Dedicated to relinquishing responsibility for learning to the students
edcampPDX is free, democratic, participant-driven professional development. It’s an unconference built on collaboration and dialogue, not keynotes. I’m at the edcamp and also documenting the event via the hashtag #edcampPDX. This Storify will remain as an artifact long after the tweetstream flows on.
The event is being held at La Salle Catholic College Preparatory. Portland Oregon. August 18, 2011. Link to edcampPDX wiki Next edcampPDX set for Nov 11.
At my morning keynote I urged the 450 attendees to start tweeting using the #COSA11 hashtag. A few have started and here’s a Wiffiti visualizer that displays their tweets. COSA 11 is the 2011 Summer Assessment Institute sponsored jointly by the Oregon Dept of Education and the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators. (Eugene Oregon. August 3-5, 2011).
Since a group of 450 seemed too large to pass out evaluations. I used Storify to gather up feedback via Twitter.
I’m a guest blogger attending the 2011 Partners in Learning U.S. Innovative Education Forum (IEF) on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Here’s some of the Twitter stream following our #MSFTPIL hashtag. I’ve met some great teachers with very clever projects. Expect to see some of their guest posts in the future. Click here for info on IEF winners.
Personal note: thanks to Microsoft for bringing recognition to these great projects. I was inspired by the dedicated teachers and their creative approaches to enhance teaching and learning. Thanks to all the folks who posted social media content for me to draw from. While the #MSFTPIL search will eventually fade away from the Twitter feed, this post will remain as an artifact of one awesome assembly of educators.
Here’s a Photosynth of our reception at Bell Harbor. After (most) all of you went downstairs, I decided to document the location – how can you describe a view like that in words?
I’m attending the April 30 TEDxPortland. I’ll be curating the best of social media feed without the RTs, hype and chatter. I’m following the hashtag #XRD on Twitter, FaceBook, and Flickr. So don’t forget to tag! Newest tweets will be at the top of the page – older below. Check back for updates. Go to AM Edition
I’m attending the April 30 TEDxPortland. I’ll be curating the best of social media feed without the RTs, hype and chatter. I’m following the hashtag #XRD on Twitter, FaceBook, and Flickr. So don’t forget to tag! Newest tweets will be at the top of the page – older below. Check back for updates. To see posts from the PM edition click here.
