Cal Educamp 2011: a Technology and Education Unconference

Please accept my invitation to Cal Educamp 2011: a Technology and Education Unconference

The UC Berkeley Center for Next Generation of Teaching and Learning (NGTL), Education Technology Services (ETS), and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Haas are organizing an Educamp in order to improve our practice in using technologies to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning.... [read more]

Please accept my invitation to Cal Educamp 2011: a Technology and Education Unconference

The UC Berkeley Center for Next Generation of Teaching and Learning (NGTL), Education Technology Services (ETS), and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at Haas are organizing an Educamp in order to improve our practice in using technologies to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning. I’m writing to find out if you would be interested in participating. We have limited space. If you are interested in attending, or know someone that is interested, let me know!

Visit http://caleducamp.wikispaces.com/ to register and for more information. Event Date: Friday, August 5th.

The goals of Cal Educamp are 3 fold:

* First, we want to develop connections among users of technology for learning.
* Second, we want participants to share their experience, practice and tools.
* Third, we want participants to experiment, collaborate, try something new and learn something from each other.

Background on this event:

New media & technology for education is an emerging space that looks to capitalize on the social, participatory, and active nature of various web 2.0 tools to facilitate social learning. There are a wide range of practices that have developed around the use of these technologies because of the new capacities for construction of knowledge and student-centered learning environments. Novel and interesting methods & tools have arisen to take advantage of these capacities.

Why an unconference?

Cal Educamp is a "barcamp-style" unconference which will provide a space for folks to lead and participate in a range of hands-on and conceptual sessions in order to improve their understanding, methods and practices around new technology for teaching and learning. We have chosen to host an unconference because it is a facilitated, participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. Participants will both learn from others as well as share their own skills and experience. We believe this is an ideal approach to the media that we will be studying.

The question is: How can we deepen our own understanding, explore new methods and tools, and improve how we teach and facilitate learning?

Date: Friday, August 5, 2011
Time: All day, starting at 9:00 AM
Where: UC Berkeley Campus at the Haas School of Business
Registration Fee: $25.00 (for food and materials)


For more information and to register: Please visit our unconference wiki at http://caleducamp.wikispaces.com. Any comments or questions welcome!

Please pass this along to anyone you think would be interested!

Cheers,
Bobby

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