Rising tide rasies all ships: The Power of community within education
Last week I spent time with my AVTF (Audio, Video Technology and Film- it’s what Georgia has branded video production) family, at a pair of conferences. The conferences overlapped and honestly frustrated me because I couldn’t fully engage with either. I wanted to soak up the lessons shared from both. But… my heart was so full I teared up as I drove away from one of the conferences the last day.
The Most Important Door in Georgia Video Production Education
SciFi is not the only place where you can enter a portal into another world. The outside door to room 305 at the Golden Isles College and Career Academy takes video production educators from around the state of Georgia to a world of real, relevant professional development.
Ross Video To Put The Professional In Professional Development
Ross Video announced that they are going to do a 10-week “TechTalk” series. The series will feature presentations, videos, and webinars announcing their latest launches and much more. CEO David Ross said in their release - and I can certainly echo that Ross is known to - “commit a huge amount of effort to the show and always have an incredible number of announcements.”
Free Professional Development Courses to Help Educators Move Curriculum Online
Casual chats over coffee seem like a distant memory for those self-isolating in our homes. For educators, these conversations sprouted new ideas for lesson plans, technology, and teaching methods. Especially during this virtual learning transition, these new ideas are the cornerstone of education innovation, and one company is fighting to bring them back.
What Professional Development Should Be
Camp T&I meets each year during the first week of June. It is a partnership between the Georgia Department of Education and the Career Technical & Agricultural Education Resource Network. I first attended Camp T&I in the summer of 2012. I was blown away. Not by the dark room in the back of a community college in Savannah. Or the lack of internet access. Or the fact that as teachers introduced themselves, I was the newest to the profession by 4 or 5 years. (And had only taught part-time…) I was blown away by the fact that all of those teachers shared so freely. Shared lesson plans. Shared successes. Shared failures. I knew immediately there was something special here.