Category: 2017

Meet Bonnie LaFountaine, 4th Grade Reading Teacher

What’s your first and last name?

  • Bonnie LaFountaine

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

  • 4th Grade Reading Teacher

How are you involved in education?

  • 4th Grade Reading Teacher
  • First year in Oklahoma

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

  • Adapting/flexibility – This means communication. Communicating with peers, the willingness to adapt teachings, the willingness to grow… Because, how many teachers have seen the homes with the black the trash bags covering the windows and all of the lights off? Been inside the homes and felt the bugs jump off of your legs?
  • K-8 are ELEMENTARY school teachers. It’s disheartened to hear a teacher say (after being departmentalized) they cannot teach a subject. We are not effective teachers when we do not put our skills to use. Yes, we CAN BE more effective in certain areas. NEVER should we say we can’t teach a subject.
  • Understand that we cannot teach every student the same (discipline, grading). Adapt to a child’s, parent’s, co-worker’s circumstances and be flexible.
  • BUT, consistency.

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Incredible Prizes at EdCampOKC on March 4, 2017

Are you ready for the BEST EdCamp experience EVER?! Help us get the word out about our fifth annual EdCampOKC coming to Del City High School on Saturday, March 4, 2017! FREE registration is available via EventBrite. Our 5th EdCampOKC will not only feature four sessions of self-directed learning and conversations about education topics YOU choose, it will also include AMAZING prizes! Our prize list continues to grow, but already includes:

  1. Five (5) iPad Minis
  2. Two (2) 11″ Dell Chromebooks
  3. One (1) Chillbo Baggins Inflatable Lounge Bag Hammock Air Sofa and Pool Float
  4. One (1) Gaiam Balance Ball Chair
  5. Over $350 in gift cards from Amazon, WalMart and Best Buy!

What other EdCamp in the world can offer you prize opportunities like these? That’s right friends, only EdCampOKC! Come for the prizes, stay for the conversations and the learning. EdCampOKC is a FREE Saturday professional development event like no other! Many thanks to our 2017 sponsors who are making all these wonderful prizes available!

Remember that the fun and the learning for EdCampOKC starts on Friday night at our pre-EdCamp tweetup / meetup! No you don’t have to be on Twitter to come, but we promise someone will talk to you about Twitter at some point during the evening! This year we’ll meetup at Buffalo Wild Wings from 7-9 pm (Friday, March 3) at the 5500 Tinker Diagonal, Del City, OK 73115 location.

Want to start your EdCampOKC learning early on Saturday? We’ll have our 2nd annual CoffeeEDU starting at 7 am! Check out our full (and updated) schedule for more details about the day. Lunch this year will be an hour and a half, on your own, with lots of great restaurants near Del City High School. Come back by 12:45 for our first round of prize givaways! Remaining prizes will be given away at 3:30 following our fourth and final session of the day. You must be present to win a prize!

We’ve got another fantastic tshirt design this year, and are again getting the “soft” tshirts you’ll want to wear to school every week! Please order a tshirt by February 26th. You’ll pay online, and pick up your tshirt the day of EdCampOKC.

Finally, please help us spread the word by printing and sharing our marketing flyers at your school! Post these in your lounge, put one up by teacher mailboxes, and give them directly to teachers you know would enjoy and love the EdCamp experience! We rely on word-of-mouth, personal invitations – so help us out and invite several people to join you at EdCampOKC!

Click below to download PDF versions of our TWO marketing flyers for this year. Thanks to Telannia Norfar (@thnorfar) for putting these together for us this year!

Marketing Flyer 1

Marketing Flyer 2

Meet Ruth Haynes, CTE Computer Technology / Teacher at Capitol Hill High School

What’s your first and last name?

  • Ruth Haynes

What do you teach / what is your ‘title’ at school?

  • CTE Computer Technology / Teacher at Capitol Hill High School

How are you involved in education?

  • I am a secondary teacher.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • Ideally, my classroom would be an environment where students want to learn what I teach. A place where they can learn from me and each other.

If you were to lead a session at Edcamp, what would it be about?

  • I would show educators new updates to Google including Google Classroom and forms.

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Register FREE via EventBrite for EdCampOKC 2017 March 4, 2017

The rumors are true, more Oklahoma EdCamp dreams will be coming true in the new year! Your organizer team for EdCampOKC 2017 is excited to announce FREE registration is now LIVE and available online for our FIFTH Oklahoma City EdCamp coming Saturday, March 4, 2017, to Del City High School in MidDel Public Schools! Please help us spread the word far and wide!

Also order an EdCampOKC 2017 tshirt for just $12! Tshirts will be available for pickup on March 4th. The last day to order is Sunday, February 26th.

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for a fantastic day of self-directed, EdCamp learning on Saturday, March 4th!