Due to parent-night I wasn't able to participate in this first #ADEchat of the season! However, #ADEchats are very instructive. The questions asked, made me think of my role as a teacher and ADE-er. So a couple of days after the regular #ADEchat I looked back the whole hour and filtered the questions out of the stream of very enthusiastic ADE-ers! Here are my answers to the questions.
The topic of this evening: Vision and Impact. The hosts of this event: Lyndsey and Alina.
Q1: Have you tried anything new in the classroom last year?
Yes!! With great help from Miriam Walsh I connected my class with her's and the students share some video's with each other! It was very nice!
Q2 What new tools are you going to introduce into your teaching this year?
Next year, all of our students will have an iPad. I'm going to use Apple Classroom. Didn't experienced with it last year. The last 2 weeks were great! Using Classroom in class is very easy! And it has great benefit. I love the possibility to airdrop something with the whole class at once!
Q3 What's your schools vision and why is it important?
We are having a hard time to define our schools vision. Small and engaged is what we do, we see each student. We give them the time for upgrowth. Not every child is ready for K12 in a big school with 1500+ student. Our small school with small classes and engaged teachers give them confidence to grow!  
Q4 How do you plan to help other teachers in your school to integrate technology into their classes?
The plan is: not to do it all on my own. Give teachers the opportunity to ask me anything they need to get more confident in using #edtech in their classroom. There has to be a 'safe' environment so teachers know nothing is too weird to ask! We won't laugh!
Q5 what educational projects are you going to promote in your school?
Share, Share and share some more! 
​The respons of Koen triggered me. He made me curious. What does he mean with:

@Koenmariën: A5 self paced professional learning
Q6 what are the key changes you want to see by the end of this school year?
I hope teachers will be more engaged with #edtech.

With one small tweak you can help a teacher to make another step into his/hers personal professional development. This is the original idea born in Berlin during #ADE2016.
That was more than a year ago. Now there is Clips! Great app to tell stories en visualize little tweaks! 

It will be my intention to resume my participating in the weekly #ADEchat. Today's was live from the academy in the UK. Topic: being an ADE, what does that mean?

It's like ages ago.....I don't know yet what the effects will be but I'm going to find out the next few day's here in Amsterdam (while we are actually in Noordwijkerhout)

Tonight I'm visiting Judith Van Sprundel. We are both selected for ADE class of 2017. As we all know this is the best class ever! 
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We are starting with tea and tony chocolonely (never heard of? To bad!!) and a little chat. We know each other from Twitter. Luckily I already had the opportunity to see her classroom. It is famous for the 'kampioenen muur' Champion wall in English. Every student who wins a game (quizlet, quizziz, Kahoot) may sign his or her name on the wall. It works! Students are more motivated for learning.

I told her about my experiences with introducing my colleagues to the iPads. Next year all our 170 students will have their own iPad. Not every teacher is using the device yet so there is a lot of work to do! 

By joining this ADE program a world had opened up for us. We will share our experiences so stay tuned en see ya in Amsterdam!

I love my pretty little notebooks with real paper in it. I allow myself to buy only one when I'm on holiday. I will miss that in the future. From now on I only will use OneNote on my devices! 

Last night #ADEchat was hosted by Suzanne Lustenhouwer and Casey Cohen. Topic: Global collaboration.