About
christopher_gil
Chris Giles
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Community Participant
Title:
Canvas Admin / TOSA / Canadian
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Sep 7, 2016 7:58:59 AM
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36
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Bio:
Chris is a Canadian living in Portland, where he busy creating and facilitating Professional Development and supporting teachers in the Beaverton School District. Chris has over 20 years of experience in education, including 15 years of teaching in Arizona, 2 years in Brazil and 2 years as the K12 Technology Integration Specialist at the Arizona Department of Education.
Chris enjoys working with educators, a role that allows him to combine his passion for promoting integration of technology in the classroom and facilitating technology rich staff development. His current role is the Canvas administrator for his district. Chris has presented at NCCE, ISTE and InstructureCon.
**Little known fact, Chris loves bargain hunting!
Most Liked Posts
I like and appreciate the effort to make this process streamline and efficient!!
If I can make a suggestion? What about a window to the right/left that shows Tags that may relate to the Theme Categor...
Students can now use the RTE like their teachers......FINALLY!!!!!!!!
so, based on @Katrina-Hess above Table comparison of MS, Google and LTIs, I've asked friends to help update the one below. I still love the Classic Google Cloud Docs Assignment and have a hard...
Hi everyone, with the "threat" of school closures due to the recent virus outbreak, what are some ways your schools/districts are preparing for this. What are some ways they are preparing to ...
So, again, thanks for working to make this process better!
after reading what @Charles_Barbour wrote (below) Wow, it might be suggested that an easier way to identify obviously bugs or trivial...
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So, again, thanks for working to make this process better!
after reading what @Charles_Barbour wrote (below) Wow, it might be suggested that an easier way to identify obviously bugs or trivial...
I like and appreciate the effort to make this process streamline and efficient!!
If I can make a suggestion? What about a window to the right/left that shows Tags that may relate to the Theme Categor...
hey @dlyons I am always open to a chat, you can of course contact me. Let me know if that works.
Chris
@dlyons thanks for the feedback, I know I am late to the icon party, but any plans to make icons made show up in user files (organized as such) so a user can grab an image rather than have to use ...
Hey there, its Chris from Beaverton. This year we have some Elm teacher pilot grading with Outcomes. We use an API to push targets from Synergy (our SIS) to Canvas and all teachers have to do is impor...
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