This site is for the online-only EdcampUVic session on:

Wednesday, March 31, 2021
1:00-2:00pm PST
Online

Everyone from within the UVic community and beyond, who is interested in higher education, is welcome – from Kindergarten to Grade 12 teachers, parents, and administration, to university and college faculty, staff, alumni, students, and more. Bring your thoughts for developing ideas and meeting other people with the same interests as you!

An EdCamp is an unconference, which is a user-generated conference. There is no rigid pre-selection of session topics planned in advance. Instead, ideas for collaboration and conversation are determined as attendees identify common themes/topics that they would like to explore, and what they can teach others about.

Below is a great video from EdCamp Vic that explains the concept of an EdCamp well. In this instance, learners and instructors from the Faculty of Education at UVic had the opportunity to mix and share ideas with their field community of K12 teachers and administration. Unconference approaches like this can be applied in any field of study to connect across their discipline and with their practitioner counterparts in the field.

“What began as an idea has transformed into a movement. Since the original Edcamp in 2010 there have been over 700 conferences around the world in 25 countries. In the first few months following that first session in Philadelphia, the Edcamp movement grew and flourished in a grassroots manner. Each Edcamp is independently organized and hosted, is free to participants, bringing together passionate educators for a day of learning and growth. The conferences are participant-driven with the sessions developed and facilitated by the teachers who are attending and leverage social media to involve remote attendees.

By adopting the un-conference protocol inspired by the Barcamp model, Edcamps provide access to high quality, personalized professional learning for all educators. Embracing the belief that fellow educators can be some of the most valuable professional development resources for their colleagues, the Edcamp movement has been recognized by countless organizations, including the United States Department of Education, the Bammy Awards for Education, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the TEDx program and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”  www.edcamp.org