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PLNs through Blogs - Email 3 of 3 in Welcome Week
Here is your third of three emails preparing for the Fall AEE 412 and Beyond! The 1st email was an introduction to 412 (http://psuaee412.blogspot.com/2016/08/introduction-to-aee-412-tasks-for-day-1.html) . The second email was regarding Edthena (http://psuaee412.blogspot.com/2016/08/edthena-email-2-of-3-for-welcome-week.html). This email talks about Professional Learning Networks through Blogs.
We are going to embark on this amazing #TeachAg journey. You are going to have so many great experiences across all of your classes. One way we are going to try to make sure we get the most juice from the orange is cultivating our capacity as a connected, reflective practitioner.
At this point, pragmatically, this means the presence we are developing with our individual professional blogs and our team twitter hashtag (#psuaged17). I will know you are really embracing the notion of capturing your thoughts/ideas along the journey when you are blogging on your own and not just by assignment!
What we are doing is providing a platform/opportunity to have our own PLN. A PLN is a professional or personal learning network:
1. Here is a wicked awesome “sketch” by Sylvia Duckworth that illustrates (I do like
learning by pictures): https://dougpete.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/a-challenge/
2. Here is the best blog I have found to really illustrate what we are shooting for: https://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/pln-challenge-1-what-the-heck-is-a-pln/
The ask of you: I would like you to be active participants in your teams PLN. This means checking out and sharing across platforms. You never know when your one comment or like might make the difference. I am not asking you to read all of them and/or comment on everything, I am asking that you leave the occasional digital fingerprint letting your fellow cohort members know that what we are learning and preparing to do is important and matters.
My teaching philosophy and approach has been impacted by so many wonderful educators. We all need around us a nurturing network of dynamic agriculturalists and agricultural educators who are not afraid to encourage, challenge, and generally share their passion for the future of agriculture and for teaching and learning. I have taken the liberty to share your blog addresses and twitter handles with some of those individuals I respect and appreciate from across Pennsylvania and across the nation, so don’t be surprised if you get a comment or two from others!
This is the opportunity to exhibit the courage of showing all of us growing professional and developing transparent communication for public consumption about what we see happening!!! I also encourage you to share your information with teachers or individuals who have had a positive impact on your life and who you want to to have join you on this exciting journey.
Here are your peers blogs!!! Check them out!
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Name
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Blog Address
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Twitter Handle
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Cahill, Matthew
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@cahillms89
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Hack, Kayla
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@HackKayla
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Kane, Miranda
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@mir_kane
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Repetz, Nathan
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@N8_Repetz
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Rider, Matthew
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@mvr5027
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Snyder, Matt
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@snyder6878
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Zaleski, Evy
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@CuteEvyAnn
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Know
that I will never ask you to do anything that I would not do (or try to role
model) as well. I have set aside an hour of professional reading time each week
and I hope to share the ponderings from that and other experiences with a
weekly blog post at my personal professional blog: http://exponentiallyimpactful.blogspot.com/
And I will have blogs for my Fall Classes:
Thanks for putting purposeful energy into this!
Dr. Foster
P.S. I know this can seem like a lot of blogs
to follow, but be sure to use a “reader” or something that collates latest
posts into one feed that you can look at. I use the blogger page and subscribe
to all of your blogs to read at one spot. I am glad to show this to anyone who
asks!!
Edthena - Email 2 of 3 for Welcome Week
This is the 2nd of three total emails you will
receive from me in helping us accelerate our #TeachAg Journey. You received the
AEE day 1 orientation email yesterday. Today, is the “Edthena” email. Tomorrow,
I will share about building our Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) with
blogs!
Bottom-line
up Front:
We will use the application Edthena for Video Coaching from
this point until graduation. You will use for Fall teaching via AEE 412, to
share best lessons and lessons you want help on in the Spring with me, and you
will create video portfolios with Edthena to share with potential employers
(very cool!). Here is a demo video: https://demo.edthena.com/intro
Resources:
1)
To help with this, we are going to be patient
and communicate a lot! J I can’t
wait for your cool ideas as innovative instructors on how to use this
technology!
2)
Each of you will be provided a sweet, new iPad
mini for use from now until May (surprise!! I am hoping they come and you get
them by Wednesday of the first week of class)
3)
There is actually an app you can download for
Edthena you can use on any device (cool huh?)
Goals:
1)
Share feedback from entire instructional team
(Ewing, Rice, Foster)
2)
Share peer feedback in cohort
3)
Facilitate instructional relationships with
cooperating teachers by sharing feedback on practice in Fall
4)
Facilitate feedback from respected teachers YOU
select
Note: the cool thing is you can generate and share a
link for folks to comment to anyone with an email!
