Hot on the heels of a successful inaugural flipped faculty meeting (FFM) in January, our school held another one in lieu of our traditional weekly faculty meeting on February 25, 2013. Things seemed to run a little more smoothly in general simply because it wasn’t our first time at this particular…
Category: Professional Development
How We Flipped Our Faculty Meeting
On January 14, 2013, my school held its first “Flipped Faculty Meeting” (FFM). Just as the “flipped classroom” model seeks to relegate rote content delivery to non-class time and make more efficient use of face-to-face (F2F) time in class, the idea of the flipped faculty meeting – at least…
EdcampNJ Two Weeks Later
EdcampNJ on December 1 kicked off one of the the busiest periods of the school year so far for me, so I haven’t had much time to sit and collect my thoughts on it until now. Much of what I’ve said before about Edcamps still applies; it was great to flatten…
EdcampNJ Is Almost Here!
Just a quickie post to further publicize an upcoming Edcamp event with which I am involved – EdcampNJ! If you’re not familiar with Edcamp/ “unconference” events, here’s how I described the event this past summer: Most of you who read blogs by educators are at least passingly familiar with Edcamp, the…
Unconferencing the University
Last week saw my second of two Edcamp/unconference events in as many months: first was Edcamp Leadership at the end of July, then came WilmU LeaderCamp on August 11. WULC was hosted by the university at which I am a doctoral student, Wilmington University, and organized by four doctoral students: Chrissi Miles,…