Links I mentioned:

• The Wellbeing-Driven Productivity Podcast
• Notes by Martine
• Martine's Website
• Martine on Twitter

Hello, it's Martine here, I am recording this towards the end of June 2021 and I wanted to give you an idea of what's on the horizon for The Teaching Space - in particular, the podcast.

Next year is the third and final year of my masters in education - my dissertation year. I know this is going to take up a lot of my energy and focus, but I am determined to reach the end.

The reality of this is, of course, I need to refocus my priorities a bit.

Podcasting is so much fun - I love doing it and I think I will always be a podcaster, but the reality is that it is incredibly time-consuming. Next year, I am going to take a break from my two weekly podcasting schedule and do something a bit different.

I am going to focus on two things for The Teaching Space.

• Writing

• Informal audio

You might have noticed if you follow me on Twitter, that I have been working on my writing by doing the Ship 30 for 30 challenge. I plan to keep up the frequent production of short-form essays and will be publishing them in a variety of places including Twitter, Medium and my email newsletter.

I'm going to experiment with informal audio over the summer - I am exploring Anchor and Racket to see what is the lowest friction.

While it sounds like you might hear a bit less from me, in actual fact, I think you will see and hear more!

So, here's what I'd like you to do if you want to keep up with what I am doing.

• Follow me on Twitter: MartineGuernsey.

• Subscribe to my email newsletter, The Teaching Space Extra.

• Stay subscribed to the podcast in your favourite podcast app.

• Join the community.

I'm planning a break over the summer, although I will still be writing on Twitter.

Feel free to reach out by email if you have questions: hello@theteachingspace.com.

Speak soon.

Martine

• Notion has enabled me to conduct a yearly and monthly review consistently for the first time ever. I am also refining my weekly review process. This is the first time I have managed this behaviour consistently, and it is game changing. This is a personal review - but could easily apply to work and there is always some cross over. Undertaking personal reviews is enabling me to meet my goals. (01:13).
• On the subject of goals, that’s where it all starts, so I am going to walk you through my process.
• Annual review (03:09)
  • Review the year (screenshot).
  • Consider your life buckets (e.g. health, work, business, personal life, travel, money etc) and use the plus, minus, next method to reflect.
  • Identify your proudest achievement/s and biggest challenges.
  • Set goals for next year and keep them visible (screenshot).
  • You might like to set a theme or word for the year - mine is ONE.
• Monthly review (07:50)
  • Now page - currently in Notion and template available.
  • Now page template includes goals.
  • Review: progress on my goals, achievements, what next, theme for the year update and currently reading.
  • Share!
  • Diary note for next month.
• Weekly review (09:45)
  • Empty my quick capture inboxes (refer to episode 121).
  • Inbox Zero.
  • Plan for next week - calendar, tasks, exercise etc.
  • Clear down tasks.
  • Also an opportunity to plan meals.
  • Don’t refer back to goals but perhaps I should.
• Everything comes together in my Notion dashboard which works as well as it does thanks to Notion Mastery. Template available (11:13).
• Wrap up (12:33)
  • What do you do?
  • Discuss in the community.

• Plus, Minus, Next.
• Now page Notion template.
• Episode 121 Personal Knowledge Management for Teachers and Trainers.
• Notion Mastery course.
• Notion dashboard video.
• The Teaching Space Community.

• What is personal knowledge management? (00:47).
• “Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the practice of capturing the ideas and insights we encounter in our daily life, whether from personal experience, from books and articles, or from our work, and cultivating them over time to produce more creative, higher quality work” (Forte Labs, 2019).
• Ness Labs creator, Anne-Laure Le Cunff describes the 5 C’s of PKM as: creation, circulation, curation, collaboration and communities (Ness Labs, 2020).
• My interpretations of the 5 C’s (02:08):
  • creation: managing knowledge derived from learning allows the creation of new knowledge.
  • circulation: that new knowledge can be circulated/shared.
  • curation: it’s also a way to collect and curate things that make you think.
  • collaboration: collecting information in this way can lead to collaboration.
  • communities: you can share anything collected or created in communities (e.g. Twitter).
• For me, PKM is about ensuring the content I consume is not wasted. How many times to you read or watch something and then forget it straight afterwards? (03:56).
• While I don’t expect to learn from everything I consume (ahem.. dog videos on TikTok), if I am consuming to learn and/or generate my own content afterwards, I want to increase my chance of retention. Furthermore, from an ethical standpoint, if someone’s work influences my thinking, I want to give credit.
• The best way to design a system for PKM is to draw it (I used Excalidraw) (05:28).
• Work out (07:18):
  • Input: where do you consume content? (Examples: YouTube, web, academic papers, reports, Kindle, Twitter etc). Also include ideas.
  • Output: what do you want to achieve? (Examples: share notes, write blog posts/articles, write a dissertation, write a book, create a podcast etc).
• I then divide my workflow into three levels (09:21):
  • Quick capture (temporary repository)
  • Literature notes (notes taken while consuming content)
  • Permanent notes (notes in my own words - usually atomic)
• See diagram on show notes - loosely based on Zettelkasten.
• Tech stack (11:39):
  • Quick capture: Drafts, Highlights and Readwise (clear weekly)
  • Literature notes: Notion (knowledge hub), Highlights and Readwise
  • Permanent notes: Obsidian (public)
• Obsidian is my digital garden (15:20).
• A Digital Garden is personal, but public learning space for live, interconnected notes.
• Or, more eloquently, “A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public” (Le Cunff, 2020).
• Obsidian allows you to see connections between notes. Things planted in my digital garden might eventually become articles, podcasts etc (16:49).
• Wrap up: let’s discuss in the community! (17:12)

• Martine’s Digital Garden
• Excalidraw for diagrams.
• Shower notepad.
• Notion
• Obsidian
• Readwise
• Drafts
• Highlights
• Zettelkasten method.
• Martine’s Twitter thread on this topic.
• Notion Mastery course.
• The Teaching Space Community.

