Teaching teachers is always super intimidating. Everyone has their own style and I know it can be tempting to think about what different actions one might have done instead, because it’s in our nature! While I’m used to collaborating and creating lessons with other teachers, this was the first time I had ever team taught with someone else at the same time! It was definitely a unique, informative and valuable experience.
While we both have the same goal in mind of teaching our peers about the article “The Politics of Print”(Weller, 2017), our approaches are different. It’s great to look at the same source of information from someone else’s viewpoint and discuss how they would approach the situation. It was a great reminder of team work and collaboration that we ask our students to do every day. It was also humbling and a great reminder that compromise is necessary in any good team. Not only did our original plan change when we worked together, but after receiving constructive feedback it made us refocus on what outcome we wanted our peers to learn. It was a reminder that ideas, presentations and life can constantly be improved and adjusted!
To Nearpod or not Nearpod is the question. To be very transparent, I love Nearpod. The biggest reason I thought Nearpod was a great fit for our team teach was because it allows the creator to add a lot of different media platforms in one handy presentation tool. Nearpod also allows students to follow along with the presentation on their own screen. In this team teach context it allowed for our participants to do open ended responses, whole class collaboration (similar to Padlet), have a copy of the slides we created and enjoy video. Phew!
Just like when we are teaching our own students in the classroom, our original plan changed! We decided to go from using the collaboration tool to having an open discussion. I think this was a necessary decision because it allowed our peers to directly talk to each other. In the environment we were in our participants discuss naturally and respectfully so why not embrace it! It also felt super awkward after the collaboration tool without having any sort of discussion and this way all voices were able to be heard as well. If we had a bigger group than collaboration tool may definitely have been the way to go.
Our first question being answered with the collaboration feature 
Our second post just being used as a prompt for class discussion
It was interesting to learn and teach about the idea of digital print, something most people encounter everyday, and look at it through a more critical lens. It allowed us to see all of the ways we are receiving information and interpreting it in ways we may not have even realize.
References:
Weller, J. (2017, November 12). The politics of print and why we need it. Huffington Post. Retrieved from https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-politics-of-print-why-we-need-it_us_5a0904fee4b0ee8ec36942eb
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