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
It's been a while since I've written a post. The transition to term 3 with new courses all around has delayed my ability to reflect. In addition, I just had LASIK surgery so, I've been trying to limit screen time a little bit. But, it's officially been 14 days. So, here we go! Well, the Oscars were last week and I've been thinking a bit about best picture winners and memorable quotes. When it comes to educational buzzwords that have been floating in my head, this is the one that keeps springing to my mind. One of the biggest pushes in education these days is personalization. There is a phrase that is constantly floating around the idea of what personalization entails and that is "student voice and choice". In this post, I intended to focus wrapping my head around what we mean when we say student voice. In my next post, hopefully it'll be soon, I'll try to tackle the idea of choice. Let's wait on defining what we mean by voic