Where & When?
EdCamp Philly will take place on May 21, 2011 at Jon M. Huntsman Hall on the University of Pennsylvania campus. The address is 3730 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
Edcamp Philly will begin at 8:00am with registration, breakfast refreshments, networking, and session-building with your colleagues. This is when you can sign up to lead a session, prepare for the day’s events, and meet some new friends. At 9:30, the organizers will kickoff the unconference and Edcamp Philly will get underway!
Sessions will be 50 minutes in length, and there will be 10 minutes in between each session to allow participants to navigate the building, tweet, and reflect on their learning.
Lunch will be on your own. There are several local places that have some tasty eats at reasonable prices.
Here’s an overview of the day’s schedule:
| 8:00-8:30 | Registration |
| 8:30-9:30 | Networking and Session Planning |
| 9:30-9:50 | Whole Group Kickoff |
| 10:00-10:50 | Session 1 |
| 11:00-11:50 | Session 2 |
| 12:00-1:30 | LUNCH (on your own) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Session 3 |
| 2:30-3:30 | Session 4 |
| 4:30-6:00 | After party at City Tap House great for networking with new friends! |
Bringing a laptop or netbook is recommended. Wireless internet will be available, and we encourage you to use it!
For those of you who have never gone to an Edcamp before, please make a note of the unusual part of the morning where we will build the schedule. Edcamp doesn’t believe in paying fancy people to come and talk at you about teaching! At an Edcamp, the people attending, or participants, are the ones who who facilitate sessions on teaching and learning! So Edcamp won’t succeed without a whole bunch of you wanting to run a session of some kind! What kinds of sessions might you run?
- Discussions on issues in education
- Share a model lesson or unit
- Conduct an inquiry session into a new tool
- Share something you’re passionate about
- Discuss new things you’d like to learn more about
- Share activities you’re looking to improve
- Anything else you can think of that will get other interested teachers to come and share with you!
Edcamp Philly should be a great day of learning! Even if you don’t feel like facilitating a session, please come ready to share ideas.
To see what sessions ran last year, click here!
Accommodations
Check out these fine hotels near the University of Pennsylvania:
- Sheration University City – 3549 Chestnut Street
- The Inn at Penn – 3600 Sansom Street
- Penn Tower Hotel – 399 South 34th St # 5
