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.
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 🙂
The brilliant Katie Martin will be joining again to help host this experience, but alumni from the first course will also be taking part to lead in this experience as well. Not only is this a great way to dig deeper into the content of the book, it is an amazing opportunity to create your own learning, while networking with passionate educators around the world. We have also confirmed guests that will be joining us not only for a YouTube Live, but as well as a Twitter chat every Thursday night at 9pm EST (6pm PST), starting Thursday, September 28, 2017, led my Tara Martin and Katie Martin.
The Twitter chats (#IMMOOC) are on the following dates:
September 28, 2017
9pm EST
October 5, 2017
9pm EST
October 12, 2017
9pm EST
October 19, 2017
9pm EST
October 26, 2017
9pm EST
November 2, 2017
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.
The guests and the times are as follows:
UPDATE:
Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education at Stanford University, and the faculty director of youcubed, and author of the amazing book, “Mathematical Mindsets“, will join us to kick off the course on September 25, 8pm EST (5pm PST).
If you are interested in joining, please do the following:
Buy a copy of “The Innovator’s Mindset“. 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.
There are some districts and teams joining this #IMMOOC, so I would suggest that if you want to build a sub-group through Twitter, you would use something like #IMMOOCTVDSB (TVDSB – Thames Valley District School Board) if you want to make your own connections. If you are interested in getting bulk orders for your team (orders over 10), please connect with me directly.
We look forward to having so many great people join this process and delving deeper into the importance of innovation in education.
I really want to thank all of the people that have contributed for participating, as well as our guests for joining in. A HUGE thank you to Tara Martin, Valerie Zemaitis, and Katie Martin, for their leadership roles in this process. This made it insanely easy for me to put this together, and I believe that their contributions made it a better experience for participants. I never once had to ask them to do something; they were on the ball. What a great reminder about the importance of finding great people to lead.
On our final episode of #IMMOOC Live, we will have administrators, Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis. These two are amazing leaders in education, and their latest book, “Hacking Leadership“, is an awesome book that shares the wisdom of their respective communities. Just a note, the time has changed to happen at 8pm EST, on Monday, April 3.
For this week, we are going to make it easy.
Blog about the impact of the process, and/or, book. We want to hear your thoughts.
Take part in the final #IMMOOC chat on Wednesday at 9pm EST.
Go out of your way to comment on as many other #IMMOOC’er blog posts this week.
I am hoping this was as great an experience for you, as it was for me. It would mean the world to me if you would recommend the book to others as well if you found it valuable.
I believe the following deeply.
Thank you for not only embracing it, but creating it along this journey.
