Last week I wrote a reflective blog post about starting out on the CMALT journey, What do you do?, and was delighted to get lots of really helpful practical input from the ALT community on twitter. I’ve captured the advice and discussions in a Storify here Starting CMALT – Advice from the community so I can look back on them and in case they’re of use to others. Here’s some of the highlights.
Matt Cornock had useful advice on completing Section 3 if you’re not in a teaching role.
@LornaMCampbell @A_L_T Some advice re section 3 of #cmalt – https://t.co/BFJWhNEXYX – In section 2 don't worry about not teaching, colleagues are your learners too
— Matt Cornock (@mattcornock) April 19, 2017
Phil Barker kicked off an interesting discussion about how long it takes to complete a portfolio.
@LornaMCampbell @sheilmcn @suebecks @A_L_T @MarenDeepwell What's the approx timescale for getting a #cmalt application together?–ignoring procrastination but fitting it in around the day job
— Phil Barker (@philbarker) April 21, 2017
@LornaMCampbell @philbarker @sheilmcn @suebecks @A_L_T It took 6 years of procrastination & collecting evidence… oh, and I started over 3 times. But the writing was fairly quick… 😉
— Maren Deepwell (@MarenDeepwell) April 21, 2017
Working together with a colleague seems to be a good way to make progress
@LornaMCampbell @philbarker @A_L_T you two should deffo do that – organise writing sprints – @linaelfa was mine and really helped by forcing me block out time to write.
— Sheila MacNeill (@sheilmcn) April 21, 2017
Kate Mitchell was particularly interested in the tensions of our role:
This is a great post not only in thinking about #CMALT but also on the tensions of being in #TELedvisor roles #edtech ping @sueinasp https://t.co/VD9SEqhFoa
— Kate Mitchell (@katevideo) April 19, 2017
While Martin Hawksey may have blow my cover 😉
“What do you do?” – Starting out on #CMALT https://t.co/1gRu7SI2xH < I can neither confirm or deny @LornaMCampbell is a spy 😉 #altc
— Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) April 21, 2017
