{"id":1205,"date":"2014-10-02T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2015-09-08T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T17:51:53","slug":"edcamp-baton-rouge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"EdCamp Baton Rouge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last Saturday\u00c2\u00a0at CMS, we hosted the first EdCamp Baton Rouge<\/a>…and it was such a great day of learning, sharing, and networking! Educators from around the city (and several from other places around the state) came out for a day of “unconference” style learning. We had about 30 people show up, which I think was a good showing for the first event of its kind in Baton Rouge. Less than a handful of us had ever attended an EdCamp<\/a> before, so it was definitely a new concept for most. However, everyone jumped right in and contributed to the learning, which is exactly what EdCamp is all about.<\/p>\n

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As attendees arrived, they used different colored Post-Its to suggest session ideas and topics. Designating different colors really helped us when we were sorting and making the session board.<\/p>\n

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We started the morning off with a few rounds of “Rocks\/Sucks” or “Things that Suck” which got our attendees discussing some hot topics in education. My friend and our CMS Data Specialist, Jason Dupuy<\/a>, did a great job of moderating this activity.<\/p>\n

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Also during this time, we were busy putting together our session board. The digital session board along with links to notes from the sessions can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Since we had a smaller group, we scheduled fewer sessions at each time slot. I had several teachers who had never attended an EdCamp before tell me they LOVED the rule of two feet — it meant they could hit up multiple sessions at a time slot and not feel bad about leaving. A number of attendees said this was the BEST professional development that they had ever attended and they couldn’t wait to recruit more people to attend next year…YES!!<\/p>\n

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At one of our session slots, we held a playground. I combined this idea from EdCamp Atlanta<\/a>‘s 25 minute tech tools session slots and the Librarians Network<\/a> Playground we host at ISTE each year. At sign up, we had people put up Post-Its for a tech tool\/resource they would be willing to demo at the playground. We had eight different stations where folks were sharing their favorite resource (Kahoot<\/a>, Kid Blog<\/a>, PicMonkey<\/a>, Schoology <\/a>– to name a few) and the other attendees floated around the room to learn about the different tools. This was a big success and lots of fun! We will definitely do this again next year, as it was a great way to really get to share tried and true tools that we love and use all the time in our schools.<\/p>\n

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We had the BEST EdCamp lunch EVER, thanks to my awesome parents. They cooked for our crew: pulled pork sandwiches, smoked sausage, beans, coleslaw, and mom’s bread pudding. There were definitely lots of raves about the food and I have to give a shout out to my parents for being so amazing and supporting me in everything I do…including EdCamp!<\/p>\n

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Thanks to my BFF and EdCamp co-organizer Alaina Laperouse<\/a>…you are the best! And thanks to my friends Paula Naugle<\/a>, Marcie Hebert<\/a>, and Chris Young<\/a>…they all traveled in from New Orleans for the day and that meant SO MUCH to me!<\/p>\n

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Thanks the EdCamp Baton Rouge Sponsors: SimpleK12<\/a>, Flocabulary<\/a>, BrainPop<\/a>, Edutopia<\/a>, Follett<\/a>, Oak Point<\/a>, StoryboardThat<\/a>, and 30Hands<\/a>. And thanks to my awesome principal Jason Fountain<\/a> for always letting me run with my crazy ideas and allowing us to host EdCamp at our school (he won the Flocabulary subscription…WOOHOO!).<\/p>\n

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I’m counting our first EdCamp Baton Rouge as a success, and I can’t wait to host another next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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