Keeping Up?
 The Transition from Too Few/Little to Too Many/Much:
 Surviving or Thriving?
 Universal, Collaborative, Hybrid/Blended
Lifelong Professional Development


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"Keeping Up" Online Workshop
Context for Hope?
 Teachers, learners, scholars, researchers, and others are living in times of "too much" after centuries of "too little."   Too much information, too many options.  Most of us have trouble keeping up, deciding what we need to keep up about, and determining when we are doing enough.  Many of us believe we're drowning and falling behind at the same time.

Professional development includes at least keeping up with new information and new choices within one's main areas of professional work - and in important areas of personal interest.

"Lifelong Learning" is no longer an attractive phrase describing a need that we can comfortably apply to "them" but not to ourselves.  Lifelong Professional Development is one kind of Lifelong Learning that we all need, but one that is no longer attainable and sustainable solely through our own independent efforts, and solely through traditional professional development offerings.  Consequently, a cornerstone of the foundation for the future success of education and academic research is Universal, Collaborative, Hybrid/Blended Lifelong Professional Development.

We need universal lifelong professional development programs that include:

1.   Continual collaborative improvement and sharing of tools, strategies, and skills for managing and using information;

2.  Well-organized, useful, but incomplete collections, repositories, and referatories of information and instructional resources;

3.  Effective use of both traditional and emerging educational options - especially including (but not limited to) information technology applications.

Finally, what – if anything - can we do about the wasteful inequities of duplication, access, and distribution of information resources within and across institutional, national, and continental boundaries?

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"KEEPING UP"  ONLINE WORKSHOP

January 26, February 2, and 9, 2006 at 1 pm EST

With Leaders Steve Bell, Chuck Ansorge, and Steve Gilbert

I.  Rationale & Strategies/Skills - Taking Charge of Your Life

A.  Why bother?  Who cares?

  • Standing Still is NO LONGER AN OPTION

  • Moving forward...

  • Not drowning...

  • Achieving Change - find, develop new ideas

    • Incremental Steps

    • Transformative Innovation

    • Compassionate Pioneering

B.  Strategies

  1. Overview

  2. Link to module

  3. Link to module

  4. Link to module

  5.  Keeping Found Things Found

    • Keeping up means more things found
    • Challenge – how to make sure you find information when needed
    • Using FURL
    • Other tools (Onfolio, Net Snippets, Catch The Web)

  6. Achieving a new kind of personal equilibrium between too much info and not enough info:  Personalizing Your Keeping Up Regimen

    1. Identifying niche(s) - focusing on your own special expertise, special interests

    2. Looking outside your own special expertise, special interests

     

  7. Watching the cutting edge?  Bleeding edge?

  8. Trends in organizing, finding, searching ... Categories of info, search tools, ... "tagging" - key words: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?  Does the end of the tunnel keep receding?  Can anyone increase the brightness of the light?  Are we even sure we're in a tunnel that has an end?

  9. Developing a personalized E-Strategy for Professional Development

C.  Skills -

  1. Trends in organizing, finding, searching ... Categories of info, search tools, ... "tagging" - key words: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?  Does the end of the tunnel keep receding?  Can anyone increase the brightness of the light?  Are we even sure we're in a tunnel that has an end?

II.  From the Personal to the Communal

A.  Personalizing Your Keeping Up Regimen -

  • Achieving a new kind of personal equilibrium between too much info and not enough info
  • Creating Your Own RSS feeds
  • News and blog sources of information
    • Findory
    • Pubsub
    • Yahoo and other news sources
  • Table of Contents Alerts

B.  Collaborative Keeping Up (social networking)

  • Sharing what you find
  • FURL RSS feeds
  • Cite U Like
  • Backflip
  • Universal inter-dependent lifelong learning - including professional development

III.  Resources

A.  Collections of Tools, References, Information, ...

  1. Trends in organizing, finding, searching ... Categories of info, search tools, ... "tagging" - key words: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?  Does the end of the tunnel keep receding?  Can anyone increase the brightness of the light?  Are we even sure we're in a tunnel that has an end?

B.  Resources - Individual items - Tools, References, Information, ...

  1. Overview

  2. Link to module

  3. Link to module

  4. Link to module

 

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Please send your questions or suggestions for improving our work on "Dangerous Discussions to Steve Gilbert at: 
GILBERT@TLTGROUP.ORG

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