Professional Development – Relearning Learning

Another Plug for edcamp Philly 2011

This event is totally free but registration closes on May 15, so if you think there is a possibility you might go, you should reserve a spot now.

When: Saturday, May 21st
Where: Jon Huntsman Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Cost: FREE!

The day is completely unstructured until that morning, when the schedule of sessions is built by the attendees themselves. Sessions can range from discussions about assessment to sharing of Web 2.0 tools to interactive sessions. There is a lot of social networking and use of technology, but it is NOT a technology conference. Next to someone with an iPad you will also see someone taking notes on a legal pad. However, if you are looking to open up your classroom to more technology this is the place to go.

The best part of edcamp? The Rule of Two Feet. If you walk into a session and it’s not what you expected or you are not impressed, you can simply choose a different session.

What’s more, you can take tips, tricks and ideas back to your classroom on Monday and the whole day is FREE!

For more about edcamp, visit our website and check out the video below:

Ed Camp from True Life Media on Vimeo.

ntcamp Philly

ntcamp is very excited to announce the partnership of ntcamp and WHYYPhiladelphia! This summer ntcamp will be hosted by WHYY at their studios on Independence Mall, Philadelphia. The event will take place on Saturday, July 30, 2011 from 8am to 4pm. The ntcamp organizers are very excited about this partnership and excited to bring ntcamp into the heart of Philadelphia.

The primary focus of ntcamp will be presenting a day of engaging, participatory driven professional development to new and veteran educators. All levels of experience in education or related fields are welcome. Everyone attending is welcome to lead sessions. The driving philosophy of ntcamp is that each year we should all consider ourselves new teachers regardless of our experience. Each year we should drive to learn something new and integrate something fresh into our classroom practices.

EduCon 2.3

EduCon is an educational conference in Philadelphia hosted by Science Leadership Academy and the Franklin Institute.
All conference sessions are live streamed so you can attend them virtually (and the streaming is all set up and run by SLA students).

Guiding Principles of EduCon
Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members
Our schools must be about co-creating — together with our students — the 21st Century Citizen
Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around
Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate
Learning can — and must — be networked

Global Education Conference

Bienvenue! Welcome! 歡迎! Willkommen! Benvenuto! 반갑습니다! Seja bem-vindo(a)! Bienvenido!

The 2010 Global Education Conference is being held November 15 – 19, 2010, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort to significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.

There is no formal registration required for the conference, as all the sessions will be open and public, broadcast live using the Elluminate platform, and available in recorded formats afterwards. Links to watch the sessions will be posted a few days before the conference begins, in the “Sessions” and “Schedule” pages, and recording links will be listed soon thereafter.

K-12 Online Conference

This free online conference for teachers runs for two weeks starting next Monday, 10/18. Each day several videos or presentations will be posted and there is space for online discussion.

The conference is organized around four threads: Student Voices, Leading the Change, Kicking It Up A Notch, and Week in the Classroom. Several of the presentations sound very interesting to me, and I think will be to many of you. Here’s the schedule of presentations.

The opening keynote from teacher Dean Shareski is already up, an interesting piece on sharing as a moral imperative for teachers. It also includes some contribution from Dan Meyer who we saw in the video last Friday.