So one of my assignments this week, was to attend an\nEducational Tweetchat. As I reviewed the list of chats, they were almost all\ngeared towards K-12th grade teachers. Being an instructional designer in\ncorporate America for the past 20+ years, I had a difficult time choosing what\nmight be applicable to me and had some doubts about the assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The assignment, briefly, was to participate in a Tweetchat\nand blog about the experience. So I found a \u201cWeekly Learning and Teaching in\nHigher Education\u201d chat that said it was geared towards both teachers and\nstudents. As a student getting my Masters in adult learning and education, I thought\nthis might be the one for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thing that struck me was that most of the participants were from the U.K. and a few shared photos of their cats. That in itself felt so cool to me: not only was I connecting with teachers from the UK, but they were sharing their pets. A personal touch is not a bad thing. I soon found that the questions, however, were a bit out of my area of expertise. For example, one question posed was \u201cWhat advice might you give to someone considering presenting or publishing pedagogic research?\u201d To be perfectly frank, I had to look up pedagogy. (This is only my second semester, after all.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the 3rd<\/sup> question, I realized I was not\ngoing to add to this conversation, but instead listen quietly and try to learn\nas much as I could. As the other participants spoke about the importance of sharing\nyour findings through publishing and presenting, I realized that this is the\nwhole point of Tweetchat: learning from each other and sharing what you know so\nthat you don\u2019t have to duplicate efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Collaboration became a huge theme of the chat. Even though at first this chat seemed a bit beyond my understanding and experience, I learned a few important points. First, collaboration is a necessity, as I saw just from the Tweetchat alone. It still is an amazing concept to me, having previously not known these scheduled chats even existed. Now I realize that I can search for chats that are more specific to instructional design and my professional endeavors in order to enhance my skills and broaden my knowledge, and I plan to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another theme that also arose over and over again was blogging. If publishing is too difficult, too expensive, too time-consuming, just blog! So here I am, doing exactly what was suggested. I had no idea when I began this assignment that the assignment itself would give credence to me blogging about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So one of my assignments this week, was to attend an Educational Tweetchat. As I reviewed the list of chats, they were almost all geared towards K-12th grade teachers. Being an instructional designer in corporate America for the past 20+ years, I had a difficult time choosing what might be applicable to me and had … Continue reading “Blogging: The Beginning and the End”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}