Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Our Very Own Learning Community
A few of us started our own informal professional development initiative and today was our first Lunch ‘n’ Learn meeting. It started so easily – I offered to show folks how to create a narrated slide show using Photo Story and someone else suggested we make these little demos a regular event. We quickly agreed to do these on days we have Faculty Assembly – about once a month.
Today, there were six of us – one more than we could comfortably fit around the table if we leave room for a laptop to do the demo. (Will we need to find a bigger space? How exciting will that be?) My demo had serious flaws (ugh, sound problems!) but it didn’t matter. Our conversation focused on how and why we might use tools like this in our own teaching and how we might introduce this to our Master’s students for their own teaching.
I said this Lunch ‘n’ Learn started easily, but will it flourish? I hope so. Today, one of my colleagues asked if anyone had something they wanted to learn the next time and I hope asking that question at the end of each session will help us keep up the momentum. By the way, I waited just barely long enough for everyone else to shrug their shoulders before chiming in with something I’d like to learn to do. That’s on tap for our next Lunch ‘n’ Learn and I’m excited!
This photo from Flickr’s CreativeCommons pool by Swansea Photographer
