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The first live chat that I was able to find was #pblchat all about project based learning and the topic was called The Power of Critical Friends. To be honest, I had no idea what to expect going in to this chat. It started out with the moderator asking who was here and I retweeted it.

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This was the first question that the moderator asked

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I wasn't really sure what a critical friend was. After reading some responses, this is what I learned. This is also the 2nd question and my response. At this point I did not know that you could retweet something and add on to it.

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Many of the people in the chat considered their colleages, administrators and students part of their critical friend group.

Then we talked about ways we can get feedback from those people in our CF group. I liked this tweet because it shows that there are so many ways we can give/receive feedback. I have implemented forms and shared docs with my students in the past.

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By the fourth question I figured out how to retweet and add in a comment vs just replying

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In some ways, this chat connects with the work that we will be doing in this class in the upcoming weeks with our professional inquiry projects. We are all part of each other’s critical friend group and will be communicating with our group members through a platform of our choosing to work through our last two projects of the semester.

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These moderators had a fun ice breaker and asked us if we liked coffee or tea better and then asked us how often we use small groups in our classroom

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These moderators were more interactive than the first chat that I participated in and responded to my answer to the first question.

The second question was all about small group organization. Most people said that for reading they use some sort of diagnostic assessment and then group students by level

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after that we talked about different resources to use with small groups.

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different suggestions for small group activities

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One teacher has her students complete a checklist for their independent work for the week while she is pulling small groups. I thought this was a great suggestion!

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Here was another interaction that I had with the moderator and my response to how I hold students accountable for small group work

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q&a portion at the end