on premises, and in the cloud can evolve a one-to-one laptop program to empower student learning. | |
Introducing the Blended Learning Model (2011) | Presentation to school's board members and senior leadership on introducing a Blended Learning to the school's current one-to-one laptop program. | |
Beyond Wired: using Web 2.0 technologies in and out of the classroom (2008) | With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies there is so much more available online to help teachers network with their students and (perhaps just as importantly) with one another. These technologies are changing the way our students interact with the world, and they are also transforming education. | |
Going Beyond Content Delivery: Learn Best Practices (2004) | Learn examples on how teachers use established pedological classroom practices to an online learning environment that engages students and moves learning beyond the classroom. | |
Successful Implementation of an Online Learning System: A Few Bumps but No Bruises (2003) | Moving from a home grown learning portal to an enterprise Learning Management System (LMS) required communication, planning, testing, training, and buy-in. | |
Math at Work: Basing a Career on Base Two (2000) | Have you ever wondered, “When will I use this in the real world?” Kris Kasias, a computer programming consultant, uses the mathematics that he learned in school on the job. Kris works with computers and deals with numbers and p |