K12 Online Conference, Leadership Perspective, Next, OSSEMOOC

Being Intentional About NEXT

August 29, 2015 markwcarbone 1 Comment

As summer winds down and the sunset times are getting notably earlier, the start of a fresh school year is almost upon us. Generally, I sense a focus on anticipation for what will unfold, but within this notion, I find myself zeroing in on what will be different, what opportunities will come into play and how to bring change into effect.

I look forward to my continued work with Donna Fry on the OSSEMOOC project where we focus efforts on connected leadership and the importance of Now and NEXT. I have set a personal and group ‘NEXT’ for 2015/16 and thought I would share them in different formats to illustrate that there are many approaches to creating your online voice.

Personal:

— prepared with Tellagami which I learned about at #CATC15 —

Group:

Listen to the podcast:

What will your NEXT be? Join the conversation by sharing your plans via blog post, podcast, animation or video clip with OSSEMOOC by contributing to the collaborative project.

~Mark

CATC, Just pondering, Leadership Perspective, ProfessionalLearning, reflection

CATC Camp – digging in deeper

August 22, 2015 markwcarbone Leave a comment

Once again our annual summer computer camp, CATC By the Water, was a great learning experience. You can check out some of the learning and innovating thinking at: CATC Camp learning and sharing or CATC innovators.

One of my favourite conversations this year happened when I took the time to sit down with George Couros and Donna Fry to revisit a conversation from a year ago, where we debated why educators look to one well known lead or theory to follow rather than leveraging the room – the educators who are learning, changing, innovating and sharing publicly. After all, the smartest person in the room, is the room!

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Digging deeper into the conversation this year we talked about another angle that I believe is important in this discussion. Perhaps the most important element is not if fact “the one” vs “the room”, but each of us recognizing which one of these causes the personal disruption needed to learn, change, grow and share. After all, we each have a responsibility for owning our professional learning journey. Perhaps a good term for this would be “differentiated disruption“.

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Where do you stand: the one, or the room? What does it take to shake up or clarify your practice?

~Mark

CATC, Tech

Playing with Time

August 14, 2015 markwcarbone Leave a comment

As a relatively new GoPro user, taking advantage of the opportunities at CATC Camp seemed like the perfect opportunity to experiment and learn.

After some trial and error over the afternoon actually wearing the device to take some time lapse photo sequences, I decided to experiment with capturing the magnificent sunset view at Kempenfelt Centre.

After capturing the sunset with photos every 5 seconds over a 20 minute period of time, I imported the photo sequence into iMovie to render the sequence into a movie. Next, I re-imported the movie and added a “speed up” effect at a factor of x20 to produce this silent “one minute sunset” video.

Great learning for me. I wonder what I will do with the GoPro today?

~Mark

Just pondering, ProfessionalLearning

What Do You See?

August 8, 2015 markwcarbone 1 Comment

After enjoying a wonderful conversation with Jamie Weir today, I thought I would post this image as a point of pondering since part of our discussion explored the power of images.

What do you see? How does this image relate to possibilities?

I was thinking about the possibilities of personal learning … choice, many entry points, differently routes and choice of pace. Where will your journey lead you?

I invite you to share what you see. Please share your insights.

~Mark