Ready to get started with an ICMEE eWorkshop? Just follow these steps! 

STEP 1: Identify with whom you want to collaborate in our professional learning.

Our eWorkshops are for professional learning communities of educators and were designed to provide meaningful opportunities for collaboration. Therefore, our professional learning should be taken with a minimum of 2 educators working together and a maximum of ~10. We recommend groups of 4-6 educators work together in an eWorkshop. It is often beneficial for educators to collaborate in an eWorkshop with other educators from their same school or district, but because of the online nature of our professional learning, educators may choose to collaborate with other educators near and far. We encourage potential participants to utilize our eWorkshops meaningful resources to support collaborative learning via professional learning communities.  For anyone interested in facilitating an eWorkshop we have prepared a detailed guide here. In order to support the agency, leadership, and collaboration of all participants of the eWorkshop we ask that you read and follow the guidelines provided in the ICMEE facilitator guide.  

Please also note that our professional learning is all password protected learning spaces for self-selected communities. The work that participants do in an eWorkshop is only visible to the other members of the learning community and members of the ICMEE Team.

STEP 2: Select the professional learning you would like to take.

We have many eWorkshops available that are described here.  Please review the available professional learning we offer and collaboratively select the eWorkshop, mini eWorkshop, or Book Club that your group will find most beneficial to engage in.

STEP 3: Select the date for launching your professional learning.  Be sure to give the ICMEE team a minimum of two weeks to assist you in launching into your eWorkshop. 

Our professional learning can be launched at any time a group would like to begin an available eWorkshop. Therefore, once a group is put together and an eWorkshop has been selected, determining when to start is the next important step. The ICMEE team requires two weeks advanced notice to set up the eWorkshop for any interested group. Therefore, be sure to select a date that gives the ICMEE team at least two weeks advanced notice.

eWorkshops include six units and each unit takes approximately three hours of a participants’ time to complete. We recommend that groups complete eWorkshops over a 6, 12 or 18 week period. Currently 12 weeks appears to be an ideal length of time to take a eWorkshop. However, we have had many successful eWorkshops run in 6 weeks. Be sure that when you are selecting the time to start your eWorkshop you are planning for the entire eWorkshop to run during the school year. Participants need to have access to students, classrooms, data, etc. to meaningfully engage in eWorkshop learning.

When you reach out to the ICMEE Team to start an eWorkshop, be prepared to share both the start date of the eWorkshop, as well as the timeline you would like the eWorkshop to run on.  Additionally, we encourage you to share with your professional learning colleagues an anticipated timeline to support active collaboration and engagement across the eWorkshop.  Here is a sample of what that might look like for a 12 week plan for an eWorkshop.

Getting Started: September 24th (taking pre-surveys, getting enrolled, meet and greet, starting Unit 1 Explore)

Finish Unit 1 Explore: Oct 1st

Finish Unit 1 Share: Oct 8th

Finish Unit 2 Explore: Oct 15th

Finish Unit 2 Share: Oct. 22nd

Finish Unit 3 Explore: Oct. 29th

Finish Unit 3 Share: Nov. 5th

Finish Unit 4 Explore: Nov. 12th

Finish Unit 4 Share: Nov. 19th

Finish Unit 5 Explore: Nov. 26th

Finish Unit 5 Share: Dec. 3rd

Finish Unit 6 Explore: Dec. 10th

Finish Unit 6 Share and Complete Post-Surveys: Dec. 17th

STEP 4: To request an eWorkshop use the Contact Us form below and submit the following information to the ICMEE Team.

To Request an eWorkshop please submit the following via email to icmee@unl.edu:

  • Name of desired eWorkshop(s)
    • If you would like multiple sections of one eWorkshop, to accommodate multiple groups taking the same professional learning within one school or district, please let us know how many sections you are interested in.
  • eWorkshop start date
  • eWorkshop end date
  • School District and State 
    • If participants are in multiple school districts/states, please list the school district and state for the person organizing the professional learning.  

After submitting this information to the ICMEE Team, you will hear from a member of the team with the information necessary to self-enroll into both our database and your requested eWorkshop. We do not manage enrollments on our end, we send the necessary information and supports for interested participants to enroll themselves. We do support any troubles that may come up (please contact icmee@unl.edu), but the information we provide allows groups to flexibly get themselves started and manage their own work. This also means, that we only need to be in touch with the person or persons organizing the professional learning. The organizer is then an important communicator with the rest of the eWorkshop participants to share enrollment information. Please note we need participants to enroll first in our database with the information provided by the ICMEE Team. Via database enrollment, participants are given the necessary information to navigate to the eWorkshop space that has been created specifically for their group on Canvas.

STEP 5: Use the information from the ICMEE Team to self-enroll into the ICMEE database and get started in the eWorkshop on Canvas. Then begin to learn and collaborate!

Participation in ICMEE professional learning should be flexible, meaningful and enjoyable. If there is anything the ICMEE Team can do to assist you as you engage in our professional learning please let us know!