London, United Kingdom — 27th March, 2018 — Pillar's unconference — billed as the «Woodstock of crypto» — to attract over 500 blockchainers to the Lithuanian capital — The Pillar Project, a Swiss - based non-profit building the world's most advanced cryptocurrency and token wallet, will hold its annual summer
unconference in Lithuania at the Vilnius Grand Resort, 15th — 22nd July, 2018.
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.
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.
A new partnership between Silicon Energy and CrystaLite that was announced at the recent Living Future
unConference in Seattle is bringing a new alternative to photovoltaic solar roof implementations and ground - mounted installations: the solar structure.
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.
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).
It's only $ 45, which includes full access to
the Unconference in Washington, DC, snacks, catered lunch, and happy hour love.
The codebase is intimidating for newcomers but we're here to help - join on IRC, view the new contributor tutorials on https://t.co/pvR2JBV4LK, and join the Developers
Unconference in Tampere, Finland in June - https://t.co/WIFk8emoGX
We hosted two
Unconferences in 2017 in SF and look forward to move in 2017 - 2018.
The King of
Unconferences in my book would be Mr. Bill Boorman.
Not exact matches
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.»
Iris Kavanagh: Laura and I think it's possible that we met at the very first coworking
unconference that was hosted by Loosecubes
in Austin
in 2010.
Sopia is referring to ABCN's annual conferences and forums, the next of which will take place May 3 - 6
in Los Angeles
in collaboration with the Global Coworking
Unconference Conference (GCUC).
The 2018 Coworking Forecast, created by Emergent Research and the Global Coworking
Unconference Conference (GCUC), recently forecasted that over five million people will be coworking
in 30,432 spaces around the world by 2022.
GCUC 2018 Coverage The Global Coworking
Unconference Conference (GCUC) took place this week
in New York City.
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.
Those numbers are from the 2018 - 2022 Global Coworking Forecast, released
in December by Emergent Research and the Global Coworking
Unconference Conference (GCUC).
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Unconference Conference (GCUC) took place this week
in New York...
We are happy to announce that the 2nd and final MariaDB Developers
Unconference of 2018 will take place
in Tampere, Finland during the last week of June: 26 June — New Contributor Day 27 — 28 June — Developers
Unconference 29 June — Patch review day Seravo are kindly hosting the event.
Just
in time for Global Coworking Week, I'm chatting with Liz Elam, founder of Link Coworking
in Austin and founder and Executive Producer of the Global Coworking
Unconference Conference.
Episode 11: Global Coworking Trends
in 2016 Just
in time for Global Coworking Week, I'm chatting with Liz Elam, founder of Link Coworking
in Austin and founder and Executive Producer of the Global Coworking
Unconference Conference.
She has hosted the annual Global Coworking
Unconference Conference (GCUC) for four years running, bringing together key influencers
in coworking from all over the globe.
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.
And since it's an
unconference, self - appointed «experts» (like me) can't overshadow new folks doing new things — if you want to talk about something other people might find interesting, just schedule a session and watch the crowd roll
in.
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.
NonProfit 2.0 delivers the best of both worlds, offering great keynote sessions led by Amanda Rose, Founder of Twestival, but
in an
unconference way with no PowerPoint, 15 minute leads, and open questions and dialogue for fantastic conversations.
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.
Plus, it's an
unconference, meaning that participants create the agenda on the fly, and
in the process talk with each other rather than at each other.
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).
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.
As I explained
in my first post of the series, the edcamp
unconference model is based on the BarCamp
unconference model.
This is the final post
in a four - part series on running an edcamp
unconference.
This experience sparked our passion for the
unconference model and inspired us to share the model with our colleagues
in education.
Later blog posts will discuss sponsorship, but keep
in mind that edcamp
unconferences, as ad - hoc gatherings, do not require the bells and whistles of a traditional conference.
The ParentCamp experience, by design, is a hybrid «
unconference» opportunity for parents and teachers to come together and model the four core beliefs highlighted
in Beyond the Bakesale by Anne T. Henderson, et al..
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).
Just three months earlier, myself and a team of fellow educators organized the first Edcamp
unconference at Drexel University
in Philadelphia.
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.
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.
Social media was a big help
in securing the financial support necessary to stage our
unconference.
In this four - part series, Ms. Hertz explores the edcamp model, and shares some tips on how to organize and host an edcamp
unconference.
See where Edcamps and
Unconferences got their start with Open Space Technology, an inclusive decision - making model for crowdsourcing the best ideas
in your school or classroom.
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.
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.
And the free, participatory
unconferences of Ed Camps — organized by teachers for teachers — have focuses as varied as how to teach quantum physics with dance or how to engage
in public / private school partnerships (Swanson, 2014).
«
Unconference» Originator Early ASCD conferences started out with a «Presentation of Problems» session
in which experienced educators would describe discussion group topics so that attendees could select which topic most appealed to them before beginning a three - day exploration of their chosen topic.
More of an
unconference —
in which the educators would get together with no other plan than to talk about the issues
in education that concern them most.
Infusing the Edcamp Spirit
in PD For a school working on revitalizing its adult learning culture,
unconferences hold great promise.
Administrators and teacher - leaders
in her region are organizing an
unconference event
in November called TechShare (#techshare14), which will bring together 600 - 700 educators from five districts to explore tech topics from game - based learning to Google hangouts.
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.