 on there Hi everyone Welcome to our first live event of the edgy ghost MOOC. We're so excited that you're joining us We actually have participants from all over the world joining us So we'll be looking at a map of all these very exciting Participants and you can see how diverse we are, but we are still looking at fill up those Points in the map. So you are welcome to join it is a free online course and You can earn badges for each of the five weeks until March the 23rd You can sign up and this is about fun Ministry of Education in Spain and in tap and they have tons of other MOOCs You can join well today We're gonna have we have teachers from all over the world educators from all over the world Who are joining us to give us their expert advice on achieving goals as Educators learning online, especially with the MOOC sometimes, you know It might sound a little overwhelming 500 teachers from all over the world or more So they're gonna give you their expert advice how to keep motivated and also something really important for all teachers Which is wellness and balance how to balance it all these educators know how to do it They've been doing it for a while. So I'm gonna quickly just say their names Let you know where they're from so you can get to know them and then they're gonna go ahead and tell you a little bit more about them afterwards, okay, so First I do want to talk about our moderators in the background. We have Fabiana Cassella that she's from Argentina So she's gonna be helping moderate as well throughout the five weeks And then we also have Kelly Jake Duncan who is my partner with Savannah our daughter over here He's located in Texas and then I'm in Texas Shelly Sanchez Terrell We're gonna go ahead and start with a panelist over here all We're traveling all the way around the world to Greece and we have Christina C from Greece She's a teacher there and we also next tab from Portugal. We are in Portugal We have Christina Silva and then we have Lisa Javs in California then Nikki Robertson in Texas who used to be in Georgia So and then we go back to Greece with the adored pap So I'm so excited to hear from you all today and let us know a little bit more about you And what you're doing and we'll start with Christina C in Greece Hi everyone thank you Shelly, thanks everyone for joining this is such an incredible moment And I have to say that because it's 30 goals have been such a big part of my life for the last few years I'm teaching in Athens in Greece and My passion is Projects basically project-based learning and game-based learning and I also divide my time by surveying Local associations like diesel grease here in Athens So I'm really looking forward to more of this going on and I'm really happy to be joining you And Christina in Portugal Hi everybody, I'm Christina Silva. I'm from Portugal. I've been a teacher for more than 20 years now I teach English and I also like to work in projects I'm very thankful for Shelly for being here and for having me here and to see all these people with whom I've been working for the past years. We've known each other for ages. That's the feeling I have What else can I say I'm a mom of two I like projects as I said before and Actually right now I'm engaged in a lot of them the 30 goals also changed my life But we will come to that a bit later. I'm very happy to be here Well, I think you're definitely right that it feels like a family with each of you You've been such an important part of the journey and we'll go with that we'll go to California with Lisa Dabs Hey everybody Lisa Dabs here, and it's such an honor and privilege to be here with all of you I am in California as Shelly has shared and Shelly has actually stayed with me here in California And it was so much fun when she came to celebrate a birthday with me a couple of years ago I am a former elementary school principal and I was an administrator for 19 years And I am an educational consultant now and an adjunct professor and my journey in Leaving the building and moving into social media and blogging is all due to Shelly Because when I left the building in 2010 I met her on Twitter in October of 2010 and we connected then because I answered a question on her blog So more about that later as Christina said, but it's my honor and privilege to be here with all of you today and Lisa she mentioned that now also she is a pretty much Has inspired so many new teachers by supporting them with all her new teacher projects and also with principal leadership So Lisa you have helped so many Keep motivated But I know we'll hear a lot about more about that later and then we go to Nikki Robertson in Texas now Hi So I am Nikki Robertson. I'm a school librarian. I just retired from Alabama after 25 years there Packed up and moved to Texas and now I'm a librarian again down here. So I'm enjoying every minute of it. I was The last 12 years I was high school librarian and now I'm back in elementary school and just loving being with the little ones but I love what Lisa said about how she connected with you Shelly because 2010 was that magical year for me as well when I connected with you in the 30 goals and it absolutely Changed my life and we'll get into that later. I'm sure more into that But I'm I'm so grateful to you and all the wonderful people that I've been able to meet and make friends with through the 30 goals Well, you're gonna get me to tear up Later and then the adora as well half in Greece the adora. What do you have to you? Hi people. Hi. I am the adora for Panagiotto and I am into Saloniki in northern Greece I teach English and German here in the Saloniki. I also instruct spinning and I am into yoga I'm really grateful that I'm here with you because 30 goals has totally changed my life it kept my sanity first of all and kept me motivated and I also met some wonderful educators took part in other projects as well and Right now I am into kinesthetic projects with my students and also Try to find wellness and mindfulness together with other teachers and students and that's gonna be really important when we talk and address that question on You know motivating not only ourselves. That's definitely a big part of it. We're gonna get more student motivation next week Definitely that's you know, I know wellness and The growth mindset and and there's a lot of different types of ways to keep our students also balanced So I think that's really important We'll go ahead and let Fabiana Cassella also introduce herself because she's from Argentina and She's helping moderate in Argentina. So you can get to know a little about her as well Hello everyone, I'm so happy to be here with you It's really an honor. I hope you can hear me. Well, and I don't know much What to say because I mean seeing you again. It's as if you were here with me at home and It was life-changing I mean connecting online and And all the motivation and exchange of ideas and projects Being all that has been wonderful and it is an honor. I really mean it from the heart Well, I'm really thankful that you're gonna be healthy moderate the next five weeks And so definitely you'll