How can I, as an educator with something to share, find my audience and inspire change in their behaviors?
I have learned that a catchy, inspiring, or aha type of title does a lot to get me to read further. A simple message through a logo helps but is not essential (I found I paused and thought about Gottfried's logo, while I did not notice, until I looked, Vale's and Dearborn's logos). First impressions make a difference to your audience. I hope my title and logo capture my audience so that they want to read further. My audience will be fellow teachers. First, I thought my audience would be my peers in St Helena, but after this program and reading Gottfried's capstone, I see that I need to think bigger. Posting on social media will spread ideas far and wide. To be all that I want my capstone to be, I need to always remember my teachers. I need to support my audience with enough information, presented in an easy to use format so that they stay a while, or not, and leave with something that they can try within a few days! I do not want my program to be something that other teachers look at and say that it is nice, interesting, or wow. If this happens, my audience are just spectators. I want to create something that can be implemented in the classroom. If it gets re-tweeted, pinned, or posted through social media, I want people who follow these links to be inspired to act, to change their classroom dynamics, and to help their students think more by asking quality questions. If I can inspire my audience, then we can cultivate curiosity in the classroom. T
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Becky
6/18/2017 10:09:51 am
Wow! Todd were you just stating that you are going to #tweet about your capstone?!? What?
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6/19/2017 02:27:15 am
You know until I read your post I hadn't really thought about moving my audience to action like you stated. I liked that a lot with your post. Very well said. I can see you now at the next edcon. Now we will hear from our next speaker the one the only Mr. Todd Mills!!! The crowd of 12 year olds goes nuts!!! And I will be there tweeting everything you are saying about how you helped your students learn to ask the right questions. I like it Todd! I will have to see how I can move my audience to action. I am going to say this on here bc I think you could give me constructive feedback. Do you think they would allow us or me to use hardly any words and use mostly pictures to have as a project? I am thinking minimalist here. Like a few words to give basic instructions but nothing really going into detail about stuff just simply icons and infographics or pictorials. I don't know what do you think. I have been toying around with the idea but I'm not sure if it could be done.... Let me know your thoughts about that.
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