Reflection on:
Personal Professional Development
“It’s a Small World After All!â€
by Judy O’Connell
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing Judy’s Web 2.0 story. It illustrates the power of Web 2.0 and how we do indeed have “a small world in the makingâ€.
Every educator that I know who Blogs or Podcasts feels similarly to what Judy is talking about. I know I do. The world has gotten much smaller, and yet, larger as well. With Blogs and Podcasting, I am no longer limited to my immediate colleagues, but have a larger pool of folks who are working on similar projects and professional development.
When Judy talks about tapping into those “key blogsâ€, surely that’s how most of us got hooked. I know I still prefer podcasts because I can easily get my professional development on the way to and from school each day, in the car. I still assert that some of the best professional development that I’ve received has come through blogs and podcasts.
This k12 Online Conference is, I believe, one of the first arenas that actually offers hours and graduate credits, which could be used towards something like, professional hours for certification renewal. I believe that blogs and podcasts will increasingly be used/accepted as a means to gain credits and hours. This increases the value of this learning for it offers many more possibilities than one would be able to have by getting away from school for 1 or 2 workshops a year.
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1 response so far ↓
1 Jo McLeay // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:27 am
Hi Bob, it’s great that you are reflecting on the k12 conference at this stage. By now I had forgotten a lot of the excitement in the minutae of daily living, but your reflection brought it all back. It like Jeff Utecht pointed out. Eventually it all links up and adds to the stream of knowledge. I hope that makes sense. It’s late afternoon on Friday after a week from Hell, including a bushfire scare that kept our students in for a short time after normal dismissal time. So thanks.
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