{"id":2004,"date":"2021-06-06T15:56:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2021-06-08T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:57:51","slug":"day-6-my-top-edtech-cpd-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/day-6-my-top-edtech-cpd-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6: My Top EdTech CPD Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m noticing that initialisms are common in this June EdTech Challenge gig. I&#8217;m familiar with Continuing Professional Learning (CPL) and Continuing Professional Education (CPE), so I&#8217;m going to assume that CPD is Continuing Professional Development.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the things I do to continue my own professional learning, your mileage might vary but these have served me pretty well so far (note, this list is intentionally unordered):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Set up that RSS feed<\/strong> &#8211; I use <a href=\"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/personal-professional-development-in-instructional-design\/\">Feedly and follow a whole bunch<\/a> of different edtech, learning, UX, visual design, and elearning bloggers. I learn so much from these folks everyday, and it works better than other social media generally because the feed is categorized by me and\u00a0<strong>chronological<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LinkedIn Learning<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m fortunate to have access through my employer to this resource. I don&#8217;t use it a tonne, but when I need to learn a technical skill it is a great starting place. Even if I don&#8217;t end up directly applying the specific course to my work directly, it gives me conceptual tools to work better with others such as developers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fill your ears<\/strong> &#8211; I listen to Podcasts and Audiobooks regularly, although since the pandemic I don&#8217;t keep on top of them quite as well given my commute is now 30 seconds instead of 30-45 minutes. I find these particularly effective because they&#8217;re not about learning a specific skill, but hearing thoughts, challenges, successes, and insights from others in the field and other fields. Plus I can clean the house or do routine work while listening.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blog!<\/strong> &#8211; Blogging is actually something I&#8217;ve really struggled with in the past. What has helped is adopting the approach Stephen Downes uses at OLDaily, and a bit that Terry Greene promoted through the 9x9x25 thing a few years ago. Short posts as think-alouds, repsonses, or design <a href=\"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/category\/inarticulate-elearning-hero\/\">charettes<\/a> is a way for me to capture what I&#8217;m learning and engrain it more deeply. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a scholarly article, just blog it out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discuss<\/strong> &#8211; however you do it, either through social media, video call, face-to-face, whatever, talk to your friends and colleagues. Again, it doesn&#8217;t have to be something as formal as a journal club, but talk about the things you&#8217;re wondering about and doing with those around you. Moreoever, ask them about what they&#8217;re thinking about and doing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Join a professional organization<\/strong> &#8211; this edtech challenge is run by ALT, so you might already be a member there, great! I personally am a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/accp-caid.org\">ACCP-CAID<\/a> and learn from the workshops they put on throughout the year. Recently I&#8217;ve joined their board, and actually am learning quite a bit through that role as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What tips would you add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m noticing that initialisms are common in this June EdTech Challenge gig. I&#8217;m familiar with Continuing Professional Learning (CPL) and Continuing Professional Education (CPE), so I&#8217;m going to assume that CPD is Continuing Professional Development. 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