Comfortably 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2012

Edcamp is coming to Central Nebraska! Maggie Mintken, Assistant Principal at Grand Island Senior High, and I had a great discussion this summer as a result of her first Edcamp experience in Omaha last spring that was organized by Josh Allen. We recognized the need for a "workshop by educators, for educators" in Central Nebraska.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2015

Edcamp “unconferences” have shattered the traditional model for professional development, and they’re catching on as a way for educators to share their ideas and expertise in an informal, collegial way. Now, some forward-thinking educators are adapting the Edcamp model for their students, as a way to spark richer conversations.

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The Jose Vilson

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Later that night, I started to think about the workshops I’d like to attend the next day. We also have examples of teachers building their professional sustenance in the form of Edcamps, unconferences, and meetups. When I was a full-time classroom teacher, I took advantage of the opportunity to learn from and listen to others.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

Educators now have to attend mandate-driven workshops on the Common Core, teacher/principal evaluation, and student growth objectives. The trainings that many educators are now forced to attend are usually driven by whatever the federal and state governments have mandated. The key word here is forced.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

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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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 15, 2014

We would love your feedback as we continue to develop workshops to educate teachers in the tools of flipping and the magic of puppets. Sam: In my life as an educator I have lead workshops in responding to student writing, writing college essays, writing blogs with students, and sharing student writing. How to make a puppet: 1.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 20, 2013

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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Kathy Schrock

JUNE 13, 2022

MIND MAPS CONCEPT MAPS K-W-L CHARTS TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES CLASSIFICATION PROJECT PLANNING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS STICKY NOTES (great for EdCamps, too!) I wanted to share a closer look at some of the templates. BLANK CANVAS There is also a built-in timer and a built in vote/poll tool.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I have to admit, that I’ve avoided edcamps and unconfernces for a while, because they have felt to me like group hugs… warm and cozy, but not a lot about moving my learning forward. ” The title and other session topics were decided in an edcamp style format, but with a twist!

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Yet scheduled institute days and workshops are all too often remedial and not responsive to the actual needs of a teacher. This is why hundreds of thousands of teachers around the world are participating in Twitter chats, Edcamps and other informal, organically organized professional learning communities. Participate.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2017

It wasn’t a few hundred strangers sitting through workshops and absentmindedly checking their email; it was some 200 peers challenging, inspiring and pushing one another to new heights. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the model has gained traction among educators in recent years.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Sometimes you get to attend a surprise Edcamp. I was settling in to write when I saw a tweet about Edcamp Los Altos. At Edcamp LosAltos As the first session wrapped up, I was in the MPR and I started talking to John Miller. I checked the map, and it was 2 miles away. In education innovation is not just about workflow or product.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2020

But with the coronavirus pandemic disrupting more traditional professional learning opportunities like in-person conferences and workshops, it's time for you to chart your own course. For most teachers, summer is both a time to recharge and a time to reflect on the past school year and consider new teaching strategies and curriculum.

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SpeechTechie

MAY 9, 2013

Click for More Information July 22, 2013- Boston MA: EdCamp BLC at Building Learning Communities- I am helping to organize this free unconference in which the agenda is built and executed by participants. Now a veteran of 7 Edcamps, I will say again that I learn more at these events than I do from traditional PD!

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 21, 2014

This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending another Edcamp. Don''t know what an Edcamp is or looks like? My experience with Edcamp has been that of a participant and an organizer (EdcampNC!). My experience with Edcamp has been that of a participant and an organizer (EdcampNC!). Edcamp EdcampElon EdcampNC'

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SpeechTechie

JUNE 11, 2013

This is a hybrid course with a 6-hr face-to-face workshop in Waltham followed by an online component, offered for PDPs and an optional graduate credit available from Framingham State College. Now a veteran of 7 Edcamps, I will say again that I learn more at these events than I do from traditional PD!

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Kyle Pace

DECEMBER 5, 2016

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. Have you ever thought about creating edcamp style professional learning opportunities for teachers?

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Kyle Pace

DECEMBER 5, 2016

All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professional learning workshop, or even at a faculty meeting, we have become used to one person in the room being the “expert”, or the “Oz” around a particular topic. Have you ever thought about creating edcamp style professional learning opportunities for teachers?

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Tech Helpful

JUNE 29, 2017

Big news from Wonder Workshop: Challenge Cards- Dash and Dot are some of our favorite robots to introduce robotics to preschool and elementary students. Why not meet them where they already are looking? And as I've heard often but don't know who said it, "someone is going to tell your story, shouldn't it be you?"

