{"id":754,"date":"2010-01-28T11:33:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=754"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:33:03","slug":"educon-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"EduCon 2.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I head off to <a href=\"http:\/\/educon22.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">EduCon 2.2<\/a> this will be my third trip. The first conference was something of an experiment with about 75+ attendees.\u00a0 The conference grew out of a conversation and the conversation has not ended.\u00a0 This year there will be 500 participants, reaching full capacity. It will be a lot more crowded, I hope it brings richer deeper conversations.\u00a0 We shall see.\u00a0 This time around I will also be <a href=\"http:\/\/educon22.org\/conversations\/Subversive_PD_Creating_a_culture_of_collaboration_to_bring_educators_into_the_21st_Century\" target=\"_blank\">facilitating a session<\/a>, I was privileged to be asked to join <a href=\"http:\/\/magistram.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danja Mahoney<\/a> and Michael Springer who were planning a session when we meet up at <a href=\"http:\/\/masscue.org\/Conference2009\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">MassCUE<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks for letting me tag along.<\/p>\n<p>We are facilitating a conversation on <a href=\"http:\/\/educon22.org\/conversations\/Subversive_PD_Creating_a_culture_of_collaboration_to_bring_educators_into_the_21st_Century\" target=\"_blank\">Subversive PD<\/a>.\u00a0 We would love our administration and fellow educators to encourage and model technology integration; communication and collaboration with the tools of the day.\u00a0 We would love to have teachers flock to professional development opportunities, but this is not to be.\u00a0 Our reality is that we sometimes need to drag them kicking and screaming to these sessions and that even when attended change in the learning environment happens slowly.\u00a0 There has to be a better way to encourage our colleagues down the hall to explore the possibilities and stretch their wings.\u00a0 We hope to generate some ideas and learn with you about what is working.\u00a0 Please join us if you can.\u00a0 There is so much to choose from, a great weekend of learning and thinking is in store for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I head off to EduCon 2.2 this will be my third trip. The first conference was something of an experiment with about 75+ attendees.\u00a0 The conference grew out of a conversation and the conversation has not ended.\u00a0 This year there will be 500 participants, reaching full capacity. It will be a lot more crowded, I hope it brings richer deeper conversations.\u00a0 We shall see.\u00a0 This time around I will also be facilitating a session, I was privileged to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=754\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,32],"tags":[224,41,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}