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Wakelet and WeVideo: Powerful Distance Learning Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Mr. Reicher is an avid learner who enjoys going to Edcamps and conferences. Reicher’s students have produced a live morning news show for the past 12 years and recently produced their 2,000th show. His passion is to learn, share, teach and repeat.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. ProudMoment). Step 8: Be Thankful.

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Today’s Classrooms Should Be About Flexible Teaching—Not Furniture

Edsurge

At the end of June a group of passionate, dedicated educators gathered for one of New Jersey’s last EdCamps of the 2017 school year. That EdCamp session ended up covering something more important than how many scoop chairs you have in your classroom: finding more meaningful ways to reach our students by being flexible as a teacher.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. Once the trend goes away so could your brand.

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The Chasm Grows: Public versus Private

Tech Helpful

One of the things that always bothered me as an educator is how polarized I often felt as a private school educator when I attended conferences. Oftentimes the conferences are sponsored by state education departments and even in the opening sessions I can feel completely confused at the acronyms and current mandates being discussed.

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Educational Technology Guy

EdCamp CT is Aug 10th. New Chromebook, Chromebox and updated Chrome OS - look awesome, great for education Don''t forget to check out the permanent pages at the top of the site too! I am also available to speak at your school or conference and to facilitate professional development sessions. I''m going. You should be!

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Off to #CUE15

There is no box

As a CUE Board Member , we receive status updates throughout the year about conference preparations, but it’s actually here! As a huge #edcamp fan, I’m down for some self directed PD as a break from the overwhelmingness that can be CUE. IT stuff like wireless access, chromebooks and Google Apps domains come to mind.

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