Articles of Interest 1/8/2017

Here are the articles today that brought some value to my thoughts:
Creativity:

• Creation is a process and it gets better with time and iteration. The most creative among us have mastered their crafts. They have developed their skills over a long period of time to be better and remarkable at what they do.
• The best gift you can share with your audience, no matter how small is your authentic self. Your imperfection is the source of your character and creative powers. It’s who you are, the best parts, not perfect, not trying — just yourself. And you should be proud and bold enough to express yourself without fear of failure or being criticised.

Your Self-Consciousness Is Killing Your Creativity - The Mission

Professional Development:

• Start by involving teachers in the design.
• What teachers want:
  • “Give me more time to explore my interest.”
    “I like having a choice of what I get to do.”
    “I like when it’s challenging, but not to the point where I would want to give up.”
    “I like staying at my own pace and being able to go ahead, or stay a little behind.”
    
• Working collaboratively with teachers in planning and designing this PD workshop allowed us to leverage the collective wisdom of all our teachers. 
  

​Personalizing Professional Development For Teachers, By Teachers (EdSurge News)

​Technology 

4 Ways Office Technology Is Going to Change in 2017 - Man + Machine

• ​Using modern messaging apps, a unified interface to work becomes possible, where conversations and applications come together in one place. Group messaging replaces email for projects, initiatives and team collaboration. Workflow and actions take place within the conversation, using intelligent bots. - Reminds me of MSTeams