Amaze and Inspire: Collaborating with Colleagues

1. AIMS Tech Retreat
April 2009

5. Excerpt from:
TED Talk: Tim Brown on creativity and play

6. 30 seconds to
draw your
neighbor

7. EXERCISE

8. LEARNING

9. NOVELTY

10. Excerpt from:
TED Talk: Ken Robinson – Do schools kill creativity?

11. NOVELTY
COMMUNITY

13. We have concluded…that the
construction of a learning
community…is the key to a
successful outcome…
RENA PALLOFF and KEITH PRATT

18. Example 1:

19. 57% EAGER
YOUR PERSPECTIVE
ON COLLEAGUES’
PARTICIPATION IN P.D.

20. Marguerite
thinking…
seeing…
Ω
hearing…
saying…
2 minutes to
draw an
doing… empathy map

21. Discussion
How do we handle change?

22. Excerpt from:
Ben Zander Davos Talk

23. Example 2:

24. Brainstorm: Possibility
http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

25. Discussion
Share one strategy for
“awakening” collaboration

26. AREAS IN WHICH YOU PARTICIPATE IN P.D.
91%
PRIMARY
45%
OTHER
18%
UNRELATED

27. WHY YOU PARTICIPATE IN P.D.
97%
KNOWLEDGE
84%
COLLEAGUES
55%
CHALLENGE

28. …those of us who are trying to
get colleagues to identify and
question their assumptions, or
to look at their practice through
different lenses, must do the
same…
STEPHEN BROOKFIELD

29. Personal Networks

30. me
family
dog walkers
& neighbors
colleagues
1 minute to
blogs & listservs
spiral your
Ningers communities

31. Social Networking In Plain English
from CommonCraft
http://isenet.ning.com

32. http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

33. Join us!
http://isenet.ning.com
http://isenet.ning.com/group/aimstechnologyretreat

35. enjoyable PD

41. Transformative learning moves a
student from someone who takes in
information to a reflective
practitioner involved with the
creation of knowledge.
Rena Palloff & Keith Pratt

42. …collaborative learning and
reflective practice are necessary for
transformative learning to occur.
Rena Palloff & Keith Pratt

44. Continuing Conversation

46. a Twitter post that will encourage
your faculty to join a social network
#AIMSTech09
by hand, by Tweat, by Ning

47. The more
teachers
involved in the
network , the
more value the
network has for
everyone.

48. AIMS Tech Retreat
April 2009
Laurie Bartels