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
This will be my third year in which my physics students will be collaborating with an elementary school classroom. It is always a great experience but we’ve found a way to make this connection even better with technology. This year we are collaborating with Katie Spadoni’s 4th graders from Dixon Elementary School a mile from our high school. In the past, collaboration days involved school buses and permission slips. Now we can innovate collaboration days into collaboration moments via Flipgrid.
I’ve heard a lot about Flipgrid this summer. I began experimenting with it earlier this school year. But this week I feel like I’ve discovered the power within.
Our first collaboration moment was introductions. These would usually be face to face on the day. But using Flipgrid, my students were able to post an introduction and the 4th graders in Katie’s classroom were able to respond in kind. We could see faces and hear voices.
Today on our visit, our students collaborated on creating videos highlighting failed inventions. We were then able to post them on Flipgrid for all to view and respond to our creations.
I look forward to continuing with this collaboration on possibly a weekly basis rather that the monthly or quarterly collaborations we used to do. I’ve got some ideas brewing in my head for what we can share
- Question of the week or success of the week?
- Explain results of a lab we do in class
- Explain science principles
- Record a demonstration and explain
It’ll be a great way to share our learning with an audience outside of our classroom.
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