I am having a whale of a time doing the rounds at CPD Festivals, Scottish Learning Festival seminar, Orkney Integrated Children’s Services Festival and Shetland Islands In-Service event. Here are the links I promised all the participants.

Influences

Collegiality and impact - Richard Elmore’s work is highlighted here

Types of CPD - See a previous blog post on this topic

To find out more about the 4-stage model of CPD, read Margaret Alcorn’s paper on Teachers for Excellence 

Seen it, done it and bought the virtual T-Shirt

For general CPD information - try CPDScotland

For specific CPD opportunities, try CPDFind

To find out more about Glow, visit www.glowscotland.org.uk

To get regular CPD updates subscribe to the CPD team email bulletin

John Johnston and his CPD Collective can be seen on OpenSource CPD

Read and comment on Don’s Ledingham’s Learning Log

Even though we never got to see Andrew Brown on Glowmeet, please drop him a comment on his blog

Find out more about CPDReflect here   

If you have a Glow password

• why not join the CPDCentral professional community?
• Or try CPDReflect for yourself. You’ll be one of the first, so please feel to drop me a comment above

Finally here’s the t-shirt I promised all who attended!

prd-draft-paper.pdf

Clicking the link above will let you download the 1st draft of the PRD paper. It will posted on CPDConfer over the summer period and beyond for comment. In the meantime, the CPD team would be delighted if you could leave comments on this blog post!

Thank you

Jim

I had the privilege of talking to CPD coordinators in Edinburgh City Council and East Dunbartonshire Council. I had 10 minutes to give them the national picture on online CPD, so we didn’t stop to take notes!  I promised the links and here they are!

• For more information on the national CPD picture - CPDScotland 
• To find out about the national intranet - Glow
• The reflective toolkit is due in autumn and you can get information here - CPDReflect
• please sign up to the CPD update
• and, and … pick of the CPD pops! - CPDFind.

Oh did I mention signing up for the CPD update ?

PS The soundtrack for this presentation is ‘At the Sign of Swinging Cymbal’ - the theme tune for Pick of the Pops. You’ll need to provide that yourself!

I spent a very illuminating day with some of the EIS learning reps who came from all over Scotland to learn about our online CPD project, CPDScotland.

The 24 reps who attended over 2 sessions looked at, and discussed, the various aspects of the project, including the use of CPDFind and how Glow may become an invaluable tool for CPD.

In turn, I found out the variety of ways that EIS learning reps contribute to CPD in their local authorities. This varies from being an independent sounding board on CPD matters for their members, to the management and delivery of key aspects of CPD, including the role of professional recognition. I look forward to the day when EIS learning reps feature as providers of CPD in CPDFind.

It struck me that many of the EIS learning reps are well advanced in online CPD skills, given that some act as tutors for the Chartered Teacher programme in the University of Paisley, which is delivered online.

You can find out more about the work of the EIS learning reps on the EIS website.

Jim Buchan of LTScotland’s Glow team moves on today to pastures new with Cisco. He has been a valued source of advice for many aspects of the CPDScotland project. He has that tremendous ability to speak both ‘geek’ and education and an enormous amount of patience with eejits like me who don’t know their ’shibboleths’ from their ‘core IDs’. I know, I have no idea what they mean either! I do know when it came to translating the CPD team’s online visions into a technical reality, Jim was always there to help, for which many thanks!

Good luck with the new venture!