Sentences with word «unconference»

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that «coworking's all grow'd up».

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

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).

Just three months earlier, myself and a team of fellow educators organized the first Edcamp unconference at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

The very last question Don Maass asked us at the end of the Writer Unboxed UnConference earlier this month, was: How do you want your novel to change the world?

The King of Unconferences in my book would be Mr. Bill Boorman.

I had a great time presenting at U of T Biomedical Communications Alumni Association's 10th annual Unconference on 2016 - Nov - 19!

We had two custodians on duty for unconference setup, unanticipated needs and breakdown afterward.

The edcamp model is based on the international unconference model, BarCamp.

By now, many educators are familiar with Edcamps, also known as unconferences.

A project of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council — the only multinational chapter of the U.S. and Canada green building councils — the International Living Building Institute will convene its fifth annual unconference in Vancouver this April.

Stay tuned for more and join us at the Living Future unConference for the Cascadia Green Building Coalition visioning event!

Sometimes I'll hear things passing by like, «I don't like going to sessions,» or «I don't learn anything at unconferences.»

In San Francisco one can find hacking events on a daily basis, as well as many unconference events where people get their hands dirty playing with code.

In the afternoon they will be holding a «Library Camp» of unconference sessions.

At the latest Sustainability Unconference in San Francisco in January, Dylan Bondy, Outreach Team Lead of Imperfect Produce, gave a talk about the food waste ecosystem, and what their company is doing to fix the problem.

Drawing Democratic online political staff from around the country and «organized» on the fly in classic unconference style, it'll no doubt focus on this...

Edcamps are a type of teacher - organized unconference that allows educators to get together, often for only a day, to engage in discussion - based professional learning.

The very last question Don Maass asked us at the end of the Writer Unboxed UnConference earlier this month, was:

Drawing Democratic online political staff from around the country and «organized» on the fly in classic unconference style, it'll no doubt focus on this year's elections — a perfect opportunity to spread the word about a certain recent e.politics e-book (hint: look to the right).

In a discussion about the recent French presidential election at the Personal Democracy Forum unConference this past Saturday, Pascal - Emmanuel Gobry presented an interesting thesis: not only did Ségolène Royal's «net - centric strategy fail to win a majority at the polls, but her campaign's emphasis on citizen participation may have actually backfired entirely by undermining her perception as a leader and by leaving her dependent on a fatally unrepresentative group of voters.

To toss you guys a final morsel from last weekend's PDF unConference, Josh Levy led a great discussion of activism in Second Life, using as a starting point a short documentary he created.

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.

Dr. Joe Mazza, principal and blogger, takes unconferences and edcamps to the next logical step as he provides a detailed guide to hosting your own ParentCamp.

To engage even more teachers in this powerful unconference learning model, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded a $ 2 million grant to the Edcamp Foundation.

In June 2016, a partnership between South Brunswick librarians, Joyce Valenza, Professor of Library and Information Science at Rutgers, and the New Jersey Association of School Librarians culminated in the Library Lit Unconference held at Crossroads North, a celebration and exploration of literacy in all its forms.

I was signed up to go to the Writer Unboxed Unconference last November, but I felt like an imposter, embarrassed to let on that I was in the middle of a novel I hated.

It all started back in 2011, when Elam attended the Coworking Unconference hosted by the now shuttered Loosecubes..

This Saturday, the History Camp Unconference brings together speakers on topics ranging from Roman soldiers, American suffragettes, Salem witch trials, and the Boston Post Road.

Smaller events for just a school or district's staff members should technically be called «Edcampstyle» events or just unconferences.

2018 Just Food Unconference Sunday, March 25th, 8:45 am — Persist / Resist!

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.

Part unconference.

Boston GameLoop is an annual game development unconference.

Alex Stamos, the man who for more than a year now has been in charge of securing Yahoo, the sometimes forgotten internet giant that boasts more than 1 billion users, was opening the doors of the company's office for something called the «Trust Unconference.»

Ahead of the event in May, we are taking a look at some the companies and people who are taking part in the massive unconference — an open space event with organization powered by participants.

2050 is a volunteer - only, not - for - profit 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.

In only a few weeks it's time again for Coworking Unconference Asia — CU Asia; one of the biggest yearly coworking events in the world.

The vast majority of genuine unconferences set up on Digital Britain were again the initiatives of the working digital media community.Reply

That's what Mat Kaplan asked the passionate space enthusiasts at the 2013 SpaceUp LA Unconference.

I'm here for the annual ISTE conference and its innovative kick - off gathering, SocialEdCon — the one - day unconference formerly known as EduBloggerCon.

Edcamps are educator - led unconferences — conferences that have no set agenda.

As if it were a surprise that educators feel more supported and prepared when they choose their own learning experiences, approximately 79 percent indicated that unconference PL opportunities are effective in general (Howard, 2016).

This year, a new type of edcamp sprouted up called PadCamp, a free unconference all about the exploration of the use of tablets, e-readers & other handheld mobile devices in K - 12 education.

Along with a few unconferences that include edcampNJ, edcampPhilly, edcampNYC, edcampNOLA (Skype), edcampBoston (Skype) NJECC Annual Conference and the NJEA Technology and Learning Conference.

Edcamps are exciting, engaging unconferences that put the learning back into the hands of educators, and in this book Kristen Swanson provides step - by - step directions so educators can create their own in their building, district, county or state.

If you've read this far, perhaps you can see why the teacher unconference is so popular.

She currently serves on the advisory board for Remind101 in San Francisco and is an organizer for the EdCamp Detroit Annual Educational unConference.