see Fabiana quite a bit Jake would introduce himself, but he's currently with our one-year-old daughter We're gonna go ahead and start with the first question so we can get insights from our experts and we're gonna start with Christina see In grace Christina, can you let us know a little bit about the 30 goals journey just like some of those aha moments for you or Moments that just really inspired you and kept me motivated to be a goal-minded teacher Certainly What has been really Transforming for me is that it came the 30 goals came into my understanding and my Surroundings at a time where I was just about to make a jump from working for a school to being a freelance teacher And I was really overwhelmed I felt overwhelmed by everything that was going on around me and having something that I can actually Pinpoint that I want to do this thing and I want to do the other thing and set it as a goal and then Also reflect upon it not just say I want to do something but reflect write about it Discuss about it without the teachers that has been an incredible moment for me I've always believed in how the communities of teachers come together and with the 30 goals This is what I experience meeting incredible Educators not just from my country, but from all over the world helped me because I could set my mind on something Try it out with my students and have a whole group of teachers support me on this and Comments on what I was doing. So it really has transformed the way I looked at things It helped me reflect even more. It helped me put my reflections into practice as well. And I urge everyone to just Make that decision to just Decide what they want to do and know that there's always going to be support from everywhere around them in the teaching world I think that's really important that you point out about the reflection because each of you I Invited because you were so Incredible incredible with sharing your journeys, you know and and accomplishing, you know, whether it was Motivating your students whether it was integrating technology whether it was, you know engaging parents each of you were really honest in your reflections and Influenced so many and offered so much support to other teachers and even started your own projects Which I know the adoras could have mentioned her we are the role You know, we are on the air project later. So I really appreciate that, you know you're all very strong reflections and We are sharing their logs of our expert panels in the Facebook group and also on Twitter You can follow on the conversation if you have edgy goals move You've been seeing that on the Twitter. So you can share with that and from there. We'll go to Christina In port to go to share her journey Hi, so my experience with the 30 goals happened quite some years ago and when I came across the 30 goals and when I came across Shelly I have been teaching for way too long and Actually, I started teaching in the 20th century not in the 21st century So and when this happens there's a time that routine sort of takes over your work takes over your life and Habits you tend to get stuck to habits you tend to get stuck to methodologies and the way you taught and They had worked Fine until then but the audience that you have now is different I mean the kids the students you have now are different from the ones you had when you started teaching and Somehow I was at the point that I Sensitive that I need is something different. I Just didn't know where to go or what to do and that's when suddenly all of a sudden I bump Literally into Shelly Terrell and the 30 goals and I said maybe Maybe because at first that was a whole new world for me Everything online was so new that I was a bit Both scared and overwhelmed by the whole thing. So I started slowly Going through and and first I was just lurking around just reading what other people were Writing and I was reading their blogs and their comments and suddenly I became more confident and I started joining and participating in webinars and so on and the 30 goals brought me What was? lacking at the time reflection So I pick Christina's words and I think reflection Was an and sharing of course was what? actually transformed my way of Seeing my teaching and things started changing for me and I Started changing my classes. I Sensitive that the students started to feel more motivated because I was changing. I was more motivated. I don't want to go a bit Too further because we will be coming to these questions later on But what the 30 goals have brought me was this a whole community of people who actually thought the same way? I did and Besides all this they've been mind-sharing Because part of my life was spent with people who actually Tried to hit their work so that it would in a sort of way work better than I did Which was the culture at the time? Shelly, please interrupt me if I'm talking I don't know and I don't get started. I never stop Hey, I I think what you said is is actually quite The experience of some of the teachers that are our educators joining us You know, we have I think now 500 participants around the world and it grows every day And some of them probably believe you know in the MOOC the same thing there You know like you said that it was it was new overwhelming So I think you're you're really touching on a lot of the experiences of teachers joining And I think also as well for a MOOC in general or any kind of online Journey even 30 goals. It wasn't a MOOC, but it was you know a challenge and there's so many challenges That are so rewarding. I mean there's there's evil sessions right now I think a lot of teachers sometimes feel that you know, I knew you know And I think that's really great that you're saying that, you know, like sharing that experience and from that experience of new in there might be among you even teachers and and so Christina you were saying how you were a veteran teacher for many time, you know for many years And then you needed that rejuvenation like that that verse and then Now we go to Lisa dabs who works with maybe you're a brand-new teacher and you think wow I just found online, you know PLN personal learning Networks and things like that. So Lisa you let us know a little Lisa actually what I should know about Lisa is that Lisa was actually Setting goals for new teachers. So she kind of took on Like she was with me as a facilitator in a way that she would You know and focused on And then later on on leadership as well. So Lisa Hi everybody Yeah, and shelly, you know, it's so interesting. I was going back to my blog right now and I was looking at I Joined you for two full runs of the 30 goals challenge So you recall and I said shelly I would love to do that But I'd like to do it from the perspective of supporting new teachers and you were like, okay Well, you know, let's go ahead and do that So one of the things shelly that the 30 goals did for me though back in that day was because I was new to blogging and I was new to using Podcasting is it completely stretched because I had to begin to blog You know almost every other day and that was not something I was familiar