We appreciate all of the people who have signed up for the #IMMOOC, and as a show of appreciation, Dave Burgess Consulting and IMpress Books will be giving away some prizes.
You will have the opportunity to win three books of your choice from the Dave Burgess Consulting library, so if you want to be entered, please do the following:
Tweet a selfie of you holding the book “The Innovator’s Mindset,” “Learner-Centred Innovation,” or “Empower” to the #IMMOOC hashtag (Kindle version or Paperback). Please also use the hashtag of the corresponding book so the authors can connect with you directly (Innovator’s Mindset = #IMMOOC #InnovatorsMindset, Empower = #IMMOOC #EmpowerBook, Learner-Centred Innovation = #IMMOOC #LCInnovation).
You can enter twice if you post to your own personal Facebook with the #IMMOOC hashtag as well (you will need to fill out the entry with a link to your Facebook post as well).
There will be ten prizes given away, and we will be making the draw on March 12, 2018 (or close to that date); you have until March 9 to enter. Winners will be contacted directly via email.
Thank you for entering! We look forward to your selfies. ?
(You do not need to focus on all 3, but we encourage you to choose one for this round of #IMMOOC. Full disclosure, all three of these books are with either DBC Consulting or IMpress Books, a subsidiary company.)
Katie Martin will be leading this round, but myself (George Couros), as well as John Spencer and AJ Juliani, will all be involved in the course. This gives participants an opportunity to discuss each book directly with the author while sharing their own user-generated content.
If you are new to #IMMOOC, I would suggest you start with “The Innovator’s Mindset.” If you have taken the course before, “Empower” is a shorter read, while “Learner-Centred Innovation” is a bit longer. All (hopefully) have a powerful and inspiring message, but you are free to choose the book that you have the most interest in.
Starting February 26, each Monday night we will have a YouTube Live session at 9 PM EST (6 PM PST), that will be consistent every Monday night based on past user feedback. The YouTube Live sessions are planned for the following dates (same time weekly, 6 PM PST):
Date
February 26
March 5
March 12
March 19
March 26
We will also have a Twitter chat weekly (#IMMOOC), led by Tara Martin. are on the following dates:
March 1, 2018
9pm EST
March 8, 2018
9pm EST
March 15, 2018
9pm EST
March 22, 2018
9pm EST
March 29, 2018
9pm EST
April 5, 2018
9pm EST
We are also extremely excited to bring on some awesome guests for this experience that will share their own experiences and work, to open up the learning past the book.
We will also bring on guests for some of the YouTube Live sessions, and those will be announced in the future.
If you are interested in joining, please do the following:
Buy a copy of “The Innovator’s Mindset“, “Empower” or “Learner-Centred Innovation“. You do not need to purchase a copy of any of these books to participate, but it is definitely helpful to the conversations. We will have a “selfie challenge” coming soon so get your book as soon as you can so you can win a prize for our draw.
So here we are…at the final episode of #IMMOOC for the season. It has been amazing how the alumni have really stepped up this season and really driven the process. Thank you to all of those that have returned, modeled their learning, and supported others to this process. It has been amazing to watch.
In the final episode of the season, we will have Kayla Delzer join us. Kayla is a current classroom teacher, and has an avid interest in learning spaces, and shares her learning throughout the world. We are looking forward to having her join us this week on November 1, at 8pm EST (5pm PST). You can find the link below:
Here are the final assignments for the week:
Read Part 4 of “The Innovator’s Mindset“. It is also now available on Audiobook. The last chapter was extremely emotional for me to read.
I am going to encourage you to write two posts this week.
a. The first is to give a shoutout to 3 other blog posts that you read from other participants. Provide a link, their social media handle, and a quick summary, as well as why it made an impact on you.
b. The second is to either talk about the #IMMOOC experience and how it made an impact on you, or something that you are going to try differently because of #IMMOOC. Or both.
Join the final Twitter chat on Thursday, November 2, at 9pm EST.
That’s it! You have made it to the end!
This might be the final time I run #IMMOOC, so if it is, please know that I really enjoyed watching so many connections being made through the process. I really want to thank you for your dedication and your willingness to finish off this process.
All the best for the rest of the school year, and I look forward to connecting with you all continuously.