ACTION ITEMS
1 – Create your Edthena Account
You should have been sent an email automatically today from the company as I
put your name in (let me know if you did not get it)
Use the attached Getting Started Guide
2- Post a video in our group of you interviewing a minimum
of a students not in your cohort at Penn State who is majoring in AEE. Why are
they? What are they excited about? What do they worried about?
3-Watch your peers posted video interviews. Comment with
your thoughts!
4- Complete all Tasks by Friday,
September 2nd. (sooner
the better)
Introduction to AEE 412 - Tasks for Day 1 and Reminders
In less than 7 days, we will be starting our grand adventure in #AEE412! I have been doing quite a bit of reflection-on-practice and I realize:
1) Each and every one of you really WANT to be successful student teaching next semester!
2) Each of you recognize that AEE 412 is a critical foundational building block for that success next semester.
With that understanding, AEE 412 becomes much less about grades, assignments, “to do lists”, and so much more about collaboration between each of us as team members on doing what needs to be done to ROCK, to gain the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will allow us to be effective educators, and thus, succeed. Know that each version of AEE 412 is quite different from other versions. Naturally, there are similarities, but just as naturally, there are differences. I work to be responsive to the changing needs of who is in the room and those in the room are not passive learners, but rather active participants. Therefore, each of you will bring something unique and wonderful that was never in the class before!
In the past, I have shared the syllabus, assignment handbook, and lab packet at this point….there will be time for that later. Over the weekend I was inspired by one of favorite podcasts (TED radio hour), so to be fully prepared for 8:00am in Ferguson 003,
1) Each and every one of you really WANT to be successful student teaching next semester!
2) Each of you recognize that AEE 412 is a critical foundational building block for that success next semester.
With that understanding, AEE 412 becomes much less about grades, assignments, “to do lists”, and so much more about collaboration between each of us as team members on doing what needs to be done to ROCK, to gain the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will allow us to be effective educators, and thus, succeed. Know that each version of AEE 412 is quite different from other versions. Naturally, there are similarities, but just as naturally, there are differences. I work to be responsive to the changing needs of who is in the room and those in the room are not passive learners, but rather active participants. Therefore, each of you will bring something unique and wonderful that was never in the class before!
In the past, I have shared the syllabus, assignment handbook, and lab packet at this point….there will be time for that later. Over the weekend I was inspired by one of favorite podcasts (TED radio hour), so to be fully prepared for 8:00am in Ferguson 003,
I simply ask you do the following FOUR steps:
1) Listen to the 53 minute Podcast from Friday, August 14, 2015 entitled “Amateur Hour”. You can do this while driving, walking etc.! Here is a direct link: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/431363633/amateur-hour
2) Read the four page 2010 article from Educational Leadership entitled, “Even Geniuses Work Hard” https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9rwwS2lj61ceGhSRy1DdzJCMUU
3) Read the one-page opinion article from the Lewiston Tribune from Sunday August 01, 2014, “Fearing failure, children become slaves to our praise” https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9rwwS2lj61ceGhSRy1DdzJCMUU
4) Find one other artifact (article, podcast, quote, website, etc) and bring with you ready to share that helps elucidate your point of “Why are starting this way?”
Yay! Four easy steps that can be done in 2 hours maximum to make sure we all start the Fall semester on the right track!
Look forward to seeing you on Monday. I sincerely hope that this will be a learning adventure unlike any you have encountered before,
Dr. Foster
o Monday – Ferguson 003 – 8:00am-9:55am
o Wednesday – Ferguson 214 – 8am-10am (4-6 times in the semester we will need to meet from 7am-10am!)
o Friday – Ferguson 003 – 9:00am-9:55am
· Don’t forget the July 22nd email about #TeachAgChat and your title topic selection that is due on Friday August 26th.
· Look for an email about building our professional learning networks through our shared blog network this week!
· The textbooks are critical. Do not hesitate in acquiring them as we will be using them extensively:
o Newcomb, L. H., McCracken, J. D., Warmbrod, J. R., & Whittington, M. S. (2004.) Methods of Teaching Agriculture (3rd ed.). Pearson-Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. [Estimated cost new: $80]
i. http://www.amazon.com/Methods-Teaching-Agriculture-3rd-Newcomb/dp/0131134183/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408454434&sr=1-1&keywords=methods+of+teaching+agriculture
o Reardon, M. & Derner, S. (2004). Strategies for Great Teaching. Zephyr Press, Chicago, Illinois. [Estimated cost: $20]
ii. http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Great-Teaching-Maximize-Learning/dp/1593633424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408454461&sr=1-1&keywords=strategies+for+great+teaching+reardon
· Class Platforms (6 total platforms of engagement. Can you identify them all listed below?)
o Our course management system for AEE 412 (as well as AEE 295, AEE 350, and AEE 413), will be the #psuaged17 private community on NAAE CoP. https://communities.naae.org/community/prodev/preservice/pennstate/2017-teacher-candidates (BTW, they have really updated it and added an APP!)
o We will actively explore Google Drive with shared materials: www.tinyurl.com/AEE412
o We will have a course blog where fun extras will be shared. I recommend subscribing! http://psuaee412.blogspot.com/
§ You are encouraged to add comments, questions, etc.! Use it as productive tool!
