Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I had 17 unique educators notice the tweets and respond- three of them were superintendent level educators, a few were edtech edus, at least three were principals or assistant principals and the majority seem to be classroom teachers but I do not know for sure. At Edcamp Gigcity last spring there was a session about citywide collaboration.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Information from A to Z on EdTech and teaching, it should you your go-to resource. A great place to learn new EdTech tools, and to build your PLN (Personal Learning Network)! It inspired me to start planning the first edcamp buffalo (@edcampbflo)! Edsby: Learning Management System. Hapara | Google Apps Management System.

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2017

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. An version of this post appeared on Education Week’s EdTech Researcher.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 15, 2016

Our team included one of our IT systems analysts, two language arts teachers, a special education teacher, an office support person, and a counselor. We try to send different members of our staff to different Ed conferences throughout the year and this is our second year sending a team to the #gafesummit in Fergus Falls.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 23, 2017

I am an avid edtech blogger. Through the use of the Google Suites apps I am able to collaborate online with fellow educators both in my system and outside. I offer help in my community through edcamps and technology conferences. For me, I often friend or follow people that have different views than myself to grow my mindset.

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Kyle Pace

AUGUST 7, 2015

Go to an edcamp, go to a conference, go to your local Google Educator Group meetup, or use social media to put together your own! There has to be some kind of ongoing support system in place. Leaders, are you keeping your teachers aware of online and face to face opportunities for growth? Empower each other.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“We want to build opportunities for the whole group, not just the top of the pyramid,” notes Fried in the decision to include all tiers of the educational system. When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 3, 2016

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 One of my biggest takeaways came from Danieta Morgan , an Instructional Systems Coordinator from New Visions for Public Schools in NY.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Organizations following Kaizen look at a system as a whole and make slow, small steps to improve. However, with a few exceptions, edtech seems to dominate the teaching videos available on YouTube. At Edcamps across the world, teachers show up on a Saturday morning to an unconference location. ” Kaizen is a mindset.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

We held the first Edcamp in Philadelphia in May, 2010. People tweeted about it and around the country and the world; people began to follow #edcamp! The energy in that place gave birth to a movement that has grown in under five years from a single, initial Edcamp to over 600 events around the world. Image credit: Rob Rowe.

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There is no box

OCTOBER 3, 2015

Local IT service companies tend to be business focused, just like school IT shops of old, and are not well versed in the unique edtech challenges facing classrooms today. I recently attended a fist annual edtech summit hosted in a very remote county in northern California (Go Siskiyou!). Teacher Devices. It was awesome.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

We had 12-15 different educators visiting from 5 different school systems. We adopted the edcamp "rule of two feet" for this event. Our teachers didn't do anything they don't do every single day, we just opened the doors to allow others to see it.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

And we also organized India''s first edcamp, EdcampMumbai. Brandon coordinates the efforts of a national team of consultants, while assisting district and school leaders to implement the ISSN school model and Graduation Performance System.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bottom line, choose the system that works for you and stick with it! Try a Numbering System. I have used hashtags for event files that have hashtags, like #edcamp. Organize into Folders and Subfolders. Once you have determined your naming conventions, you will want to organize things into folders and subfolders.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

" It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” “Can States Tackle Police Misconduct With Certification Systems?” “Is Your Edtech Product a Refrigerator or Washing Machine?” ” asks The Atlantic.

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