with and I was podcasting Which I had never done Because when I was in the building as somebody said, you know My teaching began like Christina back in the 20th century to and we didn't have all the tools that we have accessible to us now I was very innovative You'll be surprised as a principal though because my big thing was increasing the infrastructure in our school So we could have better Internet access believe it or not the internet access at our schools back in the in the Early 2000s was terrible. So, you know, I was always advocating for that in my schools However, we didn't have these amazing tech tools that we had now. So and we used internet Explorer. Oh my gosh We're horrible, but when I joined But anyway, it was so incredibly Life-changing for me shelly because you your goals really pulled me out of the building pulled me out of where I had been as a school principal for you know 19 years and It I don't want to say forced but it did force me to have to look at things differently and to be more creative And then in the context of that as I blogged about the 30 goals I was blogging about how a new teacher might use them. So that was really Kind of life-changing for me, too But lastly, I want to say is it really helped me to become more creative I really felt that when I was in The school building as a principal. I had lost a lot of my creativity I mean, I remember dancing and twirling and playing in trees as a little girl And when I was a school principal, it was so structured. It was so focused. It was so So many mandates right so many focused areas that we need to keep as a principal so many Rules and structures, you know to protect our kids to protect our our teachers and and to keep moving in terms of curriculum but the 30 goals allowed me to find my creativity and So I'm really really grateful to you for helping me to do that and I hope that along the way I might have tapped into that with some of the teachers that I blog with so thank you so much Shelley for that Well, I know that you have you've helped so many including me You're constantly I think it with you and I we go back and forth like constantly like project after project motivating each other and Going on that idea of supporting each other because I think that's a one really huge thing about being goal-minded a teacher We say that and what really inspires that and keeps us going. I believe is is Our networks we find like we call that personalized, you know personal learning networks I call it passionate learning networks Just why I keep getting the PLN thing wrong because I call it passionate learning network and network since I'm surrounded by teachers Like you and I think one of the the people to really talk about this that it goes to the heart of it They've seen time again really You know get teachers Motivated about it is Nikki Robertson Who is in now in Texas? I kept saying you were in Georgia because I met you at the Georgia conference But you came from out of it. I'm up and now you're in my neck of the woods an hour away So Nikki will you share with us your experience? My journey and you know, I tell this journey wherever I go and I always start crying Because you know, even though it happened in 2010. It's still So touches me as to how my life has been completely transformed not just professionally, but personally as well So like Lisa, I stumbled across the 30 goals challenge In 2010 but before that I had been teaching for a long time. I started teaching in 1992 and This was 2010 and I was a completely burned-out librarian I was coming to work and doing the bare minimum to get a paycheck and that's all and Then I started seeing in periodicals coming into the library these strange little squares White squares with the black on them QR codes and I was like, what are those QR codes? What are these and I started researching because you know librarians we research So I started researching them and then I got really angry Because when I started to research QR codes on the magazines that were coming in I started seeing teachers that had been using QR codes for two or three years already in Their classrooms in their libraries to enhance student learning and I was angry because my school district hadn't taught me about them because from 1992 up until 2010 I Depended on my school and my district to bring professional learning to me And I didn't realize that I was empowered to go out search and find my own professional learning and so I Said on a journey to find out. Well, how did these other teachers know about QR codes if I didn't are there? Do our third district's just better at professional development than mine? What's the deal? How do these teachers know about these things and I don't and What I discovered is that they didn't sit around and wait for learning to come to them They empowered themselves to be learners and continuous learners even though they were no longer in college They had been teaching for a long time. They wanted to continue that learning path And I started looking for professional developments online But you know, you get those cheesy professional developments that don't really teach you anything and cost you so much money And I was like, no, I need free. I'm a teacher. I need free and I just by chance stumbled across the 30 goals challenge and I saw the 30 goals and I was thinking well darn I missed it. You probably had to start this at the beginning of the year and it wasn't the beginning of the year and Then I realized that and this is what I tell people is you can start it anytime you want You can choose one goal two goals do all 30 goals You can start with goal 15 if you'd rather start with goal 15 There is nothing saying you had to start with goal one and work your way through to goal 30 And if you don't like that year's goals, go back to some other years You know and find something but what I found that it does for teachers who are wanting to do something different Fear holds you back because you don't know where to start and what the 30 goals did for me is it gave me a starting place and I could choose where I felt I I Felt comfortable starting and then from there I could move on But I did hit a point because one of the first goals I started with was joining in the Twitter chats with Ed chat Which you Jerry and Tom would be had all started around that same time, too Well, what I tell people about becoming a connected educator is it's not all sunshine rainbows and lollipops What happens at first is it's a horribly Emotional trip when you start connecting on Twitter and Twitter chats and becoming a connected educator because You're surrounded by these incredible Superstar educators that are doing amazing things and you're like, oh my god, I've been terrible Educator my whole life. What have I been doing and you start to completely doubt and question yourself and and I Was trying to hang on I was looking that I only had eight years to retirement and I got to those crossroads where I thought Am I going to do something different? That's going to be tough and hard But it's going to be worth it in the long run, which I