Oct. 7, 2019

Adding Virtual Professional Development into Your School’s Culture

Show Notes

In this episode of GotTechED the Podcast we discuss:

Characteristics of Good Virtual Professional Development
Virtual Professional Development Ideas
ISTE Presentation Application
Google Innovator Application Process

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Segment 1: Welcome Joe and Cara

- What do you do? Path to get there…
- Moved the GI and ISTE experience into the intro…
  - Cara Intro
    - About the Program
    - Requirements
    - What Application is like and what Cara has been involved with thus far since being accepted
    - @MissEduTech
  - Joe Intro
    - Experience at ISTE
    - ISTE PRESENTATION LINK
    - Designing Virtual PD EBook
    - About submitting to present versus People’s Choice
    - Biggest Takeaways
    - @jvalver_HTSD

Segment 2: Virtual PD Characteristics/Description

We will play a game for this segment… Cara vs. Joe Guess the Top 10 characteristics of virtual PD
- Before the game starts What is virtual professional development?
We will have you two guess the 10 characteristics and then we can elaborate on each… 8 are very easy and 2 are a bit more challenging… We made the characteristics broad and non-specific to make it easier.

Segment 3: Examples of Virtual PD Projects

- Cara/Joe experiences
  - Intro to Google Apps Online Course
  - Meet & Eat
***Planning stages of PD Playlist
Nick/Guise experiences
- Badge System
- Webinars (YouTube Live)
  - Hive Summit (Summer Virtual PD)
  - Cue Summits
  - Strobel Summit

- Voxer/Zoom Rich Czyz Author of 4’oclock Faculty and Secret Sauce
- Twitter Chat #OK2Ask, #satchat (Evolving Educators Scott Rocco, Brad Curry, Billy Krakower)
- Podcast Talk (Virtual Book Club)
- Learning Menus

Music Credits:

- The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/
- @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/

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This weeks question is:

Question: How can Virtual PD change PD practices in schools?

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