I joined the online conference for Global Education at 9:00am on 11/16/2017. This was the keynote presentation titled "Learning without limits." The speaker was Jennifer Williams and the other moderator was Steve Hargadon. This conference talked a lot about professional development. Everyone decided that ideal professional development is empowering, engaging, energizing, personalized, self-selected, bite-sized, and transformative. I learned that quality professional development should be sustained, intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data-driven, and classroom-focused. I knew that there were different types of professional development, but this conference taught me about specific ones that I had not heard of before and some that I had. The informal types discussed were twitter chats, edcamps, blogging, mentoring, courses, and OERs. The formal types discussed were district PD, conferences, and advanced degrees. I liked how Jennifer talked about the importance of both types. I am excited to attend many professional developments in my career. Gaining new knowledge is something very important to me as a future teacher. The conference also talked about Participate. I was not super familiar with this, but after this conference I am much more familiar. I learned that it is a resource with manny possibilities of use such as chats, collaborations, courses, portals, etc.