Amazing how quickly this process goes. We are already in week 5 and I have appreciated the conversations and contributions that so many have had through this process.
This week, we are lucky to have an educational leader and author of the book, “What’s In Your Space“, Dwight Carter, join us for a conversation. You can watch live on Tuesday, October 24, at 8pm EST (5pm PST). The link is below:
Here are the suggested assignments for the week.
Read Part 3 of “The Innovator’s Mindset”
We are going to try a different blog challenge this week. I encourage you to write 3 posts under 250 words. The reason I encourage you to do this is that a lot of times, educators are more likely to read shorter posts, but it also shows that a blog post can be effective while being short and to the point. There are 5 chapters in Part 3, so I encourage you to write on 3 of the 5 chapters, but here are some prompts that might help: Here are some other questions that might help you from the book as well. If none of these work, please write based on what you are passionate about.
Please join us for the Twitter chat on Thursday at 9pm EST.
By this point of the process, people start to check out. I encourage you to finish strong! As I have stated before, you get out of it what you put in, but I know that many of the “alumni” that have finished the process have not only enjoyed the benefit, but have made a significant impact on others.
We are pumped for episode 4 with Patrick Larkin. Patrick is not only a good friend of mine, but he is a forward-thinking leader that is amazing at building relationships with the people he serves. This chat will happen live on Wednesday, October 18, at 8pm EST, (5pm PST). You can watch live here:
Do a video reflection on Twitter to the hashtag #IMMOOC and focus on either one of these questions:
a. Why are relationships so important to innovation in education?
b. Your thoughts on “engagement” versus “empowerment”.
Blog prompts for the week are the following:
a. Is modeling your learning something that is important to innovation? What do you do to model your own learning through your practice?
b. Relationships and collaboration are crucial to innovation, but what about working in isolation? Where does that come into play?c. Who is an educator that has had a tremendous impact on you in your career that you met through social media or have dug into their stuff from afar? Why did they have an impact?
Comment to 3 other participant posts and share out 3 other posts (can be the same).
#IMMOOC twitter chat happens this week on Thursday, October 19, at 9pm EST (6pm PST)
Have a great week everyone! The content that has been created this season has been phenomenal! Keep it up!
P.S. The #IMMOOC Selfie-Contest winners have been contacted. Thanks for all that participated!
Great blog posts coming out this week from #IMMOOC’ers, and we have really enjoyed seeing people’s reflections. Keep them coming!
As something new we want to try, we are interviewing an awesome #IMMOOC alumni as an episode this week. Katie Martin will be talking with Tara Martin, who will share her journey and growth over the last couple of years when focusing on the “Innovator’s Mindset”. You can catch the episode here at 8:30 PM EST (530 PM PST) on Tuesday, October 10.
For reading this week, I would suggest reading Part 2, Chapters 4 and 5.
Here are the assignments for the week:
Write a post on Chapter 4 and 5 of the book, or use the following blog prompt:
What is one thing that you used to do in education that you no longer do or believe in? Why the change?
The reason I think this is a good practice is to remind people that we are all on a journey and that our thinking changes over time. It is much easier to work with others when you remind yourself that you haven’t always thought the way you do today. Please post links on Twitter to the hashtag #IMMOOC as well as here on Facebook.
In the spirit of keeping this short, here is the information for the week.
We look forward to welcoming Alice Keeler this week, co-author of the book, “Ditch That Homework“, as well as many other books. The livestream will happen below on Wednesday, October 4, at 7pm EST (4PM PST).
Please feel free to join us live to participate and ask questions live with Alice.
Here are the assignments for this week:
Read Part 1 of “The Innovator’s Mindset” (Chapters 1-3)
Comment on 3 other people’s blog posts and share them on Twitter to the #IMMOOC hashtag.
Blog on any of the following prompts (or your own) and put #IMMOOC in the title so that it can be easily found on the hashtag. You can also post the link to this Facebook status update. You are not limited to writing on your blog. You are more than welcome to answer the questions through any type of media but I suggest posting the content in your blog somehow:
How can you create opportunities for innovation in your leadership? In your teaching? In your learning?
If you were to start a school from scratch, what would it look like?
Take one of the “Characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset” and write an example of how you exemplify it in your own work.
