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Hi Susan, I'm going to give a live play-by-play. Right now, Chrys Limardo, the COP Manager, is walking through the major components of LINCS: a Learning Portal hosting online self-paced and virtually facilitated courses, the COP, the PD Center, the LINCS Leaner Center, and the Resource Collection.
Our moderators today are:
Chrys Limardo, the COP Manager, will be facilitating the session.
In the room there are flip charts with the following stats. Participants are putting sticky notes next to the items that they have used. Online participants can indicate their participation here as well!
Participants in the room have used all aspects, but the most activity was around the website, the resource collection, online courses, and the COP.
Chrys asked those about why they post on LINCS? One participant in the room shared that they needed advice and remembered there was discussion on that topic in the COP.
Chrys noted that there is a way on LINCS to see how many people are on LINCS from every state.
Text 2233 TIMZIMMER387 with one word that describes an effective online community. Text one word - we're creating a live word cloud.
Words that were added are: useful, collaboration, broad, networking, convenience, pathways, collegial, informative, learning, free, convenience, informative, user-friendly
One COABE attendee shared from the session "One constant challenge I see is that most of us in the field, full-tme or part-time, are struggling to carve out or make time to participate in all the great PD opportunities that are available to us. I don't have any good solutions for that."
Thanks, Branka!
Part of that is we don't value or incentivize participation. Many of our workshop have online pre and post-work (reflection and implementation) required, and the most common question is "how do I get paid for that?" And it comes from the program end, too. We're working on a digital badge system for tech integration coaches, which entails a lot of professional development, and I've already heard from directors: Is this required? Who's paying for it?
Thanks for the perspective, Glenda! I'm curious if your instructors are required to have any certifications, or record of PD for contract renewal? If so, are completion certificates, with hours, a good incentive for staff to participate?
I tried texting to 2233 but it says the service is unavailable. My word is team building
team-building is a good one!
Members joining us online, please share what kind of support the LINCS platform can help provide you to address your professional challenges as an adult educator!
I have trouble using the LINCS platform effectively. I wish it were more like a google group. I think I would like more interactive features that people could use such as voice message, polling and perhaps some other unique interactive toosl
Great suggestions, Susan! Thanks. We do have a polling feature. What's one polling question that would be helpful for us to ask to help you, and others, get to know each other better?
Are you at COABE or are you NOTATCOABE?
Hi, Susan -
I'm participating remotely! Unfortunately, I'm not in Orlando.
Mike Cruse
How about a video stream like facebook live. Call it LINCS live.
Hi, Susan -
Great suggestion! Do you mean to have video stream for our webinars, and panel discussions in the community? Have you ever used Periscope? It's another great live video stream resource. We'll consider it in the future.
Mike Cruse
I have used Periscope to post on a twitter feed. It works well. That would be great to integrate. How do you use the polling feature?
Hi, Susan -
Right now, only moderators can initiate polls, which then appear in the thread of the community for which they're intended. If you have specific questions, try reaching out to the moderator of that community you'd want to poll, and they may be able to initiate a poll on that question/topic.
Mike Cruse
Chrys encouraged folks to continue posting in the COP, noting that our discussions today have received a lot of views showing that there are alot of people out there looking at posts.
David shared that he knows of a program that identified the areas of greatest interest and assigned one teacher to monitor one section of LINCS and report out.
Chrys thanked all the moderators and participants, both in-person and online. Please continue to use the suggestion box as a place to keep your feedback coming!
.... I'd scheduled this hour as "out of the lab" already to work on an online math project and... ended up getting so engaged in it that I forgot about this :( Apologies :( :( This is a great community and I wish I were at the conference -- maybe next year (hoping our state steps up and makes a budget)!