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How Teachers Can Learn From One Another at Unconferences, Meet-ups and Edcamps

MindShift

For larger, more efficient unconferences, the Edcamp Foundation has a site full of resources and ideas for anybody who wants to organize their own “Edcamp,” which is simply a well-articulated version of an education unconference. For the first hour, I attended a session on student blogging. HOW TO DO A SMALL UNCONFERENCE.

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Learning Revolution Newsletter - Weekly Free Event Calendar - Conference Keynotes Update - Edcamp USDOE - Digital Citizenship

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Friday, June 6th at 8am - 3pm in Washington, DC Edcamp US Department of Education: Leading, Learning, Listening , Edcamp US DOE will be an intimate gathering of teacher leaders and policy leaders in order to discuss the most important issues in education. For more information, click here.

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What Are Your EdTech Resolutions?

TeacherCast

Find or organize an EdCamp. Share lessons, images of students engaged in activities to social media. Introduce something New to your students. Jennifer Scheffer – JennScheffer.com @JLScheffer. Setting Technology Goals for 2016. Build Your Tech Skills. Attend a conference/unconference. Earn a credential. Genius Hour.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

This summer, evaluate some of the most popular digital tools to keep our students engaged and safe online. Start by picking a target grade level, then the unit you believe your students need the most. You may even want to find some digital tools to help your students "show what they know" at the end of the lesson.

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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development

Graphite Blog

This summer, evaluate some of the most popular digital tools to keep our students engaged and safe online. Start by picking a target grade level, then the unit you believe your students need the most. You may even want to find some digital tools to help your students "show what they know" at the end of the lesson.

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My Edublog Awards Nominations for 2011

SpeechTechie

Best new blog- all4mychild presents incredibly thoughtful and sophisticated evaluations of apps (and books, in their books4all branch) and bridges student engagement with tech tools into other activities that elicit real-world, functional communication. How lucky am I to get to actually work with Karen in my district??

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Confessions of a Digital Leader: Connectedness is a Part of This Work

RafranzDavis.com

I found twitter, Edcamp and connected to teachers. It was as if the walls of my classroom crumbled and everything that I thought about student engagement shifted. I wanted students to have more “hands-on” contact…not “drag and drop” technology but to create beyond presentations.

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