Collaboration and Capacity Building: Moving Beyond Random Connections

On Friday, December 5 from 2-3pm PT (5-6pm ET), we talked about moving beyond ‘random acts of connection’ to focus on advance the educator profession and deepen student learning.

This webinar was part of a two-month-long series recapping the 2014 Connected Educator Month – Post-Connected Educator Month: A “Connected” Mindset. Check out all the details at http://bit.ly/post-CE14

From this Series:

• Part 1—Student Agency, Voice, and the Maker Movement
• Part 2—Best Practices for Effective Blended Learning
• Part 4—Whole Community Engagement: Bringing Voices Together for Change

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During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtags #connectedlearning and #CE14.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Jenna Fournel – Communications and Alliance Strategist at National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Lisa Fink – Project Manager for ReadWriteThink.org at NCTE
• Michael Rifenburg – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Composition at University of North Georgia

Resources for this webinar:

• CEM 2014: “Collaboration and Capacity Building” theme
• Storify: National Day on Writing 2014, #WriteMyCommunity
• Webinar: student work from the 2014 National Day on Writing and what questions it raises about assessment
• CEM blog post: “Two Flavors of Collaboration Evident during Connected Educator Month”
• CEM blog post: “Building Capacity Systemically and Across the Community”
• CEM blog post: “Culture, Assessing Collaboration, and Connectedness”
• NCTE blog post: “Global Collaboration Around Education”
• NCTE blog post: “Collaboration Comes in All Shapes and Sizes”
• ReadWriteThink.org: access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction
• “Assessment Hot Seats” from the Collaboration & Capacity Building theme of CEM 2014
• NCTE’s ‘Position Statement’ on formative assessment
• CEM webinar series: “Creating Inter-organizational Collaboration for Educational Transformation (CrICET)”
• LiteracyInLearningExchange.org: a coalition to improve literacy learning
• Dec 10, 2014 webinar: “Game-Based Learning: Leveling Up Collaborative Planning”

Photos/connedteducators.org

#ConnectedLearning Discussion on Twitter