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In June, the Edcamp Community joined our Digital Promise family. The Edcamp Community supports educators to organize and participate in participant-driven professionallearning designed by and for educators. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Edcamps were typically in-person and locally focused.
As schools and districts across the country transition to distance learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. Educators connect and collaborate at Edcamps. We just couldn’t let go of the Edcamp, which led us to the idea of going virtual.”
On Saturday, November 4, more than 60 educators joined Digital Promise and Maker Ed for Edcamp: Maker Promise , a full day of powerful professionallearning through and about making. Edcamp: Maker Promise was hosted by Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA.
In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond. Maker Learning @ Home Cohort. Identifying the considerations for creating these experiences for learners at home.
In the coming months, Digital Promise will host a number of events, which you can read more about below, to connect educators as they plan for sustainable, adaptable solutions that ensure maker learning opportunities not only continue, but grow to meet our learners’ needs. . Edcamp: Maker Learning. Register here.
But if you ask teachers who have never used a social network, blog, or mobile device for learning in their classrooms to discuss connected education, you are likely to be met with blank stares, furrowed eyebrows and shrugged shoulders. The Edcamp model connects educators to PD like never before. According to DeWitt, we can.
This fall, educators can also continue assisting each other in the transition to digital learning through upcoming Edcamp: Powerful Learning at Home sessions, where attendees can dive into the concerns that matter most to them using an unconference model.
The traditional forms of sit-and-get PD are giving way to MOOCs, webinars, Edcamps and flipped learning. If we take the traditional staff meeting, many times the information shared is just “for your information” or anything that could be posted to a blog or in an email. Check out this blog post to learn more.
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A common cry from teachers across the world is for relevant professional development. The most popular form of the unconference is the Edcamp , but many conferences are scheduling an “unconference” day with this same format. It is free.
Personalized ProfessionalLearning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professionallearning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Budget and Resources.
Jodie Pierpoint on episode 243 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn about this program, how you can join in, and how you can become a better mentor. She blogs and talks all about mentorship. I started blogging about it. I said, “Oh!
All of these organizations are shifting the needle and rocking professionallearning nationwide. This resource is sure to jumpstart your next professionallearning or team building activity! EdCamp Foundation. URL: www.edcamp.org. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). URL: www.iste.org.
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You have taken control of your own learning You have made the decision to be a public learner, swimming through social media waters using tools like Twitter, Google+, Linked In, blogs, etc. You understand & embrace the fact you are role-modeling for kids with every post, tweet, blog, and digital footprint you make.
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Communications scottstaff.blogspot.com - Blog which Don uses to communicate with his staff. Blog also sets admins up in order to be able to do flipped learning with their staff. Professional Growth Don uses Twitter for a professionallearning network. Royse City is hosting EdCamp Awesome in Feburary 2014.
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She said to me something that was remarkable but at the same time, it was a simple concept that should be adopted by any school district wishing to put a value on the professional well-being of their staff members. What is professional development? In the example that my Instructional Coach friend mentioned about her school district.
She said to me something that was remarkable but at the same time, it was a simple concept that should be adopted by any school district wishing to put a value on the professional well-being of their staff members. Step 1: Define What Professional Development Truly Is. What is professional development? Let us look at another.
Plans are in place to provide faculty with appropriate professionallearning opportunities and, perhaps most important, heads of school have nurtured a school culture of risk-taking and innovation in which faculty feel safe to experiment, fail, and try again. They prohibit the use of Twitter and YouTube, and they block blogs.
But with the coronavirus pandemic disrupting more traditional professionallearning opportunities like in-person conferences and workshops, it's time for you to chart your own course. Fortunately, there are plenty of informal ways to learn and grow professionally on your own.
All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professionallearning 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. None of what I’m sharing with you in this blog post is meant to be a “one and done” event.
All too often in education – whether that be at a conference, in a professionallearning 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. None of what I’m sharing with you in this blog post is meant to be a “one and done” event.
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Kristin is a PLN leader for the ISTE Learning Spaces Network and guest writer for ISTE Empowered Learner magazine and blog. She is also the co-founder of Edcamp St. Augustine and Edcamp Flagler, as well as a current board member for the Florida Council of Instructional Technology Leaders (FCITL). About the Host.
The topics were well received because they began to be referenced in Education Blog Posts. Through Twitter I was exposed to many relevant Blog Posts. I was amazed that educators were sharing great ideas on blog posts it opened an entire community of education thought leaders to me. I discovered that Blogs were interactive.
The topics were well received because they began to be referenced in Education Blog Posts. Through Twitter I was exposed to many relevant Blog Posts. I was amazed that educators were sharing great ideas on blog posts it opened an entire community of education thought leaders to me. I discovered that Blogs were interactive.
Pam also loves to create resources to share with educators through her website www.spedtechgeek.com , Twitter, as community manager of the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group and other social media platforms. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. 3 hours professionallearning credit.
Your Local ProfessionalLearning Community (PLC) Why? A professionallearning community (PLC) shares resources and discusses specific student performances. To cement your bond, attend a local conference together or an Edcamp. Your Global Personal Learning Network (PLN) Why? Contributing is easy.
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Check out Jason Bretzmann 's blog post and Christina Roy 's post on this subject too. I would not recommend STARTING to form a ProfessionalLearning Network when attending a conference for the first time. She must be reading my blog!" KtBkr4 My wife is doing Edmodo but a different spin than you are so both would be great.
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