Sponsor Spotlight: Atrion

Many thanks to Atrion for their Silver Sponsorship of EdCamp CT 2012!  We appreciate their support tremendously!

Atrion is an IT Services Provider that designs, deploys and manages business-driven information technology solutions for AlwaysOn performance. Partnering with Atrion enables our clients to increase business-impacting user productivity, promote growth and become more profitable by ensuring that their applications and infrastructure are always available when they or their clients need them.

Registration for EdCamp CT 2012 is now Open!

We’re happy to announce that registration for EdCamp Connecticut is now open! Reserve your tickets here.

If you’re unfamiliar with the EdCamp format for professional development, read our About page, view pictures from EdCamp CT 2011, check out the sessions that were offered last year, and visit the EdCampCT posterous, where participants from last year shared their experiences, pictures, and reflections. We hope to see you this summer!

EdCamp Connecticut Details:

Save the date! August 10, 2012

The potato chips from the inaugural EdCamp CT in 2011 were just too good.  So mark your calendars for EdCamp CT: The Sequel on Friday, August 10th.  Once again, educators from all sectors (public, independent, parochial, homeschool) and of all grade levels are welcome.  The cost will be FREE.  We hope you can join us!

Stay tuned for more details!

Sponsor Spotlight: igxglobal

We are so grateful for the support provided by our Gold Sponsor, igxglobal!

igx provides information technology services and solutions designed to improve the performance, infrastructure and security of our clients’ operations. We pledge to understand your business model, your customers, and your expectations in order to provide you with the most viable information technology solution. With a customer-focused approach and a comprehensive life cycle model of solutions, we will be your long-term partners in ensuring the performance, infrastructure and security of your information networks. These solutions are systematically delivered in our life cycle model: Threat Mitigations Services; Information Technologies; Professional Services; Managed Services. Whether your requirements warrant strategic or operational solutions, or the implementation is handled by your resources or ours, igxglobal has the experience, expertise and knowledge to enhance your network’s performance, infrastructure and security.

Share your EdCampCT Experience via Posterous

Since EdCamps are all about sharing and openness, we’ve created a Posterous site (http://edcampct.posterous.com/) where everyone who registered for EdCampCT can share their experiences in a quick and easy way.  If you take notes on any sessions, take any pictures, shoot any video, prepare any slides, or write up any reflections or summaries of your EdCampCT experience we’d love to have you share them on this site.  Ideally, this Posterous site will become a collective record of what participants see, learn, think, feel, and experience by attending EdCampCT.  The site will become a virtual archive of the event from which anyone can learn.How?
All you need to do is send an email from the account with which you registered for EdCampCT with your text, pictures, or video attached to edcampct@posterous.com.

We’re looking forward to all the learning and sharing!

Session Ideas

Got an idea... again!

In just 2 weeks EdCampCT will be in full swing.

Do you have an idea for a session you’d like to lead? Is there a topic you’d really like to learn about at EdCampCT? If so, add it to our Session Ideas Wallwisher so everyone can see.

Follow this link to get to the Wallwisher & post your ideas! (no sign in necessary)

Schedule

Here is the tentative schedule for EdCamp CT on Thursday, 8/18!

  • 8:00-9:00 Registration, Continental Breakfast, Networking
  • 9:00-9:45 Official Start! Announcements, Schedule Creation
  • 9:50-10:30 Session 1
  • 10:40-11:20 Session 2
  • 11:30-12:10 Session 3
  • 12:20-1:10 Lunch
  • 1:20-2:00 Session 4
  • 2:10-2:50 Session 5
  • 3:00-3:30 “Web 2.0 Smackdown” (lightning round of resource sharing) & Wrap Up
  • 4:00-6:00 Happy Hour at The Iron Frog Tavern, 6 Wilcox Street, Simsbury, CT 06070

For anyone unfamiliar with the EdCamp “unconference” format, the time between 9:15 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. will be devoted to creating the agenda for the day.  Rather than hire others to pick the topics and do the talking, EdCamp participants themselves will propose and lead the day’s sessions.

To lead a session, you need not bring a slick presentation or feel you have to be an expert on a particular topic or tool.  Some of the best sessions are generated by a single question that leads to rich conversation and the sharing of a group’s collective experience and wisdom.  Great sessions also come from sharing an idea, a project, a lesson, a resource, an epiphany, or your vision for what’s possible in today’s learning environments.

In short, EdCamp CT will be what we make of it!  We hope you’ll arrive energized to lead, actively participate, share, and make connections that will enhance and enrich our experiences as educators and learners.

Sponsor Spotlight: EdTechTeacher

We are incredibly grateful to EdTechTeacher for their Platinum Sponsorship of EdCamp CT!  Their generosity is playing a pivotal role in helping to make EdCamp CT a reality.

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EdTechTeacher is an educational technology professional development provider dedicated to helping teachers use technology to create active, student-centered learning communities. The EdTechTeacher “Teaching for the 21st Century” Professional Development Program (T21) provides cohorts of teachers the opportunity to develop their technology integration skills over a one-year period with the coaching and support of educators who have extensive experience teaching with technology. EdTechTeacher also offers technology integration workshops each summer in the Greater Boston area and we travel to schools around the country, and abroad, to deliver keynote presentations and lead workshops.

Sponsor Spotlight: Atrion

Thank you to Atrion for their Silver Sponsorship of EdCamp CT!  We greatly appreciate their support!

Atrion is an IT Services Provider that designs, deploys and manages business-driven information technology solutions for AlwaysOn performance. Partnering with Atrion enables our clients to increase business-impacting user productivity, promote growth and become more profitable by ensuring that their applications and infrastructure are always available when they or their clients need them.