didn't know then or am I just going to skate for the next eight years and collect a paycheck until I can get out and One night in particular I was feeling particularly overwhelmed after an ad chat and Full of self-doubt and full of I can't do this and I emailed Several people that I connected with, you know, superstars that I connected with through the ad chat and just said, you know Thank you for the journey. Thank you for sharing all that you've done with me But I'm not this person or that person and I can't I'm not a superstar. I'm nobody and I just can't do this so Continue the journey with others, but I'm gonna go down this path and retire in it years, but thank you Because I can't I don't have it in me to be a superstar or a rock star Or to even be better than what I am right now today And that was about ten o'clock at night and I had to get up at five o'clock the next morning to get ready for work And I really didn't expect anyone to contact me because who was I? nobody and They were superstars But when I woke up at five, I said, you know what? Look at your email. Nobody's gonna ever respond, but look at your email And I did and every single person that I connected with emailed me back They had emailed me back by five o'clock that morning And they all had the same message for me, which was basically hanging their girl Don't leave you can do this Just be a better person today and then tomorrow try again and then the next day try again And we will all have your back and one thing I know for sure about the 30 goals in the community that I've been able to connect with Online my PLN is that every single step of the way They have had my back nothing. I've been able to accomplish since 2010 is Because of me, but it's because of the community That's been pushing me forward and supporting me throughout my journey And I'm at a place now where I never thought it would be and I am so happy that I did not take that other path And it's all because I connected with shell and the 30 goals Well, that's just so amazing and I think I think one of the great things you talk about which is You know part of any journey people go on whether it's you know taking an online course like this and move that it's That it's all the people that you meet it's all the people who take time and all each of you is Overwhelmingly busy. I know this because I talk with you all the time you join all these crazy things I ask you to do I you make room for it Even though I know each of you has a million things you're doing But one of the great things and I think is it's wonderful about each of you is that not only did you You know, some of you had support, but you've passed it forward like you each of you is responsible for inspiring like So many teachers out there with your projects and things like that and talking about that the adora is a great example I even you know put her and I mentioned all of you in the book, but you know part of you know one of the the chapters really highlighted one of the adora's projects because You know, she took something that you know was just like a goal and decided that she was gonna be someone who mentors and and supports others and gets their classes and other students excited and it was the same kind of idea like He and I think that you know, sometimes when we go online, we see you know, some people even tell me You know, it looks a little overwhelming. They're like, wow, you have so many followers your rock star or something I don't like that term, but I know that's like a popular term. That's with stealth, you know, that's out there and that's But I think that that they see all of you and they think the same thing rocks and some of you, you know I think that was great. Like the adora Just said, you know, I'm just gonna start things. I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do that and she did and I just think that that's amazing So the adora will you share with us, you know, we're getting this confidence you, you know accomplishing goals and the things that you experienced Well, I don't consider myself a confident person Actually When I started the 30 goals, well, I had met Shelly in Athens She had presented her project back in the beginning, but I didn't actually I hadn't actually started until Much later a summer when I was really depressed. I didn't know what to do with my life I didn't have work because in the summer if you're freelance, you don't have anything to do. So I said, okay let's read Shelly's blog and see what she's doing and Yeah, I didn't have anything else to do. So I gave it a try I already had a blog but nobody read it because if you don't have the right PLN to You know to share things you can't actually find on your own readers or People to read you have to have connections So I wrote one post and then I wrote another and I actually saw that People were reading what I had to say and I also saw that teachers also and shared My worries my concerns my joys We all got happy with the same things and we all got sad with the same things and That year when the On the air project started I wanted to do something with myself Because I had already presented in conventions in Greece, but not on my own I wanted to do something on my own. So I took this goal I dared myself and I said okay. I want to find people to help me Do something I posted on or I posted this on our Facebook page and I was lucky enough to find Christina from Portugal and Fabiana from Argentina and Georgia from the Saloniki as well who is my friend and also Hanna from the Czech Republic and we all started something together with our classes with our students We cooperated our students Had difficulties of course, but we all talked to each other and we tried to find solutions And in the end it came out a really nice project And I'm really really grateful that you have us selling your book because I know that people can do things if they want to And that's the main thing. So I I think that I have found a lot of support First of all and whatever project I want to start now I know that I can ask you I can ask everybody from the group and you all Are there for me for my project and I'm there for you of course And that's where it keeps me motivated that keeps my enthusiasm going as and I think you know one of the great things about that we are on the air project And I know Christina was part of it, too. So I just thought that It it involved like and that's the other thing about this as well I'm not I think Nikki touched on this as well, which was Sometimes we see these teachers doing great things with technology Like for example, we saw With the we are on the air project the adora you had them students actually do video and introduce their cultures and I When we use technology I think it's great to have projects and and aim for it. Like what can we do together? You know, it's not only about learning the tools and things like that, but Online learning like this really inspires you it gives you a purpose a meaningful purpose And you get to meet all of these incredible teachers and and the students get to meet each other from other countries And