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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). Both Apple and Microsoft have associates in their store locations to offer free workshops to help educators use their tools.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. Step 5: Family First … EdTech Second.

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10 Years and 200 Episodes … What Have I Learned as an Instructional Coach?

TeacherCast

In the early part of 2012, I attended my first edCamp in Philadelphia. From that point forward, we started an adventure to create edCamp New Jersey which topped out at over 1,000 educators one year and was visited by the local cops because of the overflow of parking at the school building. Once the trend goes away so could your brand.

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Podcasting How To’s and Tips with Jeff Bradbury and Vicki Davis

The CoolCatTeacher

It had Dan Callahan on from — at that time, he was kind of working with the EdCamp Foundation and founders, and we just did a show on, “What Is EdCamp?”. Six months later, I got an email from this random person that said, “Hey, I just wanted to let you know… We’re here at EdCamp Buffalo. Plus my client shows. Vicki: Wow.

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Introducing the BEST Chrome Extension for Microsoft Office Users

TeacherCast

This past week I attended a fantastic session at EdCamp Central Jersey by my friend Bruce Reicher (@breicher) about 10 great (and amazing) things that you can do with Google. One of these simply blew me away. Over the last few months, I have had the privilege of working with, and training hundreds of teachers…

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How Kristen Swanson Applies Her Classroom Experience to Lead ‘Professional Learning’ at Slack

Edsurge

Before she landed at Slack, Swanson was already a well-known figure in edtech. But she’s probably best known as founder of the Edcamp Foundation, which helps teachers run free, grassroots professional-development workshops. As she continues her work at Slack, she says she never loses sight of lessons she learned as a teacher.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He sits on several non-profit boards, including the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, and on the International Advisory Council for Microsoft''s Partners in Learning program. And we also organized India''s first edcamp, EdcampMumbai.