Professional Development Collaboratory Wiki: Extended Summary
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Definition of Professional Development
... an artifact or activity, a process or product?
... different to, or comprehensive of:
- community development?
- curriculum development?
- economic development?
- educational innovation?
- faculty development?
- materials development?
- personal development?
- scholarship of teaching and learning?
- technological development?
Definition of a Professional Development Collaboratory
A professional development collaboratory may share fundamental characteristics of other collaboratories including, but not necessarily limited to: organized, rule-governed processes for socialization, instrument (tools) and data sharing, contextualization, and collaboration--either consequent or subsequent to a collaboratory's (collective) organization, but certainly consequent to its governance if indeed governance is taken for granted. Such a collaboratory stretches the concept of laboratory to embrace endeavours other than "geographically distributed scientific research" (Wikpedia, Collaboratory, Summary, ¶2; 2008.08.25) in order to promote activities and interactions, conceivably experimental, yet conducive to evolutionary and sustainable professional behaviours.
How do we find out about Pro-D opportunities?
- Listings in trusted online communities (ETUG, SCoPE, WikiEducator, CIDER)
- Direct recommendations from colleagues
- Identify a gap in own learning, then seek out pro-d
- Google searches for specific topics, activities, resources
- Follow leads from individuals in our networks (using a variety of tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Tags, Ning, shared calendars)
- Lurking close by those who are passionate about teaching and learning
- Advertising on home institution websites
- Mailing lists
- Websites
- Compilations created by others
- Event services/tools, such as The Conference Calendar, Facebook Events, Upcoming, Google shared calendar
- Online libraries
- Professionalizing Post-Secondary Teaching: 2009
- Telementoring: Dates TBA
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- ...-ing
How do we make the time?
- Personal Management of Participation in Social Networks: Oct 27-Nov 9, 2008
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- ...
How do we manage the information?
- Use Netvibes or other aggregation tools to bring in RSS feeds, calenar events, social networking channels, bookmark tags, etc. -- one stop shopping overview of PD developments in a given area
- Build... a Virtual Museum on the History of EdTech: October 1-21, 2008
- (add RSS feed from future wiki about here?)
- ...
Exemplary Pro-D Websites
- SCoPE: a Moodle site with scheduled discussions
- Examples though links (and possibly feeds) in other §§:
- ... opportunities for what?
- How do we make the time?
- How do we manage the information?
- ... opportunities for what?
- Examples though links (and possibly feeds) in other §§:
- WIMBA: a commercial site with Distinguished Lecturer sessions
Guiding Principles
- Keep it clean and simple so that it's easy to find information.
- We need indicators of quality/ reputation
- Origin of pro-d events not important
- Fees are appropriate if it looks like the gains are there
- Consider that not everybody has time for F2F events at home institutions
- Taking pro-d at other institutions has advantages
- Best recommendations are from people who have experienced PD themselves
- Build on what already exists - don't duplicate
Essential Elements
- quick, easy access to information
- personalize/customize
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