The best ideas were always first shared as bad ideas.
Colleagues, if you are reading this on April 12, 2017, welcome to the final meet up for the year of the Barrie CEFR team. Enjoy the learning today! I am the bearded man off to the side of the room managing blog and twitter updates for this session. If I do not get the chance to speak much, I would like to take this opportunity to plug our blog.
When blogs started off, they were places where individuals could post, discuss and often argue about big ideas. As blogs took off as fora for new and interesting ideas, they proliferated on the internet, and eventually evolved into many different shapes and sizes. The line blurred between what differentiates a website and a blog.
The #CEFRBarrie blog is, in spirit, a classic blog. Of course, we can, and should, use it as a platform to share our resources and ideas with colleagues as we learn about the CEFR, but I think it is even better for the sharing of BIG ideas and to track our learning and mindsets in the BarrieCEFR group! It is a place where we can post our thoughts, whether philosophical musings about L2 pedagogy or blunt opinions on curriculum. As with any forum, the idea is that we can get feedback from other professionals to refine our own thinking beyond our face to face meetings.
Going forward, fellow #BarrieCEFR teacher/learners, use this blog to share your thoughts and ideas, and don't be concerned about your idea being incomplete or "not ready yet". Our principal goal should be to collaborate and make our thinking, and our students' learning better by consequence of our participation in this conversation.
Bonne journée!
P.S. use this hashtag to share your learning today on twitter! #cefrbarrie
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