http://cathywint.co.uk/pln/ Cathy's Blog Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:42:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://cathywint.co.uk/pln/#comment-23 Cathy Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:25:43 +0000 http://cathywint.co.uk/?p=310#comment-23 This was probably one of my most overplanned sessions, in terms of amount of thought that went into it vrs no. of activities actually done in class!
The only paper I took into the session were some vignettes from EFL teachers on how they had used different CPD activities, such as recording yourself, journal prompts, materials groups. The plan for these were as a ‘filler’ task to be done while we waited for late-comers. Good job I did, as due to another training event I only had two people for the first 30 minutes!
The CPD case history went well, it was interesting to see how each trainee used different visuals to represent the activities they had been doing as well as hearing about the actual activities. Everyone talked about how different activities have impacted on their practice throughout the course, for one person the process of writing has been really important, while another has used a dictaphone to record herself.
Following this there were three groups looking at blogs, MAs and professional bodies which they researched and presented to each other. After this I showed my presentation on Twitter and talked about my ideas for asking tutors to engage with Web 2.0 technologies and take part in research to investigate the impact of this on their practice. I can;t say that I felt there was a great deal of enthusiasm for it. I need to think about if I want to approach particular people for this.

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