Proof of Twitter Chats:

I participated in #blogchat on Sunday 9/25. It was mostly a beginners chat about how to get started in blogging and what to blog about. What platform to use. It wasn’t overly useful for me as I blog a fair amount already. This chat also doesn’t use the Q# and A# format when asking and answering questions which makes it difficult to keep up with questions and answers. The moderator commented that “we are not so formal here”.

Participated in #edchat on Tuesday 9/27/16. Topic was “Should digital literacy be a job requirement for educators and how would that be defined?”

Stopped posting as discussion morphed into discussion about Minecraft and I don’t use Minecraft. I didn’t get much out of this chat either because everyone said yes with no real counterpoint or how you would require teachers to demonstrate their digital literacy.

Participated in #edtechchat on Tuesday 10/10/16. The topic was on ebooks. I didn’t participate as much as I would have liked but we don’t use many ebooks in medicine and the ones we use are mostly e versions of a printed text. We don’t ask medical students to create much and much of the discussion was about getting students to create ebooks.

Participated in a chat (#educoach) on Wednesday 10/12 about peer observation and walk throughs. This was interesting as I received a grant to do some instructional coaching at my institution. I got a few resources I might be able to use during the chat.

Proof of Webinar participation:I participated in a Webinar on 10/8 on “Confessions of a Learning Revolutionary”. Steve Hargadon will talk about why each successive wave of educational excitement, usually based on a new technology with promises of great change, never really brings the learning revolution we had hoped it would--and how we might break this cycle and rethink educational change. During the second half of the hour he’ll introduce special guest Jonathan Fritzel, and together they will describe a “hack your education club” for students that teachers and librarians can set up at their school to help students learn to take charge of their own learning and life journeys.

The webinar was interesting but trying to keep up with the side chat and the presenter is daunting. I lost track of them at times. I did get some good resources to review at a later time.

I participated in a webinar on Thursday 10/13 on engaging assessment. Below is some of my backchannel discussion. This was an interesting webinar because the facilitator stopped periodically to allow the participants (who were divided into rooms) to discuss a topic. They demonstrated a tool called ClassFlow to use for assessment. I learned of some tech based formative assessment tools like socrative, ClassFlow, ARS clickers, Google forms and creating exit tickets, and there were a couple of others that I missed.