Meet Telannia Norfar, Mathematics Teacher

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What’s your first and last name?

  • Telannia Norfar

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

  • Mathematics Teacher

How are you involved in education?

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • My ideal school sets high goals for every student and helps them achieve it. The classroom is a personalized learning space.

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

  • I would lead a session on personalized learning.

Do you have a website or blog?

Are you on Twitter?

If you are attending EdCampOKC, we’d love to feature your information here too! Please submit this contribution form, including a small photo we can use in your post.

Meet Ruthie Gallardo-Owens, Educational Technology Integration Specialist

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What’s your first and last name?

  • Ruthie Gallardo-Owens

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

  • Educational Technology Integration Specialist

How are you involved in education?

  • I work with teachers on integrating educational technology in the only Apple ConnectED 1:1 school in Oklahoma.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • My ideal classroom is set up in small groups, not confined to desks, with a variety of differentiated activities happening in all the different groups.

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

  • I would love to lead a session on GAFE or Nearpod!

Do you have a website or blog?

Are you on Twitter?

If you are attending EdCampOKC, we’d love to feature your information here too! Please submit this contribution form, including a small photo we can use in your post.

Meet Madison Harry, Student Teacher – Social Studies

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What’s your first and last name?

  • Madison Harry

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

  • Student Teacher – Social Studies

How are you involved in education?

  • I’m student teaching in a 7th grade Geography class this semester! I’ll graduate from OSU in May with my degree in Secondary Education. You could say that I’m living the dream. 🙂

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • A 1:1 classroom would be ideal, preferably Chrome books! As far as an ideal school, I’d love to end up in a school with a culture of collaboration and support for new teachers.

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

  • “Gamification” and/or “How to survive as a new teacher”

Do you have a website or blog?

Are you on Twitter?

If you are attending EdCampOKC, we’d love to feature your information here too! Please submit this contribution form, including a small photo we can use in your post.

Meet Michelle Waters, 9-11th grade English Teacher

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What’s your first and last name?

  • Michelle Waters

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

  • 9-11th grade English Teacher

How are you involved in education?

  • I have now taught high school English for a year and a half and middle school English for three years. In my previous careers, I served as an award-winning newspaper reporter and a web design and hosting company owner. I draw upon those experiences to help me connect what students are learning in the classroom with the real world.

What does your ideal school or classroom look like?

  • In my idea classroom, students are reading both traditional and contemporary text of their choosing either on paper or on tech devices. Students not only learn the skills and processes described in whatever standards we’re covering, but also real-life wisdom such as the importance of revision, meeting deadlines, organization, curiosity, and never giving up.

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

  • I would love to facilitate sessions on standards-based grading, integrating contemporary texts into the high school English class, organizing student-led instruction, and embedding grammar and vocabulary instruction into high-interest reading and writing activities.

Do you have a website or blog?

Are you on Twitter?

If you are attending EdCampOKC, we’d love to feature your information here too! Please submit this contribution form, including a small photo we can use in your post.

Register for EdCampOKC 2016 Coming March 5th

Make plans now to attend and bring a friend to the fourth annual EdCampOKC, coming up on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at John Marshall High School in Oklahoma City. Registration is FREE and the chances you’ll learn something new if you participate are GUARANTEED! Register on edcampokc.eventbrite.com, and learn more about EdCamps by visiting our About page. All upcoming Oklahoma EdCamps are listed on EdCampOK.org.

If you’re interested in volunteering, please contact one of our organizers. As you’re planning your 2016 calendar, pencil in:

  • EdCamp918 in Tulsa (@edcamp918) on Saturday, January 30, 2016
  • EdCampSWOK in Lawton at Cameron University on Saturday, February 6 2016
  • Texas Ed U Camp in Denton, TX at Texas Women’s University on Saturday, February 13, 2016
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EdCampOKSDE Coming Tuesday July 7, 2015 to Oklahoma City

Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the next EdCamp event in Oklahoma: EdCampOSKDE the afternoon of Tuesday, July 7th! This will be part of the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s 3 day EngageOK conference, held at the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma City. Registration for the entire conference is free via EventBrite. EdCampOSDE will start at 12:30 pm on July 7th. It will include an app smackdown and three sessions, along with a closing session for prizes. The final schedule should be shared and posted soon. Please use the Twitter hashtag #edcampOKSDE to share the event amplify your learning around it! All upcoming and past Oklahoma EdCamp & PLAYDATE professional development events are listed on www.edcampok.org.

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Our EdCampOKC organizer team had a Google Hangout this morning to help plan the event with SDE staff.

