JULY 11, 2011 SUBMITTED BY LEE RICKWOOD, WHAT’S YOUR TECH.CA Ottawa high school students are developing smartphone apps that can be downloaded from iTunes, taking the first step in what’s intended to be a long and rewarding career in high tech. As tenth-graders, they were having a lot of fun with app development. Now it’s ...
Mobile Apps and Multi-player Games come from Ottawa’s High Schools
Posted on 11 July 2011
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Mobile apps and multi-player games coming from Ottawa’s high school halls – Grade 3 students the customers for Grades 10 to 12 developers
Posted on 11 July 2011
JUNE 16, 2011 – EXCHANGEMAGAZINE.COM Classroom inspiration and industry collaboration offered as a solution to Canada’s looming 106,000-employee ICT labour gap Ottawa – By pairing Grade 10 to 12 “software developers” with grade 3 “customers”, the Ottawa High School Technology Program is offering a solution to Canadian organizations desperately seeking to fill 106,000 new technology ...
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How Mentoring Works – Dan Menard’s Blog
Posted on 12 November 2010
Welcome back to this semester’s OCRI updates. Back in October, we looked at how to kick off a project. Today we’ll talk about learning programming. Last Monday I visited All Saints High School here in Ottawa. The students there are creating Flash-based games for a class of grade 3 students at a neighbouring grade school. ...
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Innovation Cuts Like a Knife (Literally!)
Posted on 12 November 2010
Keynote speaker and author John Sweeney realizes that a 12-inch steel bladed knife in the forearm is not the best way to illustrate innovation. Last week, the long standing knife throwing routine that has punctuated Sweeney’s speeches for several years went amiss, coming to an abrupt and painful end in an ambulance. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) ...
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School Breakfast Program and Ottawa Food Bank on Oldies 1310
Posted on 08 November 2010
November 8 2010, OLDIES 1310 NEWS (05:30) (CIWW-AM), JOSH GILMAN THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK CONCEDES THAT MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE GOING HUNGRY. [OTTAWA CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION]
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Ottawa children going hungry
Posted on 07 November 2010
November 7, Ottawa Sun, Kelly Roche In this year’s World Vision gift catalogue, there’s an option to feed kids in our own backyard and the money will benefit a program for hungry families in Vancouver. Many might not think our kids are so badly off that they need to be sponsored through World Vision. “Communities ...
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School boards join forces and welcome innovative assistive technology support
Posted on 21 October 2010
October 21, 2010, EMC News Ottawa’s four school boards – Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Ottawa Catholic School Board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario and Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est – have joined forces through OCRI to develop an innovative suite of resources to support the implementation of computer-based assistive technologies (AT) ...
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OCRI: Fall 2010 Kickoff Alternate title: The Value of a Project Kick-off
Posted on 15 October 2010
Friday, October 15th, 2010, Dan Menard , BLOG Welcome to the first in a series of posts about the work I’m doing this semester with OCRI. I’ll have an update like this every two weeks until the end of January, usually on Fridays (this one is a day late). Every year, before we go into ...
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School boards welcome innovative assistive technology support
Posted on 13 October 2010
OTTAWA, ON, October 13, 2010 – Ottawa’s four school boards – Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, Ottawa Catholic School Board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario and Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est – have joined forces through OCRI to develop an innovative suite of resources to support the implementation of computer-based assistive technologies ...
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Les conseils scolaires d’Ottawa entament l’Initiative d’appui des technologies d’aide
Posted on 13 October 2010
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (13 octobre 2010) - Les quatre conseils scolaires d’Ottawa, soient le conseil scolaire du district d’Ottawa-Carleton, le conseil scolaire catholique d’Ottawa, le Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario et le Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est, ont joint leurs efforts à ceux de l’OCRI dans le but de développer une série ...