I just thought that part of it was really amazing I know each of you kind of touched on the next question, but I want to go ahead and if you want to share any other tips on How do you keep motivated as a teacher yourself now some of you talked about that, but what would you? you know to keep Really focusing on accomplishing different goals within your classroom, you know to in more getting on like Tackling different areas because that's one thing as a teacher. It's never just, you know, you're presented with one obstacle at a time It's a whole bunch of things we're expected to do we're expected to engage parents We're expected to have great classroom management. Like, you know, we're expected to into great technology We're expected to do our own professional development now So we'll start with the adora and if you can offer tips on how you just keep up with all of that Well, I make lists. I'm a list person. So I write everything from the beginning of the year I write everything down what I want to do and even with my students or if I have a class with my classes and We set goals and We tick them when they are over and we set more goals in the Continuing the year, but if you have a list and you you see what you want to do Then it's easier. I guess even if we have difficulties. We have to do this because it's on the list Okay, that's a great tip a Nikki what would be I will go then Nikki then Lisa and then Christina S and then Christina C Well, I'm glad you asked this question Shelly because the question I get asked a lot is How do you keep up with all all the new stuff that's happening because especially technology? There's so much new stuff happening. So of course having appeal in is really important because if they go to a conference You don't go to and they're sharing that stuff out via social media. You can pick that up, but I also troll Conference hashtags especially a tech conference hashtags and I'm looking constantly for those and I'll also go out for ad camps and I look for their Smackdown Documents because a lot of ad camps when they do their Smackdown They they have like a Google doc with everything that was shared during the Smackdown. So I Actively troll. I also have I use it's a flip board. I don't know if you've heard of flip board before It's an app and it can aggregate all of your Tweets and other social media into like a magazine style and So then I can just sit there and quickly each night. I just kind of flip through the headlines and then save things that look interesting to me or something that I might want to look at further to use with my kids and In the classroom. So just you know staying in touch with your friends Knowing what hashtags to follow and then having something to aggregate all the the different information That's out there into one place To easily get to it and then don't be afraid to try new things And well, I think those are great resources you shared because I know this now that I am a social You know media director for some different places T. So I have to share Knowledge, you know resources all the time and that would take forever if I just went through my PLN So I've been looking through like flip boards paperleaves You know all of those really do help so much with you know, just showing you the great stuff in your Twitter stream Like there's I think that's a really good tip Lisa well, I have to piggyback on what Everyone has said so far, but the way that I'm staying motivated is I'm actually stepping outside the our education circles, so I am reading books written by social media Marketers if you will who actually call themselves educators people like Gary Vaynerchuk a Woman that I adore Amy Porterfield Marie for Leo And what I'm finding is Shelley we can learn so much from these people that we don't learn When we're in college or in the university and so when I approach my work as an adjunct professor Because you and I have talked about this before and how teaching adults is so different from teaching Children and teaching adults face-to-face when you're on when you're teaching online It might be a different experience, but when you have to step into that classroom and you have all these Preservice teachers looking at you because I teach for in the child development division at the university that I teach for It's a different experience. They're coming exhausted. They're coming tired. They really don't want to be there You know, they pop up their laptops and they want to sit at the back of the classroom and you know pretend like they're Looking at me, but they're really checking out their Facebook screen I find that I get my motivation from reading outside of our Education landscape Which motivates me to try new things with my class the other thing that I did and I and I agree with what? Nikki said is I stretched myself by taking courses produced by non educators to help me to see how I might be able to do my own teaching In a different style or a more creative style. And so I really stretched this year Ladies and I last year rather and I jumped into Marie Forleo's B school Now if you don't know about B school, I urge you to Google it because it's opening up again this March it is a bit of a financial Commitment, but she lets you pay a monthly and ladies the info I received was Amazing and invaluable and I'm able to take that 10-week course and apply it to the work that I do so to recap I think we need to read out of our industry and see what other people are doing And I think we need to take courses out of our industry that challenge us so that when we work with our students Whether they're children or and you know my case adults we can bring some of that current knowledge to to them And then help them to learn how they could adapt there because sometimes my students will say well How would I do that or they'll say well? How can I do blogging and I'm thinking oh Pomp to forehead Ready to dial this back and I need to listen you're taking it too far so those were just be some of the things that helped me to stay motivated, but I'm really challenging some of my Administrators and a thriving admin in a group that I'm in in boxer to do that as well to look outside of the education landscape And see how the folks that are doing things in other industries can impact how we do our work and make it better Well, I think that's a great tip. Jake is you know with the baby right now But he has you saw the books in the background and he reads So much from other people You know, he asked so many books on all these different people with social media also with the culture I mean in he's always You know introducing me to new ideas that are outside of their own of education but still very much like give a highlight of The impact of social media and the way people use it to learn to live that I apply with my You know freshmen in college since I teach college English And I think it's a good You know my inspirations we listen to a lot of podcasts Those really help us. I know a lot of teachers also get inspired by TED Talk So I think that's a really good tip from there. We'll go to Christina. I'm poor