My failed #GTANY application. (Or, the importance of being a little more public.)

Last week, I spent a little too much time on my family vacation worrying about and procastinating finishing the video portion of my Google Teacher Academy #GTANY application. I finished the video on the last day applications were being accepted and clicked the submit button.

Yesterday, as I realized that notification day for the academy was today, I checked on my video’s viewship. Two hits? That’s it? They must really give a small group of people access to the videos, I thought. It was then that I realized that I had left the video private. Not unlisted, but private. As in, no one could see it. So much for that.

If I had just been a little more open to criticism and not tried so hard to hide my video, this wouldn’t have happened. I feel like a big dummy for making such a rookie mistake.

Here’s the video that I meant to share with the folks at Google. Maybe next time.

2 thoughts on “My failed #GTANY application. (Or, the importance of being a little more public.)

  1. Basil Kolani

    No surprise, but it’s official — I didn’t make #GTANY. Congratulations to all that did!

  2. jallenv

    I like it. Would have been interesting to include something about the contextual learning we talked about a few weeks back. That seems to becoming important, both for education, but also commerce.Going to apply again next time?

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