Professional Development
It's true, I am in desperate need for professional development if we're talking ICT. Don't worry, I'm on it, and so far on my quest to gain better knowledge and pedagogies for ICT, I've come across one explicit skill needed if I'm going to teach for the rest of my life, as I plan to. It just so happens that this skill is also a "professional values" descriptor:
"Identify sources of professional development and implement planning where ICT is integrated," (Zagami, 2011).
Or if you aren't as up to speed with... well, everything... as Jason Zagami is, basically I need to be capable of finding ways to gain professional development.
I really wish that googling "professional development" was still sufficient. Apparently it's not anymore, go figure. Lecture two (Zagami, 2011) makes me think that I'm going to need to dig well beneath the surface if I want to better my ICT capabilities. So, as an example, I'm going to experiment with a particular quest for PD (professional development). At the same time, I'll search for something that I actually need, which is this: how to use google more efficiently. That's right, I refuse to let go of google. It's been saving my education since I was 12, so it's time a gave it the attention it deserves.
I now have 2 gmail accounts, a youtube log-in, 16 subscriptions on google reader, 2 google sites, 2 google group subsciptions, and a partridge in a pear tree. And do I really know how to use any of these? not really. So I took Jason's advice and youtubed online tutorials for google apps... which might have worked if I knew what on earth these people in the audio where talking about. My tech terminology is not great.
My greatest lesson of this week was not gained from readings... it actually came from engaging with the technology. I found that the greatest source for PD came from my peers. Google groups and Gmail have been my best friend when it comes to developing my knowledge and capabilities of all google apps. While I'm engaging with google tools, I'm also finding valuable information posted and discussed by my peers, and I identified that...so there.
More on this story as it develops.
Reference:
Zagami, J. (2011). 4001EPS: ICT and Pedagogies, Lecture Two. Retrieved March 7th, 2011, from: www.zagami.info
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