I was meeting on Friday with Andrea Hernandez, our Director of Teaching & Learning (formally “21st Century Learning” – we are trying to message that “21st Century Learning” is synonymous with “Teaching & Learning”), who chided me for not role modeling what was expected of all our faculty. Namely, where was my evidence for my own summer learning!
I blogged, here, about our faculty’s commitment to summer learning. I blogged, here, about my own. Silvia Tolisano, our 21st Century Learning Consultant (yes, I recognize the conflict with the above parenthesis; it is an imperfect world we live in!) wrote an amazing blog post on the edJEWcon website presenting a mosaic of our entire faculty’s summer learning. You can click on it, here, and I have insisted it move to the front of the website. It is a great post.
There is great diversity in how teachers presented evidence of their student learning. One methodology that inspired me, pushes me a bit outside my comfort zone…so it is probably a good one for me to experiment with – vlogging. It sounds simple, instead of sitting at my desk, writing, writing, writing and writing, I can simply look into the camera and speak. But when the light goes red…so do I! Not so easy…and you’ll be able to tell when you watch it. But I did try! [Another problem…I’ve become so accustomed to hyperlinking, that each time I mentioned a name, I mentally paused to hyperlink!]
[NOTE: I apologize if watching me rock back and forth in my chair made anyone seasick!]
Thanks for suffering through my first (and possibly last!) vlog post. As we enter the season of repentance, you will surely find it in your hearts to forgive me. 🙂
A Sweet & Happy New Year to All!
Jon,
I congratulate you on your first video blog. Again, I admire your willingness to walk the talk and be transparent about it. We need more examples from administrators, who are willing to model this kind of “vulnerable” position…to learn by trying, learn by testing and learn by failing too…
Your show and tell of the books that you read, are reading and are still planning on reading is a great example. I am calling for a meme from other administrators and educators to share their book reviews via a video. My visual (not necessarily auditory brain) would request to embed the title/author of the mentioned books in the credit slide, possibly with a QR code too, for easy access to further reviews/book store, etc. 🙂
I do wonder when one vlogs vs. blogs…what criteria would one use to determine?
Congratulations on your first vlog. I thought it was very infomational and another great way to share what your are planning and thinking.