April 18th PLAYDATE Details

This information was sent via email to everyone registered for the PLAYDATE PD event on Saturday, April 18, 2015:

A Message from PLAYDATE OKC 2015 Organizers:

We’re looking forward to seeing you at PLAYDATE on Saturday at John Rex Charter School in Oklahoma City! We have 31 currently registered so this should be a super group. We’ve posted updated information on both “our schedule” page and “what to bring and know” page.

Definitely check out our event map!

We are planning to have 3 primary sessions which will repeat during Playdate, but each Minecraft/MinecraftEDU session will have a different suggested focus. You are welcome to attend all three sessions or stay in 1 session all morning… whatever suits you! We have some students who are Minecraft gurus designated to help facilitate/coach the Minecraft sessions, but don’t have other designated facilitators. We do have at least 1 certified Code.org instructor coming, and at least 1 Hopscotch quasi-expert! Remember this is PLAYdate, we’re going to play together and learn lots!

Here is some of the updated information from our website, copied here for your reference. Note on the map that we’ll be using meeting rooms upstairs on the THIRD FLOOR, look for the signs. Enter via the main entrance at Sheridan and Walker, parking is free on the streets adjacent to the school.

This is our updated schedule:
8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Refreshments
9:00 – 9:20 Welcome / Introductions / Overview
9:30 – 10:30 Session 1
  • Computer Lab: Minecraft Survival Challenge
  • Classroom 1: Hopscotch and Scratch
  • Classroom 2: Code.org
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:45 Session 2
  • Computer Lab: MinecraftEDU Tool Challenge
  • Classroom 1: Hopscotch and Scratch
  • Classroom 2: Code.org
11:45 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 1:00 Session 3
  • Computer Lab: MinecraftEDU Treehouse Challenge
  • Classroom 1: Hopscotch and Scratch
  • Classroom 2: Code.org

For our April 18th Playdate we will have:

  1. Open and fast wifi courtesy of OKCPS (The network ID will be edcampokc and will NOT require a password)
  2. Coffee and Bagels
  3. Minecraft and MinecraftEDU installed on 20 iMacs in the computer lab, along with a computer and LCD projector
  4. 29 Minecraft licenses from Mojang (userIDs and passwords) for participants to use during Playdate
  5. A MinecraftEDU server
  6. Printed (yes on paper!) copies of the MinecraftEDU Basic Controls Quickstart Guide (PDF) and Minecraft Recipe Reference Guide (PDF)
  7. Flatscreen televisions with AppleTVs in each classroom
We recommend you install the following software on your own iPad or Android tablets you’re bringing to the workshop. Note Hopscotch is ONLY available for iOS, Scratch Jr is available for iOS and Android:

We also recommend you setup a free account on studio.code.org.

See you on Saturday! Please remember to charge your devices in advance!

Learn About Coding & Minecraft: Saturday April 18 at PLAYDATE OKC (free!)

Would you like to learn more about free apps students can use at school and at home to learn basic computer programming? (These include HopScotch and Scratch Jr.) Would you like to learn more about Minecraft and MinecraftEDU, including ways these programs can be used by students to create simulations, learn problem solving, and practice collaboration skills? If so, please join other educators on Saturday, April 18th, 2015, at John Rex Elementary School in downtown Oklahoma City from 9 am to 1 pm for our third PLAYDATE PD event. FREE registration is available via EventBrite. Learn more about PLAYDATE by visiting playdate.edcampokc.org, and watching the video embedded below. If you have a school-age child interested in coding or Minecraft, register and bring them along too! PLAYDATE isn’t about listening to others present about topics, it’s about PLAYING with apps and software programs and learning more together. “Come join us in the digital sandbox” on Saturday, April 18th, and bring friends, colleagues, and family members along to play and learn together! Best of all, just like EdCampOKC, PLAYDATE is entirely FREE!

Bring your tablet computers and laptop computers, we’ll have open wifi access and school licenses of Minecraft and MinecraftEDU you can install and use on your laptop if needed. If you can pre-install Minecraft and have your own license that is great too – and even better! Be sure you have/know the iTunes or Google Play Store password for your tablet so you can install free coding apps like HopScotch and Scratch Jr. if you don’t have them installed already.

We expect this to be a MUCH smaller event than EdCamp. This is our third PLAYDATE in OKC, and previously we’ve had 15-20 people attend each one. We can accomodate up to 60 people, however, so if you have a big crew you want to invite that’s great – just please have them register in advance so we know how many to expect!

700+ Tweets and a LOT of Learning

EdCampOKC 2015 was a great success on Saturday! Many thanks to our hosts, sponsors, organizers and participants who made it a fantastic day of learning. A Storify archive of 700+ tweets from the day is available, including many photos. Thanks for sharing and keep it up using the #OklaEd hashtag!