{"id":3162,"date":"2014-10-27T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2015-02-09T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T16:16:10","slug":"psa-day-blogathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2014\/10\/psa-day-blogathon\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA Day – BLOGATHON"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"network34\"<\/a>As a professional, reflection takes up a large part of our lives. Active choices stem from reflective moments steering our professional learning. \u00a0Ultimately that learning reflects back into our classrooms with students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We were privileged to spend Friday with a group of K-12 teachers and student teachers at Burnaby Central. Titled “Blogathon<\/strong><\/em><\/span>“, it provided an opportunity to experience the world of social media through\u00a0our sd41 blogs. Goals of the participants ranged from a basic understanding of communicating using social media, how it could be used to have students dialogue with each other (increasing authentic literacy skills), how it flattens the classroom by inviting experts and other schools (critical thinking), how to share information with parents and community (green friendly world), how to use blogs as a vehicle for formative assessment, how to integrate various web tools as teaching\/learning workflow, how digital citizenship plays a key role today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the basics, we looked at images and resizing (even the new copyright changes), using widgets to extend information [News Announcement, T-Countdown, Google Language Translator, MailPoet (as subscription), Gravity Forms (surveys)…]
\n*Written instructions can be found on our blog, under WEB RESOURCES > BLOGS > HOW TO<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Throughout the day, participants explored, created, extended comfort levels as well as shared their experiences and challenged personal thinking. What vividly stood out was the collaborative nature of learning; fully hands-on, dynamic, open, questioning and connecting. \u00a0Comfort was felt in jumping over and helping others – result was empowerment of others as well as a spark that the ‘helper’ knew more than they thought. \u00a0And yes, there were frustrating moments when the technology didn’t work. \u00a0The\u00a0experience served to provide other avenues of learning. Patience was a virtue and we had lots of chances to practice that.
\nSome snippets of overheard conversations: <\/span><\/p>\n