As mentioned, I've been enjoying the design aspects that are included in the program. This focus has expanded my design skills, as an artist and musician, creativity has always been a part of my life. Thinking about education from a design perspective has made teaching more exciting, as it is all a creative process within the medium of the mind. I know that this domain has been developed by the program. My other interest in education is around Social Emotional Learning (SEL), this domain is less of a focus within the program, but I've adapted to search for instructional models and design concepts that bring SEL into everyday instruction, i.e. how does the flipped learning model support students' SEL?
I think that best way to support and be supported by my cohort is to exchange peer review of our capstone projects; a beta testing phase so to speak. Most of the teachers work and live in Napa, so I do not expect to meet face to face, but offering and receiving comments around my prototype would be highly valuable. I will work to support the cohort by offering resources to my peers when I think it will benefit them. I often do this in the chat box within zoom, if a I have something I can offer to a peer. I will continue to do my best with the Zoom format, but I will admit that the format is a challenge. I sometimes use my Chromebook on Zoom, unfortunately with this version I can only see 3-4 of the cohort at a time. This has made it hard to speak up without overlapping with others. Sometimes this is frustrating, especially knowing how much I enjoyed discussion sections in my in-person classes. Face to face brings so much more information, speaking in zoom, feels very similar to 12 people on the same phone call trying to have a discussion. This has been a hard part of the 2 hours zoom sessions, there isn't much natural flow of actual discussions, mostly it works out to each person sharing their point one at a time, I wonder how we could actually facilitate discussion in the group? Sometimes this happens, but I have never witnessed more than two sequential exchanges. I think the format works well with the group, so I will stick in there (of course). Regardless, I think the cohort is full of skilled educators, I've enjoyed the group for the past year.
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Todd
6/11/2017 07:42:43 am
Hi Zack,
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Jennifer Wade
6/12/2017 12:45:28 am
Zack,
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