§ We will have a “guest blogger” series where great teachers are invited to share super cool ideas!
§ I suggest subscribing with your blog reader (would be glad to show anyone who asks!)
o Twitter: I will actively share on resources on Twitter at #AEE412 (and #psuaged17)
o New this Year:
§ I am continuing an instructional goal for myself model reflection on practice after each class session. Consider it, “Confessions of an Agri Teacher Educator!” They will be either hash tagged with #AEE412 on Twitter or done via FaceBook LIVE (feel free to add me if you wish) and I will archive some on my YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/DrDFoster
§ Edthena. It will be awesome and there will be additional emails coming!Int
1) Listen to the 53 minute Podcast from Friday, August 14, 2015 entitled “Amateur Hour”. You can do this while driving, walking etc.! Here is a direct link: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/431363633/amateur-hour
2) Read the four page 2010 article from Educational Leadership entitled, “Even Geniuses Work Hard” https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9rwwS2lj61ceGhSRy1DdzJCMUU
3) Read the one-page opinion article from the Lewiston Tribune from Sunday August 01, 2014, “Fearing failure, children become slaves to our praise” https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9rwwS2lj61ceGhSRy1DdzJCMUU
4) Find one other artifact (article, podcast, quote, website, etc) and bring with you ready to share that helps elucidate your point of “Why are starting this way?”
Yay! Four easy steps that can be done in 2 hours maximum to make sure we all start the Fall semester on the right track!
Look forward to seeing you on Monday. I sincerely hope that this will be a learning adventure unlike any you have encountered before,
Dr. Foster
Other Notes & Reminders
· Course Logistics. Class will meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the locations and times listed below. We will only have one lab section due to small group and sometimes (very few!) we will need to meet at 7am to get everything done!o Monday – Ferguson 003 – 8:00am-9:55am
o Wednesday – Ferguson 214 – 8am-10am (4-6 times in the semester we will need to meet from 7am-10am!)
o Friday – Ferguson 003 – 9:00am-9:55am
· Don’t forget the July 22nd email about #TeachAgChat and your title topic selection that is due on Friday August 26th.
· Look for an email about building our professional learning networks through our shared blog network this week!
· The textbooks are critical. Do not hesitate in acquiring them as we will be using them extensively:
o Newcomb, L. H., McCracken, J. D., Warmbrod, J. R., & Whittington, M. S. (2004.) Methods of Teaching Agriculture (3rd ed.). Pearson-Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. [Estimated cost new: $80]
i. http://www.amazon.com/Methods-Teaching-Agriculture-3rd-Newcomb/dp/0131134183/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408454434&sr=1-1&keywords=methods+of+teaching+agriculture
o Reardon, M. & Derner, S. (2004). Strategies for Great Teaching. Zephyr Press, Chicago, Illinois. [Estimated cost: $20]
ii. http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Great-Teaching-Maximize-Learning/dp/1593633424/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408454461&sr=1-1&keywords=strategies+for+great+teaching+reardon
· Class Platforms (6 total platforms of engagement. Can you identify them all listed below?)
o Our course management system for AEE 412 (as well as AEE 295, AEE 350, and AEE 413), will be the #psuaged17 private community on NAAE CoP. https://communities.naae.org/community/prodev/preservice/pennstate/2017-teacher-candidates (BTW, they have really updated it and added an APP!)
o We will actively explore Google Drive with shared materials: www.tinyurl.com/AEE412
o We will have a course blog where fun extras will be shared. I recommend subscribing! http://psuaee412.blogspot.com/
§ You are encouraged to add comments, questions, etc.! Use it as productive tool!
§ We will have a “guest blogger” series where great teachers are invited to share super cool ideas!
§ I suggest subscribing with your blog reader (would be glad to show anyone who asks!)
o Twitter: I will actively share on resources on Twitter at #AEE412 (and #psuaged17)
o New this Year:
§ I am continuing an instructional goal for myself model reflection on practice after each class session. Consider it, “Confessions of an Agri Teacher Educator!” They will be either hash tagged with #AEE412 on Twitter or done via FaceBook LIVE (feel free to add me if you wish) and I will archive some on my YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/DrDFoster
§ Edthena. It will be awesome and there will be additional emails coming!Int
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