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Published October 8, 2017 by

#IMMOOC Season 3, Episode 3 with @TaraMartinEDU

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:

  1. 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.

  2. Comment on this Flipgrid shared by Leslie Anaya.
  3. Comment and share at least 3 participant posts from this week.
  4. Join the Twitter chat on Thursday at 9pm EST.

Have a great week! I look forward to learning from you!

#IMMOOC3 Blog Prompts

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Published September 27, 2017 by

Tips to Twitter Chat Like a Boss #IMMOOC Style

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.

See you all Thursday at 8 PM CST!

Let’s OWN this thing!

Bring On #IMMOOC Round 3 BABY!

It will be…

 

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and…

 

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But, afterward, you will be saying…

 

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#IMMOOC3 Participant Posts

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Published September 24, 2017 by

#IMMOOC Season 3, Episode 1 With @JoBoaler (Week 1 Blog Prompts)

Hey everyone!!!

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.

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. This week, please read the Publisher’s Foreword and Introduction of the book.
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

 

#IMMOOC3 Blog Prompts Hangout Announcement

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Published September 14, 2017 by

The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting September 25, 2017 #IMMOOC

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How do you move from “pockets of innovation” to a “culture of innovation”?

How do we start to innovate inside of the box?

How do we move from “engagement” to “empowerment”?

What does innovation mean for education, and should every educator be an innovator?

These are questions that I have addressed in my book, “The Innovator’s Mindset”, and will continue to dig deeper into with the second “Innovator’s Mindset Massive Open Online Course” that will be starting again on September 28, 2017 September, 25, 2017.

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).

Session Topics Time Guests
1 Introduction and 

Part 1: Innovation in Education

 October 4, 7 PM EST Alice Keeler
2 Interview with Katie and Tara October 10, 8pm EST Tara Martin and Katie Martin
3 Part 2:  Laying the Groundwork October 18, 8pm EST Patrick Larkin
4 Part 3: Unleashing Talent October 24, 8pm EST Dwight Carter
5 Part 4: Concluding Thoughts November 1, 8pm EST Kayla Delzer

If you are interested in joining, please do the following:

  1. 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.
  2. Sign up for the course (also listed below).
  3. Get your blog ready to go! (I suggest either edublogs.org or wordpress.com)
  4. Share that you are joining to the #IMMOOC hashtag on Twitter and share this link for others to sign up.
  5. Join the Facebook group.

If you miss the original YouTube Live session, you will be able to watch the recorded version or listen to the podcast.

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.

#IMMOOC3

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