to go How do you keep motivated and? Continue setting goals in your career You know Shelly, I get bored very easily So I have to be motivated all the time. I have to search for new things I'm always searching for new things. I need that it this could be a bit selfish because I'm not just only thinking about my students I'm thinking about myself. I have to keep myself going and so I do all sort of things and to do that I have to also like Lisa just said I have to piggyback on some of the things you just mentioned like reading blogs like following Facebook groups whatever things and What I do is what I said before Reflect I stop I also make lists like Dora and I say, okay This is what I want. So this is what I'm going to do and I'm really focused on technology I think that with this new generation that we're having this digital natives We need to use technology in class to motivate them. So That's a sort of a path. I usually take so I grab all the new stuff I get in my Pearl trees That I got to know through you Shelly So I get all my Apps here all the things that I consider important. I keep them here. It's a curating tool and And they training so I look for all sorts of MOOCs Online MOOCs, obviously, they're online if they're a MOOC so I follow a lot of MOOCs and Also, whenever I had the chance I I attend courses and conferences Not only online, but I think that's the main thing and then in class. I always try to do as different as possible and To do that you have to observe your audience You have to observe the people you're working with you mentioned adults you mentioned teenagers you mentioned Young learners so you go into the classroom you look around and you see what you can do and That's what I do basically I Think that's important when you said so it's not and that touches on the you know and the next question We're gonna have for a follow-up, but That you talk about online learning curation and bookmarking all that and that's such an important part of you know, all of us of Knowing this knowledge and learning from each other is not only do you is it great to have a blog where you can reflect on How you use that and gather it but those curation tools you're talking about proletaries. I know some people love Pinterest We're using Pinterest. We actually have Pinterest for this course that we're pinning all the Reflections and everything. I know some people like to use life finders. That's really great for education edgy Clipper really great for edgy Clipper For you know flip boards and other curation tool so having I think that's a very important you know to be able to have where you can bookmark everything you learned and I want to say that I looked at your blog and you have so much information About all the great books that you've joined and I think Something that people do with the MOOCs too is now they're starting to keep sketch notes to be able to You know about the learning their experience as well So that's something I want to try I haven't tried yet, but I think that's really fascinating on how People continue to be inspired by curating and curating and very creative artistic ways like that like even sketch noting So Christina and Grace so what would be your tips for? You know for staying motivated trying new things and keeping up with this the different technologies. I Will have to agree with everything that's been said so far on the whole it is have certainly You know overwhelming when everything just comes at you at high speed For me It's definitely because I've kind of been on my mind. Sometimes I feel like it's a chaos So I do follow the chaos theory a little bit I mean, I try I've tried making lists, but I'm terrible at keeping the list going So it's not working for me So what I want what I want to say mainly is that it really boils down to how How you find motivation I find motivation through what my students can achieve and want and that includes the whole environment so I always try to have Meetings is doing it online or in you know face-to-face is a choice But I always try to have a meeting with all my students together Whether that's on a hangout or face-to-face at wherever we can and that includes the parents as well I try to have a meeting with the parents of all my students because I want to know what their goals are and sometimes That you know There's a conflict between what they want and what the students want what I want to achieve So it's a good idea to just have them all together at some point and try to figure out What is going on? What are we doing here? Why are we doing this? That's why I think, you know being a project-based sort of advocate and in my in my sense This is why I'm doing it. This is how it works because we all come together As a teacher, I certainly might I think my yeah, sorry That's so great that you brought up this whole entire communication thing because that is so important, you know to be able to You know going back to the communication and and having that and I think that that's important because when you do online learning Sometimes we feel like you know, it's That you you can still have that kind of face-to-face and still feel like, you know You can meet everyone like you said like even if it's a hangout or and I really like because in week three or four I think this one we're talking about parent engagement and The fact that you mentioned like you look at the parents goals, too I Think it's so important. I think that's really fascinating, but continue. What were you saying? Because that is the basis and thank you for you know stepping in there because that is really important because it's not just you know You are teaching the students, but it's not just the students There is a whole background and the whole environment that comes into it and that includes us as teachers For me personally, it's definitely blogging blogging is the best thing that's ever happened to me and not just Blogging myself writing but reading other people's blogs because that's what we need We need you know the expert advice and the expert advice most of the times comes from the people who actually do the teaching That's why I've been so you know happy to be part of this of the 30 goals and of you know This we're doing today because you can get to hear what people actually do and you can Relate to it. You say that yes, this is true. This is what I do And this is what I maybe I don't do that, but I can understand it This is the whole point I think and this is what community brings out Yes, we need to step out of just you know our closed Educational sort of little bubble and circle that we have we need to step out of it because it's not you know Anything can be educational every single thing we do, you know each day We can learn something from it and that's why we need to step out when it's the part of what we think is our Environment and say oh, maybe we need to read this as well and read it and look into it We need to read other people's practice what they do like I've been reading your blog. I've been reading a tons of blogs I mean the only thing let's say if I ever made a kind of a list of