Growing like Topsy.Describing grass roots growth.

Teresa MacKinnon

Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick.

"Tell me where were you born, and who your father and

mother were."

"Never was born," re-iterated the creature more

empahatically. "Never had no father, nor mother nor

nothin'"

"...Have you ever heard anything about God, Topsy?" The

child looked bewildered, but grinned as usual.

"Do you know who made you?"

"Nobody, as I knows on," said the child, with a short laugh.

The idea appeared to amuse her considerably; for her eyes

twinkled, and she added, "I spect I grow'd. Don't think

nobody never made me."

Described as a case study in Intent report#clavier

The interviewees:

Simon Ensor

@sensor63

Clermont Ferrand,

France

Marcin Kleban

@makle1

Krakow, Poland

Chris Allen

Linnaeus, Sweden.

#clavier awareness personal connection, achieved through physical or virtual meeting. Simon

informal/social media – unexpected outcomes nature of informal/social media –pace, taking on a life of its ownvirtual becoming real. Marcin.

negatives/positives resounding +ve, stimulating experience but awareness of the disruption. Relative advantage. Marcin.

contribution to teacher development recognition of existing context, reward for engagement in useful activity such as reflection on intercultural collaboration.Simon.

threats, opportunities, risks in own context needs support and valorisation through assessment processes and time allocation, career recognition. Chris.

Themes:

taxedo reveals how #oie supports useful CPD.

Connect and collaborate.

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Thank you for listening.