CPDAnswers

There are a number of actions you might want to take to follow up a CPD opportunity using Glow. This help post supports the use of the ‘follow-up’ panel on CPDMeets and other CPD opportunities on Glow

Say thank you

Select this to send a wee email to the CPD leader or organiser of the opportunity. Many colleagues do this already and this will save you a wee bit time!

Add an intention

Members of the CPD communities on Glow are encouraged to declare an intention to the all of CPDCentral. There’s less chance of you forgetting to do it. These are usually displayed in date order on the community. You can see the CPDCentral intentions here

Endorse this opportunity

If you think a CPD opportunity will have a real impact on your practice, then maybe you should think of endorsing this opportunity. Others can then be better informed about their choice of CPD. More : How do I endorse an opportunity on CPDFind?

Add to your CPD record

If you keep your CPD profile on CPDReflect, selecting this link takes you to the ‘quick add’ option for the CPD record section.  More : What is CPDReflect?

Find more …

Select this to find similar modes of CPD on CPDFind. For example, if you are coming from a CPDMeet it will list the CPDMeet opportunities catalogued on CPDFind.

Find more on this subject

Seelct this to search for the same subject on CPDFind. For example, if you are coming from a CPDMeet on interdisciplinary learning, it will list all the CPD opportunities that mention  interdisciplinary learning on CPDFind.

Most of the CPDShorts come from publicly available sources such LTScotland, TED TV, Journey to Excellence. So why put them in a place on Glow where I have to apply to join a ‘group’? There are a couple of reasons but it’s mainly about encouraging professional learning beyond stage 1 – raising awareness . See CPDScotland’s section on the 4 stages of CPD. To move to stages 2 and 3, I really need the support of colleagues.

To see those colleagues on Glow (using Who’s enrolled on this CPDShort?) you need to have an enrolment system. To that extent, it’s more like a small-scale, face-to-face CPD event. There aren’t many of these you get to visit anonymously!

In addition, Glow allows us to share thoughts and examples of practice as well as prompts to take your professional learning further in the cpdshort+ section. See the New to CPDShorts section on Glow for more details of this.

Suggestions are always welcome on how to improve collegiate CPD online!

CPDShorts are think-pieces hosted on Glow (see What are CPDShorts? for more details)

However, where you see this CPDShort+ symbol, the CPDShort developer has added links to some suggested additional activity. For example:

• cpdshort+cpdreflect - you might use CPDReflect to create a journal entry or add to your CPD plan and record. Because you are already logged into Glow, the links take you directly to your CPDReflect area
• cpdshort+cpdfind – use CPDFind to identify related CPD opportunities.
• Share with a colleague. There may be some text you can copy to use in emails, text messages etc to pass to colleagues.

Visit the CPDShort help group… 

If you can improve on this advice, please leave a comment, thanks!