Looking Back at 10 years of EdCamps Oh how the time flies, EdCamp Madison is turning 10 this year! It will be held Saturday, February 3rd at Sun Prairie West High School. Which can be found at 2850 Ironwood Drive in Sun Prairie Wisconsin from 8:30 am - 3:00 pm. Get more information and register here: https://sites.google.com/sunprairieschools.org/edcampmadwi/home I will always remember sitting in my first EdCamp opening session at the very first EdCamp Madison and having no clue what I was in for. So, I’d like to take this space to go over some of the basic rules of EdCamp. No One Will Pitch It for You EdCamps are unconferences. By this I mean that they have a blank slate of sessions for the day. There may be a few predetermined sessions, but ultimately the session topics are determined by attendees during the pitch & plan session that opens the day. If an idea gets pitched there will be a session on it. If a topic doesn’t get pitched, there won’t be a session on it. So, it i
I finally finished Stranger Things on Netflix over the weekend and I highly recommend it to any child or the 80's. It's a mix between classic Stephen Spielberg and Stephen King. One of my favorite laugh out loud moments involved the kids' science teacher. Here is an exchange between one of the kids and his science teacher Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke : Hello? Dustin Henderson : Mr Clarke, it's Dustin. Mr. Clarke : Dustin? Is everything okay? Dustin Henderson : Ye-yeah, I just, I, I have a... science question. Mr. Clarke : It's ten o'clock on Saturday. Why don't we pick this up on... Dustin Henderson : Do you know anything about sensory deprivation tanks? Specifically how to build one? Mr. Clarke : Sensory deprivation...? Wh-what is this for? Dustin Henderson : Fun. Mr. Clarke : Okay. Well. Why don't we talk about it Monday, after school. Okay?... Dustin Henderson : You always say we should never stop being curious, to always open any