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But she’s probably best known as founder of the Edcamp Foundation, which helps teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops. She still chairs the board for the foundation.).

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 5, 2017

4) Workshops Invite/inspire underrepresented colleagues to submit workshop proposals. 9) Support and promote EdTech facilitator and workshop presenter, Carla Jefferson ‏ (@mrsjeff2u ) recommends looking for presenters of color and finding ways to highlight and support their work. Don’t do this. Invite them to present with you.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

They spend their careers striving to become better practitioners, whether through formal professional development activities like workshops and in-service days, or informal engagements like Twitter chats, EdCamps, and virtual coaching and communities. Educators are, by definition, continuous learners.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With easy access to websites, blogs, online PD, webinars, YouTube, workshops, and social media, finding digital resources is not hard to do. Ugghh, help, I can’t keep up! Organizing what we find, however, for efficient access when we need it, might not be so easy.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

While we would like to believe every meeting, presentation, or breakout workshop was meaningful, relevant, and engaging, the truth is sometimes they aren’t. If you’ve been to an EdCamp , Unconference , Unplugged , or other progressive, learner-directed event, you are familiar with the law of two feet.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I personally have used FlipSnack as a way of creating more interesting workshops instead of a powerpoint or Google Slides. And then all the content and the videos and the images and links, they’re all in one spot for the kids to access.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 8, 2018

I’ve talked to some administrators who say, “Hey, we did an EdCamp last month, and the teachers loved it. I mean, when you as a workshop leader, go into a school and teachers have asked for what you’re teaching them…. They love that autonomy.”. And I say, “Excellent! So are you doing it again this month?”.

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Kyle Pace

DECEMBER 12, 2014

We go to edcamps, conferences, webinars, etc. Looking at it through the workshop facilitator/presenter lens, I’m just not into trying to cover 60 tools in 60 minutes or whatever other catchy title there is for it. and get filled up with so many new ideas and resources but we don’t know where to start.

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The PL2C Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There may not be flying cars and hoverboards in 2015, but there truly is so much to offer our students when it comes to digital learning and teaching.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 12, 2018

Participate’s Jennifer Williams shares that the goal is to be the glue , pulling together the array of possible professional development options–edCamps, Twitter chats, workshops, conferences, PLN sharing, and more–into one uniform experience. Let’s take a deeper dive into a few of those opportunities.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. You may even want to find some digital tools to help your students "show what they know" at the end of the lesson. Take a deep dive. This is when I turn to the EdTech Quick Take videos.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 6, 2016

Sometimes we hear about so many different tools from conferences, edcamps, and workshops it can be a little overwhelming. You may even want to find some digital tools to help your students "show what they know" at the end of the lesson. Take a deep dive. This is when I turn to the EdTech Quick Take videos.

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Tech Helpful

APRIL 8, 2018

I've gotten involved with the organization of yearly Edcamp Gig City. I've created the monthly coffeeEDU meet up for Chattanooga area educations based on the hashtag #CHAedu and I've started speaking at educational workshops and conferences as well. I blog my thoughts on a regular basis for all to see.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 13, 2015

For the 2015 NMC Summer Conference Preview of the NMC On the Horizon series on April 14th, we''re highlighting the 2015 NMC Summer Conference with a range of keynote, featured session, Idea Lab, and preconference workshop panelists.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2019

04:26] – Today’s question comes from Sarah Fromhold, who wants to know how to integrate the dynamic learning framework within the parameters of the reading/writing and math workshop model. [08:10] 08:10] – Kasey explains how her on-air coaching episodes work. [09:02] 14:46] – What’s going well in Carly’s classroom this year?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

in a Future Ready Schools workshop. Hold an EdCamp -style PD day in which teachers can move freely between sessions throughout the day, both leading sessions as topic area experts and contributing their ideas through interactive, discussion-based sessions. These are issues I’ll be exploring next month in Washington, D.C.,

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 27, 2015

Edcamps , based on an Unconference model , are free, discussion-based sessions. Teachers can choose how they want to meet their goal, rather it be by attending a conference, workshop, online tutorial, or face-to-face meeting.This allows for individualization, and opportunities for collaboration.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 8, 2016

In my workshops, I always encourage people that if the session doesn’t work for them, they are more than welcome to leave (but not in a threatening way, more in the idea of the Edcamp model of “voting with your feet”), or they can work on things that they are interested in learning.

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