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Edcamp Finds a New Home at Digital Promise

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is incredibly excited to welcome the Edcamp Foundation to our family of projects and programs. By fully merging our operations, we believe we can do even more to support the community of educators who organize and attend Edcamps across the United States and around the world.

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Edcamp Library Promise Goes Virtual

Digital Promise

The Edcamp model of professional development is unique in that the participants drive the learning. Participants decide what topics they would like to discuss and record them on sticky notes—or in case of a virtual Edcamp, topics can be recorded in a shared Google Doc, Padlet, or Jamboard.

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Educators Need Each Other to Thrive: Why Educator Networks Matter

Digital Promise

Educators are a resourceful bunch. The resources I learned about, and the teachers I have met, have made me more confident with powerful digital learning. Manus Edcamp Participant. They probably never envisioned that 1,800 educators would volunteer to organize and host Edcamps in their local communities of practice.

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What is an EdCamp?

EdTech4Beginners

Edcamps are organic, participant-driven professional learning experiences for educators across the country and worldwide! It was an excellent experience and I gained a lot of knowledge, ideas and resources from fellow educators. Here is how my experience of Edcamp went (I live tweeted during the day): What happened at #edcampBKK ?

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Digital Promise Brings Edcamps Into Its Tent

Edsurge

For years, organizers of “ Edcamps ,” a popular brand of informal professional development gatherings for teachers, received a resource kit sent by their host organization, the Edcamp Foundation. Last week, Digital Promise announced it had acquired the assets and operations of the Edcamp Foundation. It began with a box.

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Celebrating Maker Learning with the Edcamp Foundation

Digital Promise

On Saturday, November 4, more than 60 educators joined Digital Promise and Maker Ed for Edcamp: Maker Promise , a full day of powerful professional learning through and about making. Edcamp: Maker Promise was hosted by Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA. Each year, there are an estimated 50 Edcamps held all over the world.

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My Journey to Becoming a Distance Learning Teacher-Leader

Digital Promise

Manus shares how these Edcamps supported her practice and work with other educators, and we look forward to the launch of our next Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home session on November 21. . As I scrolled through Facebook, I saw a teacher post about “virtual Edcamps” being offered by Digital Promise. In this post, Dr. Tina M.

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