What's in Your Stack?
I don't know about you, but as days tick in May I find myself thinking about summer reading. I just can't help it. I've started planning the fiction I hope to read, the middle grade books I need to add to my stack, and - of course - the professional reading I hope to do. What can I say? So many books....so little time.
#cyberPD
Building my summer professional bookstack means it is time to think about #cyberPD. This will be our 9th year talking together about a professional book across digital spaces. I read several professional books across a year, but the #cyberPD title always seems to stick with me and find its way into the work I do.
What's #cyberPD? Each summer the #cyberPD community chooses a professional book to read and discuss in the month of July. The event has certainly grown since its first year which began with less than fifteen people, but the community has remained collaborative.
Here are the books selected since 2011:
Building my summer professional bookstack means it is time to think about #cyberPD. This will be our 9th year talking together about a professional book across digital spaces. I read several professional books across a year, but the #cyberPD title always seems to stick with me and find its way into the work I do.
What's #cyberPD? Each summer the #cyberPD community chooses a professional book to read and discuss in the month of July. The event has certainly grown since its first year which began with less than fifteen people, but the community has remained collaborative.
Here are the books selected since 2011:
- 2011 Conferring: The Cornerstone of Reader's Workshop by Patrick Allen
- 2012 Opening Minds by Peter Johnston
- 2013 Who Owns the Learning by Alan November
- 2014 Reading in the Wild by Donalyn Miller
- 2015 Digital Reading: What's Essential by Franki Sibberson and Bill Bass
- 2016 Do It Yourself Literacy by Kate Roberts and Maggie Roberts
- 2017 Dynamic Teaching for Deeper Reading by Vicki Vinton
- 2018 Being the Change by Sara K. Ahmed
- 2019 ????
Our Group Has Moved
If you are new to #cyberPD, I should give you a bit of quick history. While our group has always maintained a strong Twitter presence through the hashtag #cyberPD, we have typically connected our posts in a hub-like space. In the beginning years, after completing the reading, we linked to host blogs. It wasn't long until we started using "Jog the Web" to create a collection of all posts. Well, Jog the Web closed its site so our group moved to Google Communities. Yep, you know where this is going. In the early spring of this year, Google Communities closed. Michelle and I wrestled with this as we think the collaborative conversation and flow of thoughts is such a key piece of #cyberPD. Michelle suggested MeWe as a platform to allow us to keep the conversation going. We are going to give it a try. I mean, after all, the whole point of #cyberPD is to dive into new learning!
Take minute to stop by this year's MeWe group page to join the conversation: https://mewe.com/join/cyberpd.
Share Your Stack
To get started, we first need to select our book for the 2019 July virtual book talk. To help to do this, we are asking the #cyberPD community to share their book stacks. By May 25th, please share the professional books you hope to read this summer. Participants can share their stacks using the Twitter hashtag #cyberPD and/or post on our group's new MeWe page. We'll select the title from these stacks. It seems there are always about three that show up across stacks.
The #cyberPD selection announcement will be made June 1st! We want everyone to have time to get their books and mark their calendars. We're looking forward to this amplified learning opportunity with all of you. Join us.
Share your stack....and join the fun.
Wahoo, posted to MeWe (new to me platform). Soooo excited! Thanks for doing this again!
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