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Cohort 21 is a unique professional development opportunity open to teachers and school leaders who are seeking to build a learning network amongst CIS Ontario member schools. The Cohort 21 community will be built on a foundation of collaboration and innovation and together, will investigate and refine 21st century teaching and learning best practices through the rich experience of \u201clearning by doing\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n It’s taken me a good night’s sleep to gather my thoughts from yesterday’s first Face to Face session with this year’s Cohort 21<\/a> group. What an exciting, whirlwind of a day, packed with information and ideas – it’s hard to stop thinking about all the possibilities presented at yesterday’s session. Of course I saw so many ideas that I thought “Wow, that would be neat to do on Monday morning” but of course, these things require time. So I am grateful for the year-long aspect of this “project” \/ undertaking though, obviously, being a teacher is also being a life-long learner. You never stop learning in order to better your practice.<\/p>\n Even though I was familiar with a number of the tools we learned about (Twitter<\/a> and Word Press in particular) using them for a different purpose than my food blog<\/a> places me firmly back at square one (as in, hardly any followers, and learning my way around a new Word Press theme<\/a>) which sometimes feels like a tricky place to be but it’s good to be challenged and it’s especially good to sometimes feel a little like our students must feel every day – a little overwhelmed and confused and needing to work hard to understand what’s going on. Yesterday was a good reminder of what it’s like to be a learner again. It was a little scary but I’m pleased to be on this journey with so many like-minded souls. I am sure together we will find our way!<\/p>\n My two big takeaways from yesterday in terms of practical “stuff”? Google Chrome<\/a> and Diigo<\/a>. I’m excited to see what a powerful browser Chrome is and all the possibilities it affords and Diigo looks to be exactly the tool I have been looking for to bookmark and save articles of interest all in one place. These are tools that I feel can really help my own productivity as a teacher which is a great place to start when you are embarking on a journey of discovery like Cohort 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cohort 21 is a unique professional development opportunity open to teachers and school leaders who are seeking to build a learning network amongst CIS Ontario member schools. The Cohort 21 community will be built on a foundation of collaboration and innovation and together, will investigate and refine 21st century teaching and learning best practices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,2,8],"tags":[13,17,14,16,15,10,12],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cohort-21","category-learning","category-random-thoughts","category-teaching","tag-diigo-2","tag-google-chrome-2","tag-learning-2","tag-professional-development","tag-teaching-2","tag-twitter-2","tag-word-press-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mardimichels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}