myself and actually came to it is Reading blogs every day. I read at least five or six Blocks every day and I learned something from each of them and I'm very happy about it Well, I think those are great tips I'm going to move on to the last question We'll start with you again Christina and I and then Jake's going to go ahead and wrap things up because I actually have another webinar Talking about that overbooking myself, but the last question. I think it's really important Which is so all of us are very motivated now We've talked about how you know we keep up with the technology how we keep up with online learning I think the really important part too is How do you balance so and when we You end up through that journey where you end up, you know You have to think about the balance because I know like me I get overzealous and I do so many things as a mom I've looked more like okay. Yeah before it was okay that they didn't eat. I you know Did way too much can't be I didn't sleep but now as a mom I know that is so important. So I want you to all kind of you know Provide some tips or you know what it is to keep healthy Mentally physically and everything like that and then once again, I want to say thank you to all of you And I appreciate and love you all so so much and I'll let Jake go ahead and wrap up and tell you all about the week Keep on going keep on the conversation but Christina will start with you and then we'll go Sure I had I was trying to say that never ever go on without eating that is not a good Sure, whatever you do and cut down on the coffee. Okay That's an expert sort of thing. No, I think that primarily we need to What I've learned anyway throughout the year is that we need to learn to say no sometimes Because we we forget that I think we we are most of us overzealous We want to take part in things. We're enthusiastic about being part of Such a community as we are in the 30 goals, but at some time, you know, we need to stop There there is always a stop you need to stop that and how did you know that? I think for me I know it when when it feels like I need to You shouldn't let it get to the point where you can actually physically feel it If at some point you feel overwhelmed by something if you have a second thought or a doubt you should Consider maybe saying no sometimes and I think that for me has been a top advice given to me by one of my trainers and Yes, we do we can't do everything. We want to be part of things and we can find the alternatives We can do things, you know, we don't have to always participate in everything But we can participate in ways that work for us it can be one time you can write a blog or you can participate in a talk or you can give a presentation but you do not have to do every single thing all the time and We need to look after ourselves Yes, eating well is important Taking exercise is important Doing things that we love with the people we love around us are important Not not only the teachers our colleagues, but also our families the people that are with us or friends Everyone that is in our lives is important equally and that actually helps us move forward So I would like to thank you as well for making me, you know, part of this and for sharing today Thank you Christina. Um, Christina would uh, would you like to go next? Yeah, uh, actually, I think it's very important what Christina C. Just said about saying no Um, we tend to say yes a lot of times. I'm trying to escape the sun. Let me put it like this um And one of the things that I found Important to stop doing is as as you as a teacher You always tend to work Throughout the weekend I don't know if that happens to you, but I'm sure it does And probably many of you listening are relating to what I'm saying We do work a lot through weekends and there I I came to a point That I I was nearly going To the threshold between uh Let's say body Well being and burnout So I said, okay, I have to diminish and I started cutting on my weekend Uh amount of work Uh and the things I brought home from school and I think that's important Every now and then you just take a weekend for yourself and do something with your family and go like Christina said Do some exercise Take a hot bath with bubbles and relax because this is I would say that this is the best most wonderful most rewarding and most exhausting profession job in the world and To keep it going We need to take care of ourselves eat well sleep well And spa why not? Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you so much again, and uh, so theodore um Well, actually, um, I have a presentation about burnout in the coming weeks So uh eating healthily is something very important exercises are something very important and not just exercise once a week We should move every day to keep our body motivated as well and spending time with people Uh outside work because we teachers tend to to spend time only with other teachers. Yeah, uh, we need to find People who do other things to to see how their reality of the world is Um, and also spend time with ourselves meditation or not meditation just just sit and In a quiet place and just feel your breath and just relax Even for five minutes a day, this makes a difference Thank you Yes, thanks again Alisa Hey, jay. Good to see you. It's so good to see you too. Yeah Okay, my friend, um, I I echo everything everyone has said and I'm gonna add we need to unplug The fear of missing out is real not just for the millennials and my two sons are millennials It's us. It's, you know, baby boomers. It's Generation the Xers and wires, you know staying connected to this thing constantly. They've done the research It's terrible. We need to unplug and not just, you know an hour before we go to bed Which is now research-based. We must do it We need to unplug throughout the day. I remember a long time ago Um when I was on a webinar with tom withby and they were asking him Well, how do you do this and how do you do that on twitter and he said look guys 15 minutes a day. That's it 15 minutes a day and I could tell that people felt Oh, you know, we feel so much more at ease because people are thinking, you know I have to stay on here for an hour and catch everything It's one thing if you make a commitment to chat And we've all done it. I led a chat for seven years for new teachers new teacher chat It was amazing and shelly helped me to to build that chat But we we have to unplug friends. We have to um as theodora said we have to get out into the sunlight We have to step on the grass We need to Feel the sand if you're around an area where there's any kind of ocean or lake land Step in the sand. It's research-based if we don't do those things We are going to cause such harm to ourselves and then we are Mimicking that and taking that into our classrooms and we wonder why our kids would rather be on here than listening to us teach Trust me. I I go through this frequently with my pre-service teachers. So unplugging stepping outside getting sunshine stepping on grass and then Really releasing ourselves from FOMO Whatever is out there is going to be able to be captured one