For the last two years Chris Rowell and Steve Dawes have developed and shared their online CPD course promoting apps in Higher Education called the ’12 Apps of Christmas’.
Over the twelve days of the programme, starting from December 1st, Chris and team publishes a daily post with the day’s task by 10am, giving participants the opportunity to work through it whenever there is ten minutes or so spare in the day. Each post contains instructions on a different app, together with tailored suggestions of how to use it with your students and how it might work effectively for you in a professional context.
In general each task shouldn't take much more than ten minutes a day so a nice bite sized CPD opportunity. Participants are advised: "Don’t worry if you get a bit left behind – you can always catch up!"
For those using Twitter there was a course hashtag #RUL12AoC and this provided an opportunity to connect up with others on the course. After the live programme, the materials are made available on the course site to refer back to later, or to catch up on in your own time if you dropped behind.
What makes this course different is that Chris and Steve have reached out to the community to contribute as facilitators and lead on one chosen app. I was delighted to be asked by Chris to facilitate on day 9 with the app Periscope.
I've written a couple of blog posts on using Periscope in educational contexts:
What made this day for me seeing the app used via a live Periscoped discussion with Laurie Phipps and James Clay. They talked about Mobile Apps and the work they've been doing on Digital Capability.
You can access the course here:
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