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Mahalo, Buncee for supporting The KS UNconference! Buncee is a fun and easy to use presentation tool that’s been helping students & educators across the world create and learn – both within and outside of the classroom. It’s easy to use and appropriate for all grade levels. Jacqui Murray wrote Ten Things Students (and Teachers) Can Do With Buncee and worth the read or learn more by watching the video below.
Registration is OPEN for #KSUNcon
Join us for a free, participant-driven professional development events where the attendees set the schedule and lead the sessions, which are conversations – NOT presentations. The KS UNconference will be an event full of rich discussions, cool demonstrations, plenty of hands-on learning!
When: Monday, June 8th
Where: The Neal S. Blaisdell Center
Schedule: 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM
What is an UNconference? An UNconference and an edcamp are one in the same.
Poster shared by Kasey Bell. Click for details.
UNconferences and edcamps are composed of anyone who shares a vested interest in learning about learning and growing professionally. Unlike other conferences, an UNconference does not include a keynote speaker, the day is planned by the attendees, and the cost of attending is free. If you want to share your ideas, sign up to speak. You want to hear the ideas of others being shared, sign up to attend a session.
Basic Rules of an UNconference – To give you a better idea of how an UNconference works, we want to share the basic rules that guide the day. UNconferences are based on the BarCamp model, and the BarCamp model is based on what is referred to as “Open Space Technology Workshops” where the participants design and drive the day.
The Rule of Two Feet – If people find themselves in situations where they are neither learning nor contributing, they are responsible for moving to another place — using their two feet to find a place where their participation is more meaningful.
Whoever comes are the right people. This reinforces the wisdom to achieve solutions is present in the room.
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have – This keeps the attention on the best possible effort in the present, instead of wondering endlessly about what should or could have been done.
Whenever it starts is the right time – This reminds people that creativity cannot be controlled.
When it is over, it is over – This encourages people to continue their discussion so long as there is energy for it. This may result in a short session not filling the entire time allotted, or it may result in a session longer than the time allotted.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
Note – This is a vendor free event.
As part of this year’s Kamehameha Schools Education Technology Conference 2014, BELIEVE, we are gearing up for KSUNcon 2014! Get ready for an amazing, social event filled with interesting conversations with like minded people who want to connect, learn and share! It’s going to be UNbelievable!
When: June 2, 2014
Where: Blaisdell Center, Maui Room
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
What’s an Unconference?
At an unconference there is no set agenda or scheduled keynotes. Nor are there any formal presentations. It’s all about conversations. Attendees meet, share ideas, and have conversations based on interest. If you want to share your ideas, sign up to speak. If you want to hear the ideas of others being shared, sign up to attend a session. No preparation needed!
Basic Rules of an UNconference
To give you a better idea of how an UNconference works, we want to share the basic rules that guide the day. UNconferences are based on the BarCamp model, and the BarCamp model is based on what is referred to as “Open Space Technology Workshops” where the participants design and drive the day.
The Rule of Two Feet
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
One of the many conversations at The KS UNconference was to start a twitter chat for educators in Hawai’i. The purpose of the chat is to connect, share, and learn from one another. Sound simple? Yes and no. I think it was @fenwayfan808 who asked, “Who’s going to come to our chat?”. We realized that while there are a lot of educators in Hawai’i on twitter, there are also many who are not. So while #HIchat is a go, we’re also going to start slow (did you see how that rhymed?).
Step 1 – start using #HIchat in our tweets
Step 2 – Gather a list of Hawai’i Educators on Twitter (Add your name here if you’re an Educator in Hawai’i!)
Step 3 – Share with our colleagues the value of social learning through twitter and other social media. This could be at a faculty gathering where we share an educational hashtag stream. @fenwayfan808 had a term for this, but it slipped my mind…
Step 4 – When the time is right, schedule a #HIchat
Hawai’i is a special place and there are so many wonderful things happening in and out of our classrooms across the state. Let’s connect, share, and learn from one another!
Kudos to the #HIchat tweeps that started the conversation:
@mrsvconley
@mkurashige
@joannjacobs68
@elliemellie
@philaganus
@fenwayfan808
@mauilibrarian2
Here are some of the photos from The KS UNconference. You can view them on Flickr by clicking on the Flickr Photo link in the menu.
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