way or another like some of you have so marvelously shared with curation tools But stepping away and unplugging would be the number one way that I really seek balance and oftentimes I'll get emails And tweets and dms on saturday and sunday. I don't respond And I've had to tell people saturday and sunday. That's my time and especially sunday That's family day and i'm an empty deser now because my youngest moved out. So it's just me and my husband But that's my family time and me time so Take time unplug get outside and be sure to spend time with family. If not, you are truly the research says medical research That we are cutting our lives short and none of us want to do that. So it's so important Absolutely. This is such great advice. I mean, I really appreciate all of you It's just fantastic to hear and uh, you're so right Nikki Of course, I echo what everyone else said. I I finally said, you know, I had to learn how to say no Of course, I never say no to shelly. So She's the one person it doesn't matter what's happening. I'll say yes to but also, um, use tools that are going to help you One that I use all the time is buffer because I can schedule tweets and instagram posts and facebook posts to go out on a certain day at a certain time And so I'll sit down and I will compose all of those for the entire week Things that are going to go home to my parents things that I want out to students things that I want out to my pln And I go ahead and use buffer to Set all those up to go out at certain days in a certain time So it might look like gosh, you're always on social media Not really I sat down at one time and wrote everyone that was going to be done and out of the pictures and and go And then um, what I do with my kids is I use them too Um, so instead of me having to be on social media tweeting out all day long or doing snapchat all day long of what we're doing Because one thing I like to use social media for is to celebrate all the awesome things that are happening in our library and our school But also teaching digital citizenship within the environment of snapchat or facebook or twitter or instagram Is I give my library helpers we I have centers and so my library helper kids Whoever's in that center at that time. I give them my phone It's open to the school snapchat and I say go around take pictures and write snaps about the awesome things that We're learning and doing in the library Show it to me before you post it and then I let them post it and that way they're learning in that in the real environment Not in a simulation or You know a video and a game that's talking about social media, but in the real environment How do you use social media properly? And so again, it's not me doing all the work I'm putting that off onto the kids and also teaching at the same time. So how can we um do this? Um in more effective ways than us always being connected and doing it ourselves Absolutely I think that authenticity is like is a really key thing is important because they really see the value in it Rather than when it's just something that's in a closed space that having things be public and really affect Other people is just a great thing Um, did I miss anybody? I'm on a mobile and uh, we went to the park So that savvy wouldn't savvy was actually sleepy So she was just rowdy and making a lot of noise And as soon as we got to the park and went into the swing for about five minutes She was out cold and she was asleep But she's sitting beside me here asleep. Um, shelly, of course is texting me reminding me things that I need to Pass on to everybody, but more than anything First of all, I just want to say thank you so much to all of you for being here Um, it was emotional for me just to listen. I mean it always is listening to you speak, but it's just uh So powerful to hear you share your messages and it's such an inspiration to I mean, I know to me, but to so many teachers and uh, it's just so valuable for me to get to hear it and About your journeys and about, you know, other than the amazing things that you do But just how, you know, how difficult it can be to get started sometimes. So Or just for anybody really it's it's a difficult thing and it's uh Intimidating like how many of you said so? Um, it's it's an honor to be in your presence, you know, I'm I'm just me But um, it's it's great to get to be here with you and get to participate and learn with you So, uh, thank you all from all over the world for, you know, taking time out of your day Early in the morning late in the afternoon everywhere. Um, I do want to say just thank you again to everybody Um, the the MOOC is still open. We're still welcome to, you know, please please join I didn't get to take a look to see if Fabiana had any questions from facebook But we'll if anybody has has those open if you see any questions that you know, please pass those on We'll uh make sure we get those answered There and you know if we could here Um, but and so please join if you haven't if you're watching if you're just seeing this for the first time saying what is this really about then Please, uh, you know take the the couple minutes to join the MOOC. It's six weeks. We're really excited. It's it's a A lot of wonderful people these rock stars here joined us in the next week. We've got dr. Will day import I am dr. Will on twitter and uh, noa geisel senior g We'll be talking about a student motivation and um, we'll be talking about badging micro credentialing Noa geisel's district has done amazing things with that and he's continuing to do great things outside of his district We will not have a live hangout next week. We'll be just participating through a twitter chat. The hashtag will be edgy goals MOOC and um, you can follow that along now too A lot of people are tweeting I've been trying to share some of that and keep up But again, it's just the messages have been so powerful and everything you've had So I had to say that I can't really keep up. I've just been kind of law. I was tearing up um several times so Next week the third week after that we've got larry furlazo from california sacramino, I believe and um Oh geez and steve wheeler from the uk from we'll be talking with us about a lot about parent Parent involvement parent engagement things like that and they're both just wonderful at that so Um, I cover everything that's coming up. There's so much coming up and um, there's always again We'll always be it'll be recordings of this uh, so come back and watch we'll follow along on the hashtag It's it's a lot to keep up with there are so many people but we're welcoming to so many more so um I'm sure that I missed things that I should have said but Uh, I can't thank you so much. I can't thank you enough for for joining us And it's just really truly an honor to get to to be here with you And uh to learn from you and to continue to you know to make those connections with uh the new folks to twitter and Thank you so much again for all that you do and for sharing And I think that we can wrap it up. So uh, thanks again, and I hope you have a wonderful day evening And we'll see you in the mood Bye