As the school year approaches I am thinking about the number of teacher meetings we will have as a staff this upcoming school year. I am guilty of getting off task during these meetings. Checking my Twitter account to see new and innovative ways teachers/students are using technology, updating my blog or commenting on students' blogs are just a few of my guilty undertakings during these teacher meetings. PRINCIPALS!!! I am challenging you to digitize your meetings. Often times, we are introduced to topic and giving time to discuss with our peers. We then spend time having each group share out. That is great and all but what about trying some of the following to take an analog process and turn it into a digital experience. Use TodaysMeet to create a back channel. Now staff can collaborate in real time. I am no longer limited to the peers at my table only. You do not have to take time to share out as it is happening in real time. Another similar tool to TodaysMeet is Padlet. Create a stream of collaboration. My favorite difference is that you can share an image with Padlet. Now if asked to create a drawing/sketch of your thinking, snap a pic and share with the whole staff in real time. Create a public shared document and give the link to teachers prior to the meeting. All the teachers can access the link and use the Google Doc as a collaborative slate. Once the meeting is done save as a PDF and email to teachers or even publish to a cloud storage for all staff to access on demand. In conclusion, I am not pointing fingers saying that principals or even teachers leading staff meetings are failing. As we ask students to embrace technology to foster their learning, I think staff meetings are a great opportunity to model pedagogical uses of technology.
What do you think? Any other ideas to turn analog process of staff meetings into digital ones?
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Andrew FenstermakerInstructional Technology Coordinator | Innovation Coach | Google Certified Innovator | Presenter | Blogger | Adjunct @UiowaEducation | Owner @kids_f_i_r_s_t |