Pretzels and Peanuts: How to make sure everyone at the bar is thirsty: lessons from a seasoned drink mixer
David Theriault
- Always take your pictures landscape. Why? Because you're going to put them in a presentation or a keynote, and you want to use them later :)
- For PD with teachers:
- DON'T talk about the APP first, talk about the PROBLEM first!
- "Do you struggle with _____________" "I have an app for that"
- Rather than "Come learn about [this app]"
- Use short videos at the beginning of PD that will help set the mood and get teachers ready for the day.
- Find them on YouTube, Vimeo
- Speed Dating / Speed Geeking
- Traditional Speed Dating Setup
- 10 rooms, 10 topics to choose from, 10 minutes only. 1 minute rotations. 4 sessions (less than an hour). Students can do things!! Don't all have to do with tech.
- Twitter Chats on campus
- All in the same room (cafeteria) - thread projected on screen. For those that aren't on Twitter, write their answer on paper and have someone on Twitter take a picture of their writing to include them in the chat.
- Run a "Slow Chat" (weeklong twitter chat)
- Use "fortunately, unfortunately" style
- Takeaways from PD sessions:
- Write down what they want to implement on the block.
- Write down the "stumbling block" that will hinder them from implementing it
- Discuss and decide how to change the "stumbling block" to a "building block"
- Thinklink:
- Use for sharing resources
- Interesting idea about a way to present information to teachers... hmm...
David's Thinglink
Our Thinglink
See David's Thinglink above for links about these.
- Getting Teachers on Twitter
- David used a Bacon Doughnut Twitter Hunt... tweeted that there were doughnuts hiding in teacher's classroom who did use twitter. They could go get a doughnut if they learned about Twitter. Got a few more teachers on Twitter ;) Find the "bait" to pull them in.
- High Five Challenge: Give high fives or handshakes to every single student every day for a month.
- Empathy is huge - they have to know you care about them and not just your job.
- Even if it seems like it's not "productive" (going out to lunch, informal conversation) - this is huge because it shows you care about them and not just getting them to do things.
- Involuntary Curiosity Sparks - read this article later
- Javier Perez on Instagram - draws pictures out of ordinary objects. We all had to do it... here is my attempt at drawing...
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