Learning is Change

What I'm Learning: Empowering Lifelong Learners through Micro-Credentials

I really like the context here for why badges and micro-credentials matter for all of us. 

Micro-Credentials: Empowering Lifelong Learners | Edutopia

My father is a former police officer who took up photography when he retired. A few months ago, I asked him when he was going to try a new hobby. “Aren’t you an expert already?”

I joked, pointing to his overbooked calendar of professional photography appointments. “I have enough videos I still need to watch that I could fill up eight hours a day for the next four years,” he said incredulously. “I don’t have time to learn a new hobby yet.”

Based upon  the work of this session:…

 

Based upon  the work of this session: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D4e4sLMDVJDM3Tx2d6E-KpZ1CHwnHMf-kCVKeqGETWI/edit 

You have been invited based upon your essential insights on this topic. Please try to prioritize this session if at all possible. We will be discussing what expectations and indicators we should have for a professional learning framework for “Ongoing PD structures.” 

Goals:

To determine a set of best practice indicators for Ongoing PD structures

To establish a common understanding of Ongoing and Community-based Professional Learning

Agenda:

Essential Question: What are the elements of high quality Ongoing Professional Learning (not one-time sessions)?

Outline a rubric for the support of those elements within a collaborative document.

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Thank you so much for attending this session. It was wonderful!

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Thank you so much for attending this session. It was wonderful!

Things to do to keep the conversation going:

1. Keep on collaborating in our shared google doc: http://bit.ly/pldaily

2. Submit your reflection for a badge: http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/388/ 

3. Start your own Roundtable for your district/school: http://bit.ly/createroundtable

Roundtable Purpose:

The purpose of this roundtable is to consider the role that Professional Learning plays in our lives as teachers and leaders. It is also to explore how we can make PD an expected and welcome part of every day.

Roundtable Audience:

1. Teachers and Leaders who are interested in innovating within current PD structures in order to make sure that all adult learners are making choices for their own development.

2. Teachers and Leaders who are interested in devising new PD structures for schools and districts in order to better support shifts in practice.

3. Stakeholders out of the classroom and schools who are actively devising new PD structures like #2minPD to help support teachers and leaders in the field. 

What I'm Using: My Story Editor

This is a really nice chrome extension for creating visual, but simple, stories. I’m excited that this can work offline as well. Also, there is a cat on their App page, so there is that.

Chrome Web Store – My Story Editor

Did you ever wish you could tell a simple, interactive and illustrated Story? My Story Editor is a simple Chrome Packaged App that lets you create a story within seconds.

Around Colorado, nearly six thousand former attendees and supporters of the InnEdCo summer conference will receive…

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Around Colorado, nearly six thousand former attendees and supporters of the InnEdCo summer conference will receive their invitation postcards in the next two weeks. Upon receiving their postcard, many people will likely look at the pretty picture on the front and use the information and web links to start planning their summer at Copper Mountain, but then what? Some may end up on the refrigerator to save the date, but most will end up in the recycling bin or trash can.

Well, we believe our humble little postcard deserves a better fate than this.

So, we are launching #PostcardSelfies this year to show just how many places these postcards have been. When you receive your postcard in the mail, don’t let it sit in a stack of papers or fall into the trash. Bring it with you and take a picture with it! Show your postcard a good time.

You can bring it to your school and pose with a bunch of innovative teachers. You could take it to the top of a fourteener and take a picture with the sunset in the background. You could even give your postcard some arms and legs, and see how it wants to explore your house.

Whatever you do with it, take a picture. Then, post your picture to Twitter with the hashtag #PostcardSelfies or to Facebook on the InnEdCo page (https://www.facebook.com/InnEdCo). Each picture you post gives you a chance to win a $25 gift card to the app store of your choice. The winning pictures will be chosen based upon the total number of retweets or likes each receives, so make sure your friends see your awesome picture too! Don’t worry, we will have multiple winners in different weeks, so your picture can be anytime from now until the beginning of the conference.

For those of you who are worried you won’t receive a postcard but would like to take a picture for #PostcardSelfies, here is a printable version (or just put it on an iPad and take a picture of that if you want to save paper): http://bit.ly/innedco14postcard.

Our first winner will be chosen on April 21st, so start taking those #PostcardSelfies as soon as you get yours. Thank you for being such a wonderful part of InnEdCo, and we look forward to seeing you this summer!

http://bit.ly/innedco14postcard

#Postcardselfies for Everyone (cross posted from InnEdCo.org)

Around Colorado, nearly six thousand former attendees and supporters of the InnEdCo summer conference will receive their invitation postcards in the next two weeks. Upon receiving their postcard, many people will likely look at the pretty picture on the front and use the information and web links to start planning their summer at Copper Mountain, but then what? Some may end up on the refrigerator to save the date, but most will end up in the recycling bin or trash can.


Well, we believe our humble little postcard deserves a better fate than this.


So, we are launching #PostcardSelfies this year to show just how many places these postcards have been. When you receive your postcard in the mail, don’t let it sit in a stack of papers or fall into the trash. Bring it with you and take a picture with it! Show your postcard a good time.


You can bring it to your school and pose with a bunch of innovative teachers. You could take it to the top of a fourteener and take a picture with the sunset in the background. You could even give your postcard some arms and legs, and see how it wants to explore your house.


Whatever you do with it, take a picture. Then, post your picture to Twitter with the hashtag #PostcardSelfies or to Facebook on the InnEdCo page (https://www.facebook.com/InnEdCo). Each picture you post gives you a chance to win a $25 gift card to the app store of your choice. The winning pictures will be chosen based upon the total number of retweets or likes each receives, so make sure your friends see your awesome picture too! Don’t worry, we will have multiple winners in different weeks, so your picture can be anytime from now until the beginning of the conference.


For those of you who are worried you won’t receive a postcard but would like to take a picture for #PostcardSelfies, here is a printable version (or just put it on an iPad and take a picture of that if you want to save paper): http://bit.ly/innedco14postcard.


Our first winner will be chosen on April 21st, so start taking those #PostcardSelfies as soon as you get yours. Thank you for being such a wonderful part of InnEdCo, and we look forward to seeing you this summer!


What I'm Learning: Creating an RSS feed from Gmail using Google Apps Scripts

While this is a very specific purpose, I am interested in the idea of using email to create content. Just think about a filter in gmail that could push to an rss feed. This means, any time someone (or some service) sent an email on a given topic, it could be available to anyone who could subscribe to the feed. The social nature of email could get very interesting.

Creating a ‘full fat’ RSS feed for Google Gmail labels (enabling some dark social judo) | MASHe

In this post I want to cover three things. First I want to introduce a little app I’ve developed which allows you to create a RSS feed for any of your Gmail labels (with the option to remove certain links – useful if you don’t want others unsubscribing you from mailing lists). Secondly I explain how it was made and how you can use it yourself. Finally I want to discuss how this could be used in an open course environment, utilising the vast processing power from services like Twitter and reusing there target marketing emails to your benefit with a bit of ‘dark social judo’.