{"id":26,"date":"2015-10-31T21:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T21:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/?p=26"},"modified":"2015-11-04T02:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:36:52","slug":"running-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/2015\/10\/31\/running-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Dog in a Bowling Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Which ball do I chase? Which lane is mine?<\/p>\n

Cohort21’s first face2face session\u00a0was an absolute smorgasbord of interesting educators, ideas, \u00a0tech tools, tasty nibbles and\u00a0actual\u00a0CANDY, no less. In this melange of inspiring energy, professional engagement,\u00a0tech competence and in some cases, tech mastery, I did my best to keep up. Keep up, I did not. But I consoled myself that I would somehow figure these things out later at home. I wonder how many of\u00a0my students have had those same thoughts as we charged through lessons on Adobe Premiere and\u00a0Photoshop in art class?<\/p>\n

Twitter, Kahoot, WordPress and Google+ are more or less coming into focus.\u00a0I got my tweet deck set up, just in time to try to catch the Cohort21 TGV\u00a0Twitter Chat Express as it moved at lightning speed! Actually, ‘catch’ isn’t quite the right word. By the time I was ready to tweet something, the conversation had long ago moved on to another question. I wonder how many of my students thoughtfully prepare an answer only to find we are no longer on that topic.<\/p>\n

Importantly, I am excited and engaged by the Cohort21 people, process and experience to date, social media rookie status notwithstanding. As famous runner and writer John “The Penguin” Bingham wrote, “The miracle isn’t that I finished, but that I had the courage to start.” I do feel pretty courageous, actually. I like the high wire act of trying\u00a0out new things in the\u00a0classroom\u00a0even when I am uncertain of the outcome, whether I am a teacher or student. Although, as a student I like risk a great deal more when there is no looming assessment. My students probably feel the same way.<\/p>\n

Questions remain: How\u00a0can I drill deep if there is so much opportunity for breadth on offer? What in the world am I going\u00a0to do with Diigo?<\/p>\n

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Which ball do I chase? Which lane is mine? Cohort21’s first face2face session\u00a0was an absolute smorgasbord of interesting educators, ideas, \u00a0tech tools, tasty nibbles and\u00a0actual\u00a0CANDY, no less. In this melange of inspiring energy, professional engagement,\u00a0tech competence and in some cases, tech mastery, I did my best to keep up. Keep up, I did not. But … Continue reading “Like a Dog in a Bowling Alley”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-social-media-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/robinmichel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}