• Introducing Elizabeth Hutchinson (01:03).
• Elizabeth shares some recent PD that had a big impact on her (03:00).
• Organising PD is great PD (05:58).
• Elizabeth talks about her own approach to PD previously and now (08:46).
• The Twitter chat that started everything… Library Staff Love Learning (11:00).
• Martine talks about how the podcast helps her PD (19:04).
• The changing landscape of PD - creating your own opportunities (20:28).
• On Clubhouse (21:03).
• The challenges of leading your own PD - find your focus, find the time (22:50).
• The benefits of finding your own PD - finding your purpose, opening doors and finding your clan (28:42).
• On career paths…. (34:30).
• Workload and PD - bite-sized PD (36:25).
• Logging your PD (46:46).
• Final thoughts (51:43).
• Find Elizabeth online (52:29).

Thanks to Elizabeth for returning to the show and being an awesome guest.

• Elizabeth’s website
• Elizabeth on Twitter
• Episode 13 Why it’s Time to Get to Know Your School Librarian, An Interview With Elizabeth Hutchinson
• CILIP
• Martine’s interview with Professor Matt O’Leary
• Clubhouse
• Library Staff Love Learning
• Create Positive Habits That Stick (podcast)

Thanks to Daniela, who is a member of The Teaching Space Community, for suggesting this episode topic.

You can join the community at community.theteachingspace.com.

This topic has been influenced by my own experience as well a number of articles I read on the topic. I will link to the articles in the show notes which you will find at theteachingspace.com/118.

This episode will focus on teachers using Twitter for their own purposes rather than using it with students.

• Educators on Twitter who generally use EduTwitter as a hashtag.

• It's a great way to connect with people from all over the world working in similar, or entirely different areas of education to you.
• Building your network in this way can lead to job offers! (Remember AJ from episode 114?)
• You can engage in interesting, topical discussions, get help, advice and help.
• You can stay current by knowing what is being discussed in education right now.
• It's an easy way to find links to interesting articles, podcasts, research, events etc.
• Event hashtags are fab.
• It's free PD (although often we forget to log it).
• It's a great way to try publishing content e.g. tweetstorms.

• Twitter is a 'social' media platform - invariably you will end up using it for work purposes during social time. This is a boundary that needs consideration.
• If you are tweeting professionally, you need to consider your employer's viewpoint.
• On self-promotion.
• Discussions can turn nasty... not often, but they can.

• It's all about boundaries. Think about how and when you will engage in Twitter conversation. Who will you be? Is yours a teaching only feed or a mix?
• Think twice before participating in certain discussions e.g. isolation booths, 'prog' v 'trad' teachers, certain behaviour topics etc.
• If you are going to participate and disagree, try to 'attack' arguments rather than the people making them (see Greg Ashman's article).
• Carefully curate your feed, consider your 'bubble' - don't just follow your sector or people who look at sound like you.
• Find hashtags of interest and check those and also use them.
• Participate in Twitter chats.
• Remember people often only show their 'best bits'.
• If you need a break, remove the app from your phone.
• Don't be afraid to unfollow people.
• Mute words.
• Be human.

Treat Twitter as a community but ensure your boundaries are in place. And give me a follow if you're there or joining: MartineGuernsey.

• AJ's story (podcast episode 114)
• A Beginner's Guide to EduTwitter
• The Magic That is EduTwitter and Online CPD
• The Golden Rule of EduTwitter
• How to mute words on Twitter
• Twitter 101: How to Start Your Own Teacher Twitter Account
• Martine on Twitter

• Introducing Parm (00:40).
• Why Parm thinks teacher wellbeing is at an all-time low (02:22).
• Martine on boundaries (04:00).
• Switching to online teaching (05:30).
• Teachers as perfectionists (06:15).
• The unseen pressure on women due to Covid (07:10).
• Living alone on an island and working in education (08:40).
• The stress epidemic (09:30).
• Unique challenges in teaching (10:30).
• Guernsey and Ofsted (14:55).
• The pressure of always being "on" (16:20).
• Dropping standards just a tiny bit (17:10).
• Parm on presenteeism (19:20).
• Trust, professionalism and the need for a culture of flexibility (24:00).
• How leadership is changing (25:40).
• The need for flexibility in leadership (28:01).
• Could the pandemic help flexible working become more accepted? (28:45).
• Zoom fatigue... a few tips (29:57).
• Asynchronous versus synchronous learning online (31:27).
• Ways to prioritise and increase our wellbeing (33:00).
• Being able to talk about your mental health is a strength (36:45).
• Be mindful of the impact of Covid when you deal with colleagues (43:30).
• About WomenEd (44:38).

Thanks to Parm for being such an interesting and generous guest.

• WomenEd
• Victoria College, Jersey
• Parm on Twitter
• WomenEd on Twitter
• Podcast: You Need to Stop Being a Perfectionist Teacher Right Now
• Podcast: Could it be That You Need to Drop Your Standards?
• High Challenge, Low Threat by Mary Myatt
• Leading ethically (ASCL)
• Podcast: Teachers and Mental Health - Interview with Chris Chamberlain
• Podcast: Managing Worry for Teachers and Trainers