The #IMMOOC Twitter chat will happen at 9pm EST on Thursday, October 5, hosted by Tara Martin, Katie Martin, and Annick Rauch.
I hope you have a great week! Thanks for participating in this experience.
The following post is from #IMMOOC alumni and leader, Tara Martin. Awesome stuff as you go into the first chat.
As we enter Round 3 of #IMMOOC, I can honestly say… I now have a clear understanding of the second ‘M’ in the hashtag.
MASSIVE!
In fact, that might be an understatement. Our #IMMOOC family is MASSIVE in numbers, incredible ideas, and EDUawesomeness!
With that in mind…
During the last round of #IMMOOC, George Couros (author of The Innovator’s Mindset) added a Twitter Chat to #IMMOOC which Katie Martin and I co-hosted. It only took us one round of chatting it up to realize this experience was different.
Don’t be afraid; it’s amazing, and the ideas are plentiful.
However, it has a MASSIVE amount of attendees and needs to be treated accordingly. Katie and I made a few notes from the last round, and we came up with a few tips that might help to make this experience more meaningful for YOU!
A Few Tips To Consider When Twitter Chatting #IMMOOC Style
1) #IMMOOC Twitter chats average 3000 tweets/hour.
2) The moderators will not get to every tweet.
3) Collaborate with your PLN peeps and don’t worry about keeping up. (It’s a group effort.)
4) This is a PLFamily event. Comment on each other’s ideas and don’t worry if you get off and miss a question because you are engaged in a side-discussion.
5) Set Tweetdeck up by answers. This might be the BEST tip of all.
Setting your Tweetdeck up like this helps streamline the feed and prevents the “tweet traffic jam” that might occur using only one column.
To set up Tweetdeck by answers, Type “#IMMOOC A1” to set up one column. Then, “#IMMOOC A2” to set up the next column and so on. See images below.
As you move from one question to the next, simply begin following the column to the right to see the new round of answers.
Remember, you will still need to check the #IMMOOC column to see the questions because only the answers will show up in the columns setup by #IMMOOC A#s.
We are pumped that #IMMOOC, Season 3, is upon us. We have over 1000 new people that have joined this round, and many that are participating for a second or third time. This is going to be great. (If you are reading this and have not signed up,you can sign up here., and get the book here.)
My goal is to keep these updates each week as short as possible, so here is the information for this week.
Join us for a YouTube Live Session With Jo Boaler, author of “Mathematical Mindsets“, at 8pm EST, 5pm PST (Monday, September 25). If you miss it live, all live sessions are archived. Link will be here
The #IMMOOC Twitter chat will happen at 9pm EST on Thursday, Septmeber 28, hosted by Tara Martin, Katie Martin, and Annick Rauch. If you are new to Twitter chats, we will be posting something this week.
This week, please read the Publisher’s Foreword and Introduction of the book.
Here are the blog prompts for this week (please choose any one or write something on your own):a. Why is innovation in education so crucial today? b. Talk about a time you dealt with adversity in education, and how you overcame it?Do not feel that you need to write a college essay. Write what you are compelled to write and share it. If the blog directly correlates to #IMMOOC, please put #IMMOOC hashtag in your title. You can also post under the relevant Facebook post which calls for all Week 1 Blog posts.
People have asked me for a document to help them for “credit hours” so I have created this document that you can keep up to date with your work, or use for your own professional learning. PLEASE NOTE that this is not mandatory and you do not need to complete everything to be a part of the experience. Make it personal, push yourself, but do what works for you.#IMMOOC Credit Hours Document
I look forward to meeting many new people, being inspired by educators that empower students and colleagues, and learning from you all this round. See you soon!
We really appreciate all of the people who have signed up for the #IMMOOC and as show of appreciation,Dave Burgess Consulting will be giving away some prizes.
You will have the opportunity 3 books of your choice from the Dave Burgess Consulting library, so if you want to be entered, please do the following:
You can enter twice if you post to your own personal Facebook with the #IMMOOC hashtag as well (you will need to fill out the entry with a link to your Facebook post as well).
There will be 10 prizes given away and we will be making the draw on October 11, 2017; you have until October 4th to enter. Winners will be announced on immooc.org soon after that date.
Thank you for entering! We look forward to your selfies 🙂
