I wasn’t looking for dozens of people to help. However, my success with the group of 4 people boosted my confidence in using Tutela. Another week passed and 2 more members joined the discussion.Īt first, I was a bit self conscious before posting online on Tutela about the course. And within 24 hours, I received replies from 2 Tutela members - 1 in Niagara Falls and 1 in Nova Scotia. And that’s why I shared some information about our Summer course - to tell as many teachers as possible about this exciting learning design challenge and to ask for help in reviewing and contributing resources, because I really believe in peer learning and collaboration.Įven just asking questions was helpful as it made me think deeper about what we were doing. And just thinking about it gives me goosebumps. On Tutela, I can ask a question and hear from a friendly colleague in, say, the Yukon. Thanks to Tutela, it has worked out very well, and we will be continuing to use our group’s live conferencing to facilitate our monthly PBLA meetings starting again in September.įor me, Tutela is an online learning garden where I can meet colleagues from across Canada. I have to say, if it wasn’t for our Tutela group, I’m not sure how we would have been able to facilitate our organization’s PBLA training. We often used the discussion forum to post comments on some of the questions in my lead teacher lesson plans. If someone missed a meeting then they could just watch the recording. I was able to put all the materials up on the screen and use the whiteboard to make things more interactive and interesting, and I could put up all the other instructors work so that we could discuss our assignments. So as a PBLA Lead Teacher and Tutela member, I decided that starting a private group would be the most logical solution since it would enable us to share files and use the live conferencing for all our sessions. Since the LINC instructors in our group teach in small, rural communities across the entire Columbia Basin in southeastern B.C., once PBLA was implemented in our region we really needed to find a way for our instructors to be able to connect online since face-to-face training sessions were simply not possible.
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