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
5 years ago I published my very first blog post. It was a post highlighting my very first ever conference presentation. Detailing my first attempt to redesign my physics course to put students closer to the center of their own learning. Both the presentation and the blog post were really my first time putting my practice out for a large community. Both of these were steps that I took on my own. But, over the past 5 years many people have given me the opportunity to refine my practice in the classroom and share my work with a larger audience. So, I wanted to take a chance to thank them for making me feel more confident in every risk that I take. All of the changes I’ve brought to my classroom have been with the help of my co-teacher Andelee Espinosa . It’s interesting to look at the presentation we just gave over the weekend highlighting strategies and tools in our fully inclusive physics classroom. All of these changes wouldn’t be possible without the support of my administr