First of all, I want to apologize for the mix up on the dates for the first event. We will be live on February 27th, 2017 at 8pm EST with AJ Juliani and John Spencer. We will be talking about their book as well, “Launch“, which is a wonderful compliment to “The Innovator’s Mindset“. To find the YouTube Live session, just bookmark this page and it will be hosted below.
If you miss it, do not worry, because it will be recorded on YouTube (link will still be on this post) and we will also post as a podcast. It is always great if you can watch live as we look for questions from the #IMMOOC Hashtag, but you can also ask questions ahead of time on this form.
Every week, we encourage you to blog about topics from the chapters so you can make your own connections to the content. Please share these to the #IMMOOC hashtag on Twitter, or on the Facebook group, or both. What I encourage is that you write one post a week, and comment on three others from the group. People appreciate knowing that someone is reading and commenting. If you want to take it even a step further, take someone’s post, pull out a section, link and reference it, and make your own connections. I find what inspires me the most to blog is reading other people’s blogs, and you can see the connection I made to Sheila Vick’s (who participated in the first IMMOOC round and is still blogging strong) post in my most recent blog.
Here are some prompts for the first week (please feel free to use the images in your own post):
Blog Prompts (Week 1)
- What do you see as the purpose of education? Why might innovation be crucial in education?
- “Change is an opportunity to do something amazing.” How are you embracing change to spur innovation in your own context?
3. If you started a school from scratch, what would you see as necessary, and what would you take out from what we currently do?
4. Your choice from the book on the YouTube Live session.
To make it easier, here is a checklist of things to do this week.
Week 1 “To-Do”
- Read the Introduction of “The Innovator’s Mindset” (We start off the week with light reading)
- Blog on your thoughts on the Introduction and share to #IMMOOC hashtag and Facebook group. If you are able to finish by Thursday, March 2, you may be highlighted in the blog.
- Comment to three other blog posts from participants this week.
- Participate in the Twitter chat on Wednesday at 9pm EST. (Check the #IMMOOC hashtag to do this)
- If you have not shared your selfie to the #IMMOOC hashtag do so soon as we will announce winners on March 5.
We all understand that people are busy and that you might not be able to do all of the above, so it is important for you to pick what is important. I will tell you this from my own experience of participating in the past, as well as leading this, the more you put into it, the more you will get out of it.
I look forward to learning from you and other this week. Thanks for your participation!
Sincerely,
George Couros
