Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

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. Some offered contact information about “classroom designers” and school vendors. I bounced around a few sessions but settled into one called “Flexible Furniture.”

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Cycles of Learning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

​ Looking for a tangible application for leveraging VR in the classroom? Recently our school acquired a classroom set of Google Cardboard VR goggles via a generation donation from an former student. Student-Driven EdCamps might be an easy way in the door. My top three strategies, ideas, or tools of the week!

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Cycles of Learning

JULY 19, 2018

​ Interested in developing and hosting an EdCamp at your school site? If you found the information in this message useful to your practice, I invite you to learn more about becoming a site member. Check out the the Question Formulation Technique (QFT). Click here to learn more about the process.

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My Paperless Classroom

JANUARY 19, 2024

About our Guest, Adam Bellow Adam Bellow began his career in the classroom as a High School English teacher. Prior to Breakout, Adam served as a Presidential Innovation Fellows for the Obama White House as well as having served as a long-time board member of the EdCamp Foundation. For More Information: [link]

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. The Edcamp model connects educators to PD like never before. According to DeWitt, we can.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2015

An innovative professional development model comes to the classroom. Edcamp “unconferences” have shattered the traditional model for professional development, and they’re catching on as a way for educators to share their ideas and expertise in an informal, collegial way.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The post School Librarian as your Information Overload Superhero! Librarians can (and MUST!) connect users to quality digital resources in a way that increases awareness, efficiency, interest, and impact. Follow her @spkowalski. appeared first on EdTechTeam.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

Makerspaces—collaborative, creative spaces chock full of tools and materials for informal creation, invention, and learning—are becoming increasingly popular at forward-thinking schools and libraries. This type of professional learning—immersive, creative, engaging, and challenging—is focused more on transformation than information.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

On one day in August before the students came, and again in January of this year we set up Edcamp style PD days. She is someone that sees the value technology can add to the classroom and looks for ways to enhance learning in many different ways. SeeSaw- learn how Leigh Ann is using Seesaw learning journal app in her classroom.

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EdTechnocation.com

JULY 25, 2014

Collect Parent Contact Information w/ a Google Form! Use a Google Form to gather Parent Contact Information this school year! But collecting contact information digitally for your class this school year is also about making things efficient and easier to handle! I used to do this with a simple paper form. You can find it here.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I participate in the following ways (please note that none of these options cost me a dime of money)- Edcamp GigCity. This is my fifth year of participating in this edcamp unconference in Chattanooga, TN. This participant directed day allows me to grow contacts outside of my school and learn from others- and edcamps are free.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Collaboration is one of the most valued features of meeting with other teachers, and projects such as EdCamp have demonstrated how successful this informal style of unconference can be in inspiring and enabling teachers. 5 Innovative ways for teachers to connect with other teachers. National Blogging Collaborative.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

They’re responding, they’re getting the information our mentors are sharing. Or maybe they’re happy in their classroom now being a teacher, but all all of them are either attaining or will be looking for jobs this spring. So I’m getting positive feedback from not only in the cohort, but people outside the cohort, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But she’s probably best known as founder of the Edcamp Foundation, which helps teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops. Communication has become instantaneous, informal and it’s also become multi-channel,” she says. What’s a classroom memory that sticks with her? Katrina Stevens, a former U.S.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 27, 2018

Obotix , the company behind Sphero and Ollie, is committed to supporting their robots in the classroom. Look for Edcamps and offer support. Edcamps will be happy to hand out information about an app to participants, but companies should not miss out on the rich opportunity to join the education conversation.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2018

From local Edcamps in your backyard to glitzy conferences dotting the globe, these convenings showcase exciting changes happening in schools and classrooms (and humbling lessons learned along the way). There are also recurring events—such as EdCamp and Maker Faire—that take place year-round across the country.

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EdTechnocation.com

AUGUST 12, 2014

Google added 2 new features to Classroom today! Google promised added features and updates and they delivered today with 2 new features added to Google Classroom! The first new feature in Google Classroom can be found in the menu at the top of the Classroom page. Keep sending your Classroom feedback to Google.

