It's a new year! Time for new opportunities and new challenges.
So here's a challenge for you: Try something new for the next 30-days!
Why? Watch this short TED-talk:
Now, choose a challenge. It doesn't have to be but, of course, I'd like it to be something related to this course. For example:
- Check in on the eme 2040 course at least once a day.
- Spend 15 minutes a day reading the textbook.
- Spend 15 minutes a day thinking--just thinking--about the module and activities for the week and how those apply to you, the new teacher.
- Explore one of the links in the right hand column of this blog. Just one!
- Start a journal about your journey to becoming a teacher and write in it every day. (You can do it online privately for free with a program like Penzu. There's a Penzu mobile app, too, so you can do it anywhere!)
- Find an article about educational technology and read it, or at least skim it. (You'll find some possible links in the class blog and class wiki!) Share your thoughts with the class in a discussion or on Twitter.
- Sign up for Twitter and follow the hashtag #edtech to see what teachers are doing with technology.
- Post an item of interest to Twitter using the #eme2040 hashtag.
- Do your assignment early and then check the discussions to see if anyone needs help with his/her assignment.
- Check the class blog and/or the class wiki once a day.
- Do the challenge of the week--a little each day.
- Day 1: Read the challenge.
- Day 2: Read about the tool.
- Day 3: Read how it is used in education.
- Day 4: See some examples,
- Day 5: Do the challenge.
- Day 6: Review it to be sure it's the best you can do.
- Day 7: Turn it in and think about whether or not it is a tool you'd want to add to your "toolbox."
- Find a podcast or video about educational technology and watch it or listen to it--orparts of it--each day.
Image cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Sukanto Debnath
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