Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
Our driving question was "How can I use physics to hack sports?" So the intention was for students to make a connect between physics and a sport of their choice. When given voice in the topic that they would cover, students gravitated to sports which played a major role in their lives, sports they were passionate about.
The result is a product which doesn't simply tie physics to sport. It ties physics to something the student is passionate about. So, although the video tells us about physics and sport, it tells us just as much about the student. It's a beautiful realization I never thought I'd see, but it is powerful.
As a science teacher, the traditional approach to a lab report creates a distance between the author and the data. A product like this does just the opposite. It shows how we live in a world governed by natural laws and why we need to understand them. The student who created this video is Danyell Chupp. If you enjoy her video, I'd encourage giving her a shout out on Twitter @danyellchupp.
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