#professional learning

Exploring the pedagogical potential of PLNs – Keynote presentation for LTU

This post is a summary of the presentation which I gave as the keynote for the Lulea University of Technology Higher Education Conference.

The pedagogical potential of PLNs from Kay Oddone

Below is a summary of my presentation, including the feedback received by the participants during the session, when we broke to process the information.

The PLN – is it really anything new?

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Remote Skills for Next Semester

Remote Skills for Next Semester As the new semester approaches, K12 teachers should review all their synchronous and asynchronous online remote skills. While educators have learned so much, there are increasingly new ways to apply those skills. COVID-19 variants are still able to disrupt public life, educators can expect individual to large-scale educational disruptions and should plan…

Conferences and Professional Learning

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conferences (n.d.) have been an anchor in my professional learning. Traditionally I attended the ISTE conference at the end of every June from 2012 until the pandemic. While there were many conferences on blended learning and microcredentials which influenced me the relationships I found and nurtured over the years were most…

Teaching Activities within Zoom

As soon as a teacher feels comfortable with the Technical Tips for Zoom Teaching s/he will want to know how to incorporate traditional teaching techniques into this new format. Identifying teaching activities within Zoom will put educators at ease as to completing their teaching assignments regardless of platform or format. Online teachers need teaching activities within Zoom. [Tweet “Identifying…

Be an Online Teacher to be Proud of!

Be an online teacher to be proud of! To be an online teacher to be proud of you need specific skills. Those skills build on the knowledge of face-to-face teaching but must be honed and practiced to expand beyond only those in-person skills. With hundreds of years of teaching history in-person, with all preservice educational experiences (pre-COIVD-19) dedicated to in-person teaching, and with…