My Crazy Idea for Online PD Presentation

I have an experiment that I’d like to conduct, and need the assistance of my PLN to help pull it off. I would like you to take a look at the questions below and tweet your replies to one of more of them. It is essential to use the hashtag #onlinepd so I can aggregate the tweets using a tool called Visual Tweets. I first saw this visualization tool used at Educon 2.2 when Michael Wacker used it during his session on how to implement direct instruction in online classes. I plan on sharing your tweets this Wednesday when I go before the district staff development committee to present my ideas for including informal online PD for teachers as part of our program for professional development. VisualTweets will run on a screen as the meeting is getting underway. This is something I have never done before and welcome any comments, ideas and suggestions you have.

Here are some guiding questions for you to ponder/think about:

1. What would a district program utilizing online PD look like?
2. How should teachers document their online PD experiences?
3. What experiences have you personally had with online PD?
4. What are the benefits of online PD for teachers?
5. What are some great resources for online PD?  Please include links to services/groups/blogs etc.
6. Where can teachers go for free online PD?
7. What have you learned about online PD?
8. What does the research say about online PD for teacher?
9. How would you define or describe online PD for teachers?
10. Do you know of any great quotes/comments about online PD?

Later in the week I will write a follow up post to share all of your ideas so that others who are exploring the option of online PD can benefit. I’m hopeful that my district will be able to create a model for other schools to follow.  Please share your thoughts as you think of them on Twitter.  I will tweet the call for help several times over the next few days and would appreciate the retweets as well as your thoughts.