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Organize and Motivate Your Local Maker Community

Digital Promise

The format of MEMs can vary and depend on the needs of your group. Edcamps are free, public, professional development opportunities organized by educators, for educators. Edcamps are “un-conferences,” unstructured conferences that leverage the knowledge and experiences of the attendees to drive topics and discussions.

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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

q=Education%20podcasts&src=typed_query&f=user Journal or blog- Edublogs, Medium, WordPress, Weebly, Google Sites, Wix Sketchnote- #Passthesketchnote, #Doodleandchat, #Sketchnotefever #Sketchnotefever- Sylviaduckworth.com/sketchnotefever #DoodleandChat- Youtube.com/CarrieBaughcum #PasstheSketchnote- Bit.ly/passthesketchnote-info

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10+ Ways to Recharge Your Batteries Over the Summer

Teacher Reboot Camp

Journal or blog- Edublogs, Medium, WordPress, Weebly, Google Sites, Wix. Virtual group fun! Twitter Chats, webinars, MOOCs, online courses, online conferences, virtual events, livestreams, Edcamps, Facebook groups, #Hashtags. Facebook groups, pages and live events. Facebook.com/groups/search/groups_home/?q=education.

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edWeb Supports Edcamp Phoenix

edWeb.net

Edcamps are a great way for educators to meet with peers in their area and share great ideas. edWeb was pleased to be able to support our friends Peggy George and Deirdre Shetler with EdCamp Phoenix. Edcamp Phoenix has come and gone, and what an event it was! The post edWeb Supports Edcamp Phoenix appeared first on edWeb.

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

MindShift

Meanwhile, the most enthusiastic listeners whisper to each other, or form mini-groups outside the conference walls, maybe even at a social gathering later that day. Even if you send out a group email for people to meet at a coffee shop on a particular afternoon, you’re technically starting an unconference.

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Things That Have Me Thinking-March 28

The Web20Classroom

In her new book It’s Complicated Danah talks with groups of teens all over the country to get to the bottom of their online, social lives and to see what really matters to them when it comes to living in this digital world. The Edcamp Foundation has partnered with the US Department of Education to host the first ever Edcamp USDOE.

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Chaula Gupta Joins Digital Promise as Vice President and Chief Program Officer

Digital Promise

the newly created League of Innovative Students; Digital Promise’s Edcamp Community of more than 60,000 teachers; and a teacher-coach community of nearly 1,000 members. “We In this role, she co-chaired a citywide education funders group focused on principal quality and helped launch The Chicago Principal Partnership.

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