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Kathy Schrock

JUNE 13, 2022

However, Lucid for Education is now providing a product to target the interactive educational needs of schools and classrooms with Lucidspark. MIND MAPS CONCEPT MAPS K-W-L CHARTS TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES CLASSIFICATION PROJECT PLANNING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS STICKY NOTES (great for EdCamps, too!) That information may be found here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

Newsletter Sponsor Click for more information Partner Spotlight CORE Education is a not-for-profit educational consultancy, professional learning and research organisation. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Improving Classroom Discussions by Asking Better Questions. Classroom 2.0

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

First, you have your tinkerers who recognize the network potential of organizing information, resources and advice around communities. This is why hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world are participating in Twitter chats, Edcamps and other informal, organically organized professional learning communities.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 28, 2016

An excellent fit for classroom experiences and professional learning gatherings, each Breakout EDU kit comes with a collection of lockable boxes, an invisible ink pen and UV flashlight, timers, keys, and other “diversion hardware” that can be used to play the Breakout challenges available from the store. EdCamp Foundation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 23, 2017

You will also want to come by PowerSchool’s Classroom of the Future in 207A where they will be giving away Apple Watches, Microsoft Surfaces and Amazon Echoes. For those of you not at ISTE check out the Unified Classroom at [link]. I co-host the weekly Classroom 2.0 That’s powerschool.com/solutions/unified-classroom.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 7, 2015

Obotix , the company behind Sphero and Ollie, is committed to supporting their robots in the classroom. Look for Edcamps <https://twitter.com/EdcampUSA> and offer support. Please set aside a small fund each year to help sponsor food at an event for teachers, but more than that go to an edcamp. Deliver on Promises.

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My Island View

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Anyone who thinks that there is one answer to all that is wrong in education is at the very least ill informed. The best example I can think of is the Edcamp movement. It is a tough job balancing all of that and trying to keep up with what teachers are doing in their classrooms.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 30, 2014

The PD centered around how to use clickers in the classroom. The idea that I could get realtime information back on my students, I saw as a great help to me. When I was in the classroom I was part of a team that helped to decide the direction our PD at the school level would take. I was fresh out of college. Social Media.

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My Island View

APRIL 13, 2015

As educators one would expect that teachers and teacher/administrators should be experts on the best most effective and efficient methods of getting large groups of children to understand, learn, and use information responsibly to create more information. It is probably the key to the success of the Edcamp movement.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 15, 2014

The workshop was an afternoon "hands-on session" and when we were planning, Cheryl and I were challenged to design a workshop that was, fun, informative, and invited teachers to play around and discover what they needed to know. This was not the first puppet workshop we have lead, but we are young in puppet years and we are always learning.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 22, 2017

Educators today can no longer just walk into the classroom, shut their door and teach. The Classroom 2.0 Converse- Consuming information is just part of the overall evolution of a Connected Educator. Sharing is how we all learn from each other, finetune our craft and invite others into our classroom. Visit an Edcamp.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 15, 2012

Some classrooms are lucky. Are they going to conferences or Edcamps to expand their horizons or see what conversations teachers are having? 6) To what extent do you provide support to teachers or staff who are attempting to share information about technology practices, issues and concerns? What should be addressed?

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

Increasingly, today’s teachers share their expertise in organic, peer-led sessions; spread best practices through formal and informal networks; and drive each other’s development with the kind of zeal that traditional, top-down PD has long failed to generate.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. Even before her transfer, Romano-Arribito began attending Edcamps , which are impromptu educator conferences that encourage organic discussion.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Walking into a Merritt Elementary School classroom today, you’ll find students using iPads to figure out math problems and submit their answers, while teachers grade those answers and provide feedback and follow-up support in real-time. Now, teachers create their own curriculum in iTunes U, and the majority of classrooms are paperless.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Meetups are a great, informal way to share and learn ideas from new people face-to-face. Try finding an established meetup with BrewCUE , CoffeeCUE , or EdCamp , or even create one in your own area. Exchange contact information and follow up with a LinkedIn connection. Organize a Meetup. No problem. One Last Note.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 3, 2015

Great group shot of #edcampusdoed w/ @arneduncan pic.twitter.com/oex1G4cNcg — Zac Chase (@MrChase) May 29, 2015 #EdCampUSA On Friday, May 29, I had the privilege to attend #EdCampUSA (aka EdCamp DOED) in Washington D.C. This was no ordinary EdCamp. This EdCamp was held at the U.S. Oh, and the U.S.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Keeping this in mind, I decided to create a visual in the restrooms as a “teaser,” then curate a digital newsletter using Wakelet for teachers to access the same information later if something piqued their interest. . Each volume will have its own tab in one Google Sheet (click here for more information on how to do this). .

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 3, 2016

Perhaps you are looking to go paperless or use a new tool in your classroom. For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. Find or organize an EdCamp. Perhaps you are looking to go paperless or use a new tool in your classroom. Many great ways to participate in the TechEducator Podcast.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

We are so excited to invite you to attend JEDCAMPSFBAY, an edcamp unconference in the San Francisco bay area for Jewish educators. Then you are a Jewish Educator) Need more information? visit our edcamp Wiki page. The people I met at Edcamp have become the active foundation of my Personal Learning network.

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