Sentences with phrase «community unconference»

Labeled a visionary in new media with an intuitive sense for how marketing and community outreach should be done, Mr. Penn is co-founder of the groundbreaking PodCamp New Media Community unConference, and co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee marketing podcast.

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That's one possible takeaway of new research revealed at the recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference, a gathering of the co-working community.

Wellstone will provide a home for NOI's broad community of practitioners and power key elements of NOI's core programs, such as intensive, cohort - based skills training for emerging digital organizers and data managers looking to start careers in the field (known as Data and Digital BootCamps); shorter - form skills trainings that have been effective in helping established practitioners take their work to the next level; and events like RootsCamp, an «unconference» that provides key networking, best - practice sharing, and skills development for the progressive data and digital communities.

There are countless examples, but two stand out: the Edcamp movement of educator unconferences; and the ScratchED online community for teachers who use Scratch in their classrooms.

Edcamp founder Dan Callahan talks about how and why the Edcamp unconference movement has grown so quickly and challenges educators to share great ideas with their communities and the world.

The event attracted the attention of educators from around the world — not only for the excellent content and collaborative spirit, but also for the unconference model itself — one that costs next to nothing to produce by facilitating ad - hoc community participation.

This holds true not only for traditional forms of professional learning — seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, mentoring, coaching, and so on — but also for «new» forms that include face - to - face or online professional learning communities, teacher exchanges, bug - in - the - ear coaching, data teams, individualized improvement plans, and unconferences.

A social studies teacher may participate in a moderated #sschat on historical thinking, use the #FergusonSyllabus hashtag to research how to talk with students about systemic race issues, exchange ideas with digital colleagues, challenge local or federal policy by contacting legislators or informing the public, or organize a face - to - face Edcamp unconference in the community (see Swanson, et al., 2014, and Carpenter, 2015b, for more).

While the independent school community is still figuring out how best to use the Edcamp model to broadly serve the needs of independent school educators, Gow says that the core idea of Edcamp — as an unconference where educators get together to decide what to talk about — has caught on in other venues.

I was one of the hundred - plus members of the Writer Unboxed community lucky enough to travel to Salem, Massachusetts for the UnConference in early November.

Sustainability Unconference: Connecting green businesses owners to each other and the community in both San Francisco, California and Honolulu, Hawaii.

Tomorrow marks the third lawTechCamp in Toronto, an unconference designed to encourage the exchange of knowledge ideas between the legal and technology communities.

Unconferences though are relatively scarce in the legal community, probably due to an aversion of many to unstructured environments subject to constant change and revision.