#edureading - Introduction for the new or interested participants

#edureading - Introduction for the new or interested participants


Rather than type out the same instructions multiple times. Read here for the summary of what #edureading is and how you can get involved. 

If you are interested in participating with us, the first step is to create a short video introducing yourself to the group, by following this link here: https://flipgrid.com/35c76cfb. It is worth looking over the existing participants to get a feel for the group that you are interested in engaging with. 

After that, you should begin engaging with the questions for the article or book that you are interested in discussing. There will sometimes be a video produced by me to give you an overview of the article, how long it should take, an overview of the questions and so forth. All relevant things are available here: https://sites.google.com/view/educational-reading-group/home

The format of our discussion is an 'Asynchronous' (i.e. not at the same time) discussion. This means that you can participate at any time across the month and can check in on other peoples responses at your leisure. This does involve you using technology and crucially, involves talking to a camera, with knowledge that people will watch it. Everything we do is publicly accessible, but we are protected by the fact that, the bulk of what we talk about is incredibly boring to people outside of education (and perhaps even boring to 90% of people within education). 

There are two levels of engagement with the content:

Firstly. via the video or Flipgrid, which usually involves more work, more than one reading of the article and so forth, so that you can succinctly condense your thoughts into the appropriate length response, FlipGrid has limits on the length of posts you can produce. 

Secondly, you can simply read the article and participate in the Twitter chat on the last Sunday of the month. This Twitter chat will in theory involve people who have participated in the reading, but also those who have not. As such, it is a good way to explore the ideas raised by the article in a more succinct and speedy manner, as well as forming connections with other educators.

Importantly, there is a calendar of all of the relevant dates so that you can keep up with when the Twitter chat will take place: https://sites.google.com/view/educational-reading-group/calendar

Lastly, there is a deadline for the videos to be submitted, which will be somewhat flexible based on whether or not I will be compiling them into an 'Episode' or not. In the past I have edited together all responses to allow for reviewing during the Twitter chat. I likely will not continue to do so, simply because there is no real audience for this 'Episode', with those who have participated already having seen the clips and non-participants being mostly confused by it.

As such, I will aim to manage the Twitter chat better instead and generate questions based on where the discussion went across the month. 

As noted in the video above, all of this is completely open to change as the main point of this is to read articles and share our thoughts about education with our peers. If you would like to suggest a reading or article, you may do so here: https://sites.google.com/view/educational-reading-group/suggest-a-reading

If you have read the above and are still interested in participating complete the above steps, print the article, or buy the chosen book and get involved. If you have any suggestions around how this could be run better, let me know via email to: mrkolbersteaching@gmail.comOr on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/steven_kolber

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