Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in a "Share Your Practice" with colleagues at CPSquared (a community of practice of people who are interested in communities of practice). These sessions are a social reflection process - you intentionally reflect together with professional colleagues on the trade craft of your work. How many of us have the discipline to notice what we're doing with our professional work? Our natural tendency is to keeping moving forward on the to do list, to … [Read more...]
Using Social Media for Professional Learning: Seek, Sense, and Share
For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche's model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field. Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. To me, seeking represents the topics or content that I'm curious about and that will help me be more effective at my work as a social media and nonprofit … [Read more...]
A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning
Many years ago before digital cameras and children, my husband and I used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, we picked out some of the best to scan. Looking at these photos reminds me of how much focused attention we gave to setting up the shot, shooting during the best time for light, debating the rule of thirds, taking photos at different angles, f-stops, and timings, etc. There was a slowness to it that we don't have with … [Read more...]
