Periwinkle, our traveling mascot penguin has had a busy year since his departure in January. He has seen educators and administrators shifting and transforming their 21st century practices through our year-long professional learning journey. He’s also had some time to play, see sights, and even get into a little trouble along the way. Periwinkle’s latest adventure Periwinkle had quite a time visiting Beverley Acres Public School in...
Periwinkle, the official mascot for Powerful Learning Practice (PLP) has had a busy year since his departure in January. He has seen first hand how PLPeeps (educators and administrators who participate in our year long professional development plan) are shifting and transforming their 21st century practices. He has attended numerous staff meetings and classes (both face-to-face and virtually) where he’s witnessed educators,...
Periwinkle is the official mascot of Powerful Learning Practice (PLP). Powerful Learning Practice offers a long-term, job-embedded professional development program that provides a unique opportunity for educators to work together collaboratively to understand 21st Century learning environments. So why does PLP need a mascot? PLPeeps (educators and administrators who participate in our year long professional development plan) collaborate and...
For those of you playing our ConnectU Penguin vs. KangarooCulmination ARG, here is Clue 3 Clue 3: Computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Comment with your favorite smartphone example of...
Save the Penguin! That was the quest of attendees of ECOO (Education Computing Organization of Ontario) conference 2011 in Ontario, Canada, who participated in our alternate reality game. The game placed our beloved PLP mascot, the PLP Penguin, in danger. He had been kidnapped by an irate teacher on his way to ECOO. This teacher expressed in a series of ransom videos that she was tired of waiting for “shift” to happen and that the...
Your votes are in, and we’ve got a new, adorable PLP mascot. The PLP Penguin! This little guy will be chill’n with PLPeeps in every community. Be prepared for penguin sightings as he travels the world and shows up in posts on the PLP blog, Facebook and Twitter. Who knows, he may even show up at your door! Our playful penguin has a name, but we’re not ready to tell you everything just yet. Follow his adventures, and you’ll learn...
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