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An edcamp is a unconference-style day of professional development organized and given by the local participants. The 2nd edcampPDX was held 11/11/11 at La Salle Catholic College Preparatory in Portland Oregon. This Storify serves as a permanent archive of the event’s social media backchannel. I’m following the hashtag #edcampPDX.
I attended the first edcampPDX back in August – great teachers, interesting conversations and an excellent chance to network. Here’s a Storify record I posted that followed the Tweets from that event. Following the Backchannel at edcampPDX
What is edcampPDX?
An edcamp is a unconference-style day of professional development organized and given by the local participants. More info and sign up to attend here. Twitter updates about #edcampPDX
edcampPDX on Facebook More info on edcamps
What are the goals of edcampPDX?
What does it cost?
The day is FREE!!! (unless you want to pre-order a $5.00 lunch)
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.
Last week, I blogged from the 2011 US Innovative Education Forum (IEF) sponsored by Microsoft Partners in Learning. See my post “Following the Backchannel at Microsoft IEF.” I was inspired by the 100 great projects presented by teachers from across the country. What impressed me most was the great diversity of work. Some projects were very complex in scale, others were elegant in their simplicity – presenting one great idea for the classroom. They also varied in subject matter, grade level and technology. And no, you didn’t have to use a Microsoft product to get in.
I had the chance to interview many of the teachers at IEF. They’ll be sharing project “how-to’s” in future guest posts here at Copy / Paste.
Educator Colin Horack and student Anthony Sablan (left) won first place in the Collaboration category for their creation of Project Unite, developed to combat bullying on campus. Franklin Pierce High School; Tacoma, Washington.
Eleven winning educators from the IEF will represent the U.S. and advance to compete against educators from around the world at the Partners in Learning Global Forum, Nov. 6–11, 2011 in Washington, D.C.
To get a sense of the energy at IEF take a look at this short video. My wife made the video cut (20 seconds in – great red earrings)
…alas, I did not.
