Global EdCon Smackdown Resources
Hosted by Heidi Hutchison a 5th grade teacher in Baltimore
This was really interesting. There were approximately 16 people participating from all over the world including Honduras, Australia, Mexico and Indonesia. The session was modeled after the Ed Camp “unconference” idea.
Heidi created a Google Doc and we all linked into it. At that point, we added our Twitter handle and added links to resources and tools that we wanted to share.
Heidi went down the list and had each of us share ideas about our links. If you did not have mic capabilities you could just type. Most people spoke to share their ideas. Finally, Heidi is going to create a compilation of the resources and tweet them to us. I will post the tweet here when I get it.
Overall, I felt this was a fun way to collaborate. I think it would be better, if I knew ahead what the expectations were going to be. Our district attempted to do a collaboration across the district as part of a early release professional development. We used sticky notes and then the notes were compiled and supposed to be shared with us at a later date and reviewed by the department chairs.
Jenn, I too found the Global Education Conference to be a fun way to collaborate with others from around the world. I like the fact that the sessions were recorded and can be reviewed at anytime. I believe that this format can also be beneficial for professional development for teachers within a district or even a school. By putting together a Google Doc, Wiki, LiveBinder, with audio and/or video, teachers can access anytime they want and revisited it as needed. I just wish I had more time this week to "attend" more the sessions offered at this conference (this week was the end of our trimester)!
ReplyDeleteA way to do this without using stickie notes would be through a web 2.0 tool called padlet. It is free and anyone can make one. You can make an account and make the wall, and then everyone adds their information to the padlet on a stickie. It is awesome.
ReplyDeletewe used padlet in our district in which each elementary school took the SBAC and we gave feedback about specific aspects of the test (i.e. the content, format, what we definitely need to teach these kids before taking the test) it was a great way to share quickly and focus what we needed to focus on. Now... we'll see if ANYONE actually reads the posts!!!
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