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From EdCamps to Google, 11 Professional Development Offerings for Teachers This Summer

Edsurge

Grab Your Tents: Time to Go Ed-Camping Okay, so for most of these edcamp events you probably won’t need a tent, but they are often full of multi-day events (so pack snacks). A Big Tech Summer Whether you are Google “certified” or Apple “distinguished” there is always more to learn about those endless software updates from the tech giants.

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Using EDCAMP for Professional Development for All Teachers

Saving Socrates

I attended my first EdCamp, called JEDCampNYNJ and on a Sunday last spring. You may be thinking, what makes this type of conference different than any other professional development conference I may have attended in the past? At EdCamps, this is a given. So what makes a conference a JEDCamp rather than an EDCamp?

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Albert Szent-Gyorgi The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" As we''re arranging for keynotes for upcoming conferences, we''re getting lots of great confirmations. The Future of Museums Conference will feature Elizabeth Merritt and Alex Freeman. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner?

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The Chasm Grows: Public versus Private

Tech Helpful

One of the things that always bothered me as an educator is how polarized I often felt as a private school educator when I attended conferences. Oftentimes the conferences are sponsored by state education departments and even in the opening sessions I can feel completely confused at the acronyms and current mandates being discussed.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Parents couldn’t really look at it unless they were in the library for parent-teacher conferences or whatever. Along the bottom, it has all your pages and it looks like another other kind of presentation type software you have used. And all the kids would look at it once and then nobody ever looked at it again.

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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. The major momentum behind micro-credentials. Educators are, by definition, continuous learners.

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Educators as Empowered Citizens (Unpacking the ISTE Standards for Educators)

Tech Helpful

I offer help in my community through edcamps and technology conferences. I often will choose software that works with Google because I know my students can sign in through their accounts. I share my own failures and successes on my blog for anyone to see. Safe practices. This allows me to protect the privacy of my students.