This is also posted on the Southwest PAECT Region Blog on Blogger located here.
TRETC, the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference was held at Bethel Park Senior High School this year. TRETC is an excellent educational conference held in Western Pennsylvania every year, it has been growing regularly since I began attending them back in the early 2000’s.
Below is a Storify of the event, I collected Tweets and here they are:
EdCampPGH is a free “Unconference” where educational stakeholders gather to discuss how to improve education and share ideas. Below is a Storify of Tweets from EdCampPGH.
Last night we interviewed Rachelle Poth, PAECT member and foreign language teacher at Riverview School District. You can access the show recording here.
This is the Storify of our Twitterfeed from last night.
Admittedly, we have not had a lot of Tweets, but we will continue moving forward. It will catch on.
Last Spring, a friend of mine, Michael Micco, @mrmicco, thought it would be a good idea to start an Internet radio broadcast highlighting what PAECT members are doing in their classrooms. We did some background research and a few trial and error exercises with different platforms looking into the logistics of creating a show.
This Fall we came up with PAECT Radio, hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Our show page can be found here, along with archives of our past episodes.
Last night’s broadcast was our first excursion with using Twitter Hashtags to communicate with our listeners. We use #paectradio, obviously, as the hashtag. We did not have many responses for our first attempt, but we also gave short notice about the broadcast.
Here is the Storify from our first endeavor:
The Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference, TRETC, was held on November 18, 2014, with the pre-Conference sessions held in the evening of Monday, November 17, 2014.
Here is the Storify of collected Tweets:
This Fall we held our third edCampPGH, this one was at Propel Braddock Hills.
Here is the Storify the archived what I could grab about the event.
Sorry this is late, but life has been hectic. Click on the link in the Tweet to see the Twitter Feed from edcampPhilly. It is unedited, so some content may have been from spammers or trolls….