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Connected Educator Month.What You Need To Know #CE13

The Web20Classroom

The main website is [link] The hashtag is #ce13 While the calendar on my laptop says September, events have already begun. Running an Edcamp in your area? One of the first things you will want to check out is the Connected Educators Calendar. There you can see all the events planned for everyday of the month. Hosting a Twitter Chat?

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"Edcamp Style" PD- Personalizing teacher learning on a required PD day!

Tech Helpful

On one day in August before the students came, and again in January of this year we set up Edcamp style PD days. While our PD days weren't like the traditional Edcamp style (we actually came up with the choices instead of the teachers making the choices), the teachers found the days to be useful.

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#EdcampHOME is Where the Heart is. for Learning

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

I remember attending my first Edcamp in November and being awed by the session board: its masking taped grid on a cement block school wall and the giant post it notes used for session creation; the organizers on laptops furiously copying the schedule to a Google spreadsheet. edcamp #edtech collaboration edcamp gobstopper Google'

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How Kristen Swanson Applies Her Classroom Experience to Lead ‘Professional Learning’ at Slack

Edsurge

But she’s probably best known as founder of the Edcamp Foundation, which helps teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops. When you walk into a room in morning do people just get on their laptops?”. She still chairs the board for the foundation.).

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Here are some of the latest ed-tech, policy updates

eSchool News

It’s no secret that being able to access enterprise applications and other types of software online—in a 24/7/365 environment—beats having to install, maintain, and upgrade individual applications across multiple desktops and laptops. AASA names 2016 Superintendent of the Year.

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From Playgrounds to Programmers: How Sharing Shapes Schools

Edsurge

The Edcamp movement is another example of educators organizing themselves for the simple purpose of sharing practices, successes, and miscues. Edcamp events are free, generally locally organized “unconference” meetings where the agenda is decided by those in attendance.

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Effective Digital Leadership: Moving Our Schools Forward

EdTechSandyK

Edcamps - unconferences where there aren''t traditional keynote speakers or vendors. Royse City is hosting EdCamp Awesome in Feburary 2014. Don also uses Evernote to keep his notes in the cloud and access them from his phone, tablet, laptop, or computer. Educators come together to learn about topics they want to on a given day.

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