Learning is Change

Alex Magaña, I don’t know if you have a lot of context for the Science Leadership Academy in Philly, but I think…

 

Alex Magaña, I don’t know if you have a lot of context for the Science Leadership Academy in Philly, but I think what their principal has to say might be valuable to you and to the rest of us as we struggle to find the vision for many of our schools.

To anyone, what do you think of his vision?

Originally shared by Chris Lehmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdsNK0CAZI&feature=autoshare

One of my favorite principals talking about what makes his school special.

 

One of my favorite principals talking about what makes his school special. I particular find the community of learners (both teachers and students) to be incredibly important for making this type of learning environment happen. What do you hear?

Originally shared by Chris Lehmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdsNK0CAZI&feature=autoshare//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js

What I'm Using: Free and Beautiful Stock Photography

I ran across this wonderful list on Medium, and I immediately opened up each one in a new tab. They are wonderful. Special thanks to Dustin Senos for this list. 

Stock photos that don’t suck — Design / UX — Medium

What I'm Learning: #PaperTweets

Recently, I have found the need to lower the barrier to entry for people to use twitter, construct tweets, and learn how to create a social conversation with one another. I know that other folks have done this, so I went a searching and this is what I found:

Let me know if you have used a Paper Tweets protocol with students or teachers and I will add it to this post.

An Introduction to #2minPD (a PD movement started by @mpelochino)

I am so excited to be a part of the global movement started by Melisa Pelochino to reach 1 MM educators worldwide with 2 minute pd videos on topics that we are passionate about.

I will be creating a few over the next couple weeks, but if you would like to take part, this is what they can look like:

1. Intro:
Your name
Where you are from (city, state, country if not from US)
"Welcome to another 2 Minute PD"

2. What:
What are you sharing?

3. Why:
Why does it matter or why is it important?

4. How:
Concrete steps on how to implement this in the classroom. "do this…" or "try this.."

5. At least one visual.

(No more than 2:30 in length.)

Everything else is up to you. You can be as simple (talking head) or as complicated (animation, music, etc.) as you would like.

Please upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo and include #2minPD in the title and then send Melissa a link.

Project Roundtable: Using Video Creation and Sharing to Shift Instruction

Thank you to everyone who attended or watched the archive. It was a great conversation and we really were able to focus on shifting practice.

Next Steps:
1. Keep on collaborating in the planning doc: http://bit.ly/videoroundtable

2. Reflect upon the session and then apply for the Project Roundtable Badge: http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/353/ 

3. Make your own Roundtables: http://bit.ly/createroundtable

Whether it is the creation of a couple screencasts, the capturing a lesson in your classroom, or simply reflecting upon your practice, the process of creating and sharing those videos have the power to shift practice and possibilities for teachers and students across the board.

*Roundtable Purpose:* Video in the classroom can either be an empowering force for student and teacher voice or it can be a mind-numbing expansion of the lecture into bite-size chunks without deeper learning. It is our goal in this roundtable to explore the former.

*Roundtable Audience:*
1. Any teacher that is interested in using screencasts, classroom/lesson capture, and/or other teacher-created video within their classroom to shift their practice.
2. Any teacher/leader that is interested in furthering their reflective practice and collaboration in using and sharing video.