EdTech Team Teacher Leader Certificate

I have embarked on a journey to expand my teaching practice with technology by working through the EdTech Team Online Teacher Leader Certificate program which will help to hone my skills at using technology as a tool in my classroom. "EdTechTeam Teacher Leader Certificate is an online cohort that will inspire and empower teachers to make a difference in their classroom and change their learning environment.  A  Teacher Leader  is committed to the ideals of Courageous Leadership, Empowerment, Student Agency, Inspiring Spaces, and an Engaged Community."

Throughout the next several weeks, I will be posting and sharing projects and lessons designed throughout the six courses: Global Collaboration and Community, Project Based Learning, Flipped Learning, Visual Literacy, Assessment and Redesigning the Learning Space.

The first course was on global collaboration and community and developing our personal learning network. Participants in the program are located across the world and it has been very interesting

learning from new perspectives and also finding common ground in teaching philosophies. Check out this cool map of all the course participants. When you click on each icon on the map, there is a short introduction video about the person. Click here view the live map with the video links.

Our first big project was to collaborate with other cohort members to design a digital citizenship lesson and then the final component was to include a way for students to collaborate with others using social media or other online collaboration tool. I worked with Cathy and Cheryl to design a middle level web-quest. The lesson includes an opportunity for students to participate in a Twitter chat about being a good digital citizen. You can view the project by clicking here.