Description

In this episode of GotTechED the Podcast we discuss:

• Characteristics of Good Virtual Professional Development
• Virtual Professional Development Ideas 
• ISTE Presentation Application
• Google Innovator Application Process

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Segment 1: Welcome Joe and Cara 

• • What do you do?  Path to get there…
  • Moved the GI and ISTE experience into the intro… 
    • Cara Intro
      • About the Program
      • Requirements
      • What Application is like and what Cara has been involved with thus far since being accepted
      • @MissEduTech
      
      
    • Joe Intro
      • Experience at ISTE
      • ISTE PRESENTATION LINK
      • Designing Virtual PD EBook
      • About submitting to present versus People’s Choice
      • Biggest Takeaways
      • @jvalver_HTSD
      
      
    
    
  
  

Segment 2: Virtual PD Characteristics/Description

• We will play a game for this segment… Cara vs. Joe Guess the Top 10 characteristics of virtual PD
  • Before the game starts What is virtual professional development?
  
  
• We will have you two guess the 10 characteristics and then we can elaborate on each… 8 are very easy and 2 are a bit more challenging… We made the characteristics broad and non-specific to make it easier. 

Segment 3: Examples of Virtual PD Projects

• • Cara/Joe experiences
    • Intro to Google Apps Online Course
    • Meet & Eat 
    
    
  
  
• ***Planning stages of PD Playlist
• Nick/Guise experiences
  • Badge System
  • Webinars (YouTube Live)
    • Hive Summit (Summer Virtual PD)
    • Cue Summits
    • Strobel Summit
    
    
  
  

• • Voxer/Zoom  Rich Czyz Author of 4’oclock Faculty and Secret Sauce 
  • Twitter Chat  #OK2Ask, #satchat (Evolving Educators Scott Rocco, Brad Curry, Billy Krakower)
  • Podcast Talk (Virtual Book Club)
  • Learning Menus
  
  

Music Credits:

• • The Degs: Shotgun http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Degs/
  • @bensounds https://www.bensound.com/
  
  

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This weeks question is:

Question: How can Virtual PD change PD practices in schools?

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