We've heeded the wise writing of "Ditch your Textbook's" Matt Miller, and hope to help you make your next PD not stink. We've all been there. You're partially through a session or keynote and are trying to decide if it's worth your time to sit through the rest. This episode will share some tips to make you a better presenter and help keep your colleagues engaged so they won't decide they have better things to do than listen to you.

 

Useful Links:

http://ditchthattextbook.com/2019/09/25/27-tips-to-deliver-powerful-professional-development/

Jennifer Gonzalez covered this topic in the Cult of Pedagogy podcast as well…

Gamestorming: https://gamestorming.com/

METS at miGoogle 

 

The Un-redacted Transcript 

Danelle Brostrom  0:00  

That's not what is says on your business card

 

Larry Burden  0:11  

It is not an inspiring car.

 

Danelle Brostrom  0:13  

It gets great gas mileage,

 

Larry Burden  0:15  

striving for mediocrity.

 

Larry Burden  0:18  

Drives like a peach, hon.

 

Larry Burden  0:23  

It's episode 90 of the EdTechLoop podcast, My name is Larry Burden, and she's decided to ditch my suggested pod topic, it's Danelle Brostrom. You can't find true wisdom from a textbook, but you can find it in this week's moment of Zen. 

 

Moment of Zen  0:39  

When you see a good person, Think of becoming like her or him. When you see someone not so good. Reflect on your own weak points. 

 

Larry Burden  0:49  

In an effort to develop a more professional palette, we've consulted the experts on how to better prepare, This, this week's meat of the show, making PD better professional development better. We've all been there. We have been into that session, and that keynote. Depends on your level of politeness. Do you sit through the whole session? Or do you get up and... 

 

Danelle Brostrom  1:12  

I sit through the session. 

 

Larry Burden  1:14  

I respect, see now I can go in and I'll have like a camera or something trying to get some shots are record it. And I have to go to the next session because I you know, I have to try to get a swath of information out of this, so.

 

Danelle Brostrom  1:28  

Yeah, but sometimes you can't choose. Sometimes you're stuck in that bad PD because that's the PD you have to take. And then you're stuck.

 

Larry Burden  1:35  

There is that yeah, 

 

Danelle Brostrom  1:36  

yeah,

 

Larry Burden  1:36  

The initial pod topic that I was going to talk about,

 

Danelle Brostrom  1:39  

that I ditched,

 

Larry Burden  1:41  

Which I thought was going to be a winner, because we're going to talk about your favorite subject, Liz Kolb. She had a keynote this year at WiredTC. And I was actually going to talk about her keynote and the fact that she did not...she wasted no time. She basically came up there. And it was it was a different, a different vibe than most keynotes that I've been to because she was basically like, I'm a professional, you're a professional, you're here to get some information from me, I am giving you that information. Let's do this. Let's act like professionals. And I was looking through some of the resources that you had brought up. And I'm like, Yeah, like that.

 

Danelle Brostrom  2:22  

Yeah, yeah, she was amazing. And, you know, the reason I ditched your topic, Larry, Matt Miller had a great post the other day on Twitter. And he's the writer of, "Ditch that Textbook." And he talked a lot about PD, and how sometimes it can be awful. And we've all sat through it. So he gave a ton of ideas on ways to make PD better, and then throw it out to the group. And it just kind of got me thinking that we do need to talk about this since the beginning of the year, and we're all a little rusty. So it's a good time to bring this back. And I'm guilty of this too, you know, you I've gone in and I've had so much information to present and very little time to do it. So I went wide instead of deep with a few topics. And I just, I bored them to death as I read from the slideshow, because I, I got nervo