Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

While device penetration is increasing and edtech products are proliferating, adequate infrastructure in schools lags behind. What if we could provide all schools with affordable consultants and researchers to aid in the edtech selection process? Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 27, 2018

Whether you are a teacher trying to figure out how to invest your limited class resource budget, or an edtech company trying to secure your place in the market, customer service is something to look at closely. Look for Edcamps and offer support. Strive for zero downtime. Whatever your product or service, it needs to work all the time.

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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. Here we go again!

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

The parallels between the early days of the world wide web and today’s edtech scene are surreal. First, you have your tinkerers who recognize the network potential of organizing information, resources and advice around communities. In the nineties, this included. Now I can’t remember the last time I actually wrote a check. Participate.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2017

How to stay posted on the latest edtech events. There are also recurring events—such as EdCamp and Maker Faire—that take place year-round across the country. Fear not: All event names in the PDF include links to the event page where you can find updated information. Download the calendar (PDF). Check out our Events board.

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Technology Edcamps Conference Education 138

Tom Murray

AUGUST 28, 2016

As mentioned in my previous post 16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools , prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

Fortunately, there are plenty of informal ways to learn and grow professionally on your own. Expand your personal learning network (PLN) Simply put, a PLN is a group of people you connect with, in order to learn from and with them, both formally and informally. Check out this list of some popular education-related hashtags.

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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. So go get started!

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Personal Learning Network Personalized Learning Edcamps Social Media 101

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

For us, it was at EdFoo 2017 , an un-conference of teachers, edtech gurus, funders and others gathered at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters for three days of spontaneous learning. When was the last time you walked into a conference without an agenda? Or, for that matter, without the slightest idea of what you might learn?

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 22, 2017

Edchat, #edtech, #makered, and #pbl are just a very small part of the much larger educational hashtag community. Converse- Consuming information is just part of the overall evolution of a Connected Educator. Visit an Edcamp. The places to consume wonderful educational content are vast and endless. Start a blog. Send some tweets.

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Tech Helpful

APRIL 17, 2018

I'm not the first to tell the edtech world this.Leslie Fisher blogged about it several months back and educators everywhere have been loading up buggies of these little goodies, myself included. I look for opportunities for my teachers to attend and I serve on organization committees to give more educators these chances- i.e. Edcamp Gigcity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Before she landed at Slack, Swanson was already a well-known figure in edtech. 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.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Some dislike the competitive aspect, but personally I value the information shared during this time of year as bloggers share posts about the resources that inspire them, and the nominees list always reveals new educators worth following. Best open PD / unconference / webinar series- Edcamp ! The recent episode on the "PD 2.0

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2017

There's a huge gap between what's being designed by edtech companies and what is happening in classrooms and what classrooms need. Good resources for finding quality digital resources and apps: Students EdCamp PLN on Twitter Educator Blogs When selecting tools and resources: Ask what the core functionality of the app is.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Hugely informed and supportive of teachers. June 19, 2015 by Chopstick Sensei from United States I don’t know how Jeff makes the time for this empire of his, but he’s putting together amazing information to help teachers out. Information from A to Z on EdTech and teaching, it should you your go-to resource. Great stuff!

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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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MSEDTechie

MAY 23, 2015

Many teachers use blogging as a way to share information with parents and other educators the wonderful things they are doing in their classroom. EdTech Magazine created a list of Must Read Educator Blogs. How do you measure how effectively you have been integrating edtech tools into the classroom? Need some ideas?

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TeacherCast

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

For more information, please visit www.techeducatorpodcast.com. Hugely informed and supportive of teachers. June 19, 2015 by Chopstick Sensei from United States I don’t know how Jeff makes the time for this empire of his, but he’s putting together amazing information to help teachers out. The information is always useful.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 28, 2014

How much time does edtech leadership spend gaining perspective? Anytime, Anywhere Learning for All Recognizing organizational hashtags, chats for "credit" Flipped faculty meetings, learning opportunities for students, staff, & community School/District EdCamps & ParentCamps - go to edcamp.wikispaces.com to learn more!

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I am an avid edtech blogger. While the free online community of the internet gives us rights to so much information, also contributing to the digital landscape should be a responsibility of an educator. To access the information and turn it into knowledge is contingent on our own curiosity. Media fluency. Safe practices.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 27, 2015

Edcamps , based on an Unconference model , are free, discussion-based sessions. Teachers can “drop-in” to the administrative center at their convenience on a given day to have coffee and snacks, and talk tech in an informal, cafe-style learning environment. Gamification relates to applying game thinking into a non-game context.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 22, 2019

For more information on how to use Calendar appointments with your GSuiteEDU account (not available in personal accounts), check out this Google support page. As an edtech team (4 of us) we have a Team Drive that we have all GSuite files organized. For more information on how to use Tasks, check out this Google support page.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 18, 2021

Participants will be informed that the host has ended the meeting. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. Leave meeting : The host will leave the meeting, but the meeting will continue. End meeting for all : Everyone, including people in breakout rooms, will be ejected from the meeting.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 15, 2016

Sure, it’s a lot of information to take in in only a few day time span. We began to hold mini #techslams at our staff meetings, held our own version of an #edcamp, engaged in Twitter challenges, created a #Pineapple room for collaboration, and saw over 90% of the staff implement Google Classroom. is that your staff has a fun time.

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2017

How can you create informal learning spaces for people to gather? There are schools where administrators are experimenting with models of teacher-led professional development like EdCamps. EdCamps are conferences or professional development days that have learning sessions, but they aren’t planned in advance.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

I share a lot of information and resources to help educators reach their goals of becoming Google Certified. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. The post Google Success Story: Pam Hubler, Google Certified Trainer appeared first on Shake Up Learning.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

The plan spotlights other Educator Innovator partners like the National Writing Project , EdCamp , Connected Educator Month , P2PU , the Future Ready Schools Initiative , the YOUmedia Learning Lab Network , and the National Park Service who are all using technology to narrow the digital-use divide.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 3, 2016

Peers, teams, cohort, informal, and formal settings) Happy employees are more productive, so they believe in finding the best people , growing them, and keeping them. They just kept coming… We had sparks (inspirational talks), then sprints (speed work time), hypercamps (an edcamp 1st cousin), then reflections, dance battles, and magic tricks.we

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It seems like every single city we go, there’s an edtech rodeo—and no matter where we go, we’ll find a good show. There are also recurring events—such as EdCamp and Maker Faire—that take place year-round across the country. All event names in the PDF include links to the event page where you can find updated information.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 21, 2020

As I’ve mentioned before, blended and online learning makes it difficult to get context, and we need to offer multiple ways to process new information. The Edcamp model is a great way to offer teachers more ways to connect and learn together with very little planning. Include multiple types of media to support learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

More information in presenting HERE. TIG has engaged more than 40 million young people in 13 languages in informal learning, and has a growing community of more than 4,000 schools in 140 countries taking their classrooms global. And we also organized India''s first edcamp, EdcampMumbai.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Did you know that Google Drive allows you to add even more information to your files and folders? Here you add additional information, a more detailed description, a note to yourself, or whatever you need. I have used hashtags for event files that have hashtags, like #edcamp.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

“Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.” “Why Fixing the Pipeline Alone Won’t End Edtech’s Diversity Problem ,” says Edsurge. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via The Atlantic : “The Confusing Information Colleges Provide Students About Financial Aid.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Edcamps : The ‘Unconferences,’ Where Teachers Teach Themselves.” Via the Getting Smart blog : “Incubating EdTech: AT&T Announces 4th Aspire Accelerator Class.”

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