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5 Tips for Planning a Kidcamp, the Student-Driven #Edcamp

Edsurge

By now you’ve probably heard of edcamps —free, organic, participant-driven, “un-conferences” that empower educators to maximize professional learning experiences and peer networks. As a longtime enthusiast, what I love most about the movement is that at its heart it’s all about educators teaching and empowering other educators.

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Parent/Educator EDU

My Island View

In September of 2014 I wrote, Educating Parents About Education , a post supporting the idea that we need to better educate parents about education in order to have them engaged as advocates and not adversaries for much of the needed changes in education in regard to methodology, pedagogy and technology.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Also, people have used it to create, like we’ve had a summer technology institute, and we’ve created our schedules for that institute within FlipSnack and then shared the FlipSnack book out. Vicki: Ok, so how can a teacher get started with FlipSnack without getting overwhelmed? How to get started. Try FlipSnack!

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