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All posts tagged with ‘CPDChallenges’

Helping build web champions in Ayr

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On Wednesday, I was at a Web Champions shindig in South Ayrshire Council, an event based around the format the CPD Team pioneered at the Building Windmills event last year. I followed Katie Barrowman of the Glow team who was running a Glow Treasure Hunt, great fun! I used the subject of CPD tools for CfE to introduce a series of CPD-based challenges. You can see my Prezis below and  the challenges are in (or under development ) in the CPDChallenge Glow group.

Challenge 9 – Start a blog

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Andrew Brown challenges you to tell the world immediately about your work and to start (and contribute to) educational discussions

What does it involve?

1. visit the Scotedublogs website
2. If you are a Scottish educator, feel free to start your own blog by following the add a blog link
3. write your 1st post (see challenge 2)

Supporting CPD opportunities

Blogs in Plain English Educational Blogs Writing effective blog posts

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Challenge 8 – start your own personal learning network on Twitter

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Katie Barrowman challenges you start finding friends and colleagues to support you in your work using the social networking tool, Twitter

What does it involve?

1. have a look at Twitter
2. search for a keyword
3. join Twitter
4. follow a few key educators (try @katiebarrowman, @cpd, @cpdscotsman, @whereisab)

Supporting CPD opportunities


9 great reasons why Teachers should use Twitter Twitter in Plain English

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Challenge 7 – Have a look at CPDReflect

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

CPDReflect is the online PRD toolkit from LTScotland to help educators reflect on their work. Con Morris challenges you to start looking at this valuable toolkit
What does it involve?


1. enrol with CPDReflect
2. have a play
3. add an example from your own area of practice

Supporting CPD opportunity

What is CPDReflect? CPDReflect users group help

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Challenge 6 – Use Glowmeet

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Would you like to cut down on your travelling, meet people you can’t usually meet or take part in a CPD event without leaving the comfort of your own home? Katie Barrowman challenges you to learn about Glowmeet!

What does it involve?


1. take part in a Glow meet

2. tell people about your work

3. add a document or a slide into the mix

Supporting CPD opportunities

Glowmeet pathway Find out more about Glowing Thursdays

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Challenge 5 – Use CPDFind

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Con Morris invites you to take charge of your own CPD. CPDFind is a CPD search engine from the National CPD Team and LTScotland.
What does it involve?

1. make your way to the CPDFind web site

2. try entering key words that interest you

3. add interesting CPD to your wish-list

4. email your wishlist to your own email address
Supporting CPD opportunities

Just what is CPDFind? CPDFind on CPDAnswers

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Challenge 4 – Use Glow groups

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Sat Bance challenges you to discuss and share your work at a national level and provide collegiate CPD opportunities for colleagues from all over Scotland
What does it involve?

1. Have a browse through some of the National Glow groups

2. Post to a relevant discussion thread

3. post one of your resources or links to a relevant area

4. start (or contribute to) a Glow group in your speciality area!
Supporting CPD opportunity

Developing your skills – Glow groups

Sat’s links

Getting started with Glow Glowing Potential Sharing Glow Groups Malawi group Homecoming Staffroom

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Challenge 3 – Make the most of your presentations

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Con Morris challenges you to improve the reach of and impact of your presentations

What does it involve?

1. Get a presentation you are proud of

2. Open a Slideshare (Voicethread) account

3. Share it with the world

4. Rewrite your presentation using Prezi

Supporting CPD opportunities

Slideshare – Education category Quick Start guide to Prezi Prezi manual

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Challenge 2 – Write for the web

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Your work belongs on the web; on Glow, on blogs or national web sites. Con Morris challenges you to improve your communications by writing concisely

What does it involve?

1. learn a bit about concise writing

2. describe your work in no more than 150 words

3. include hyperlinks

4. Find a place to publish these on the Internet (your blog, other person’s blog as a comment or on your MyGlow page)

Supporting  CPD opportunity

How users read on the web How to write for the web (esp. general tips section)

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Challenge 1 – Find and use images (Andrew Brown)

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This is part of the CPDChallenge series from the National CPD Team

Andrew Brown challenges you to improve your message by adding copyright-free images to presentations, posters, and workshop notes


What does it involve?

1. think about a presentation / lesson you plan to do in the future

2. find some images from Flickr Creative Commons

3. add these to your presentation / lesson resources  (with appropriate attribution!)


Supporting CPD opportunities

Online photo sharing in Plain English, Educator’s guide to Creative Commons, 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

Andrew’s links

http://www.presentationzen.com/ http://search.creativecommons.org/ http://www.flickr.com/
Andrew’s blog post about this challenge

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