The Edcamp Foundation is excited to announce the first EdTech Women Dine at ISTE event. This unique dinner, organized by EdTech Women, will occur at this year’s ISTE conference. The EdTech Women organization is a “networked community for women and their supporters in education technology.” They held their inaugural “Dine” event at SXSWedu in March 2013 and it was very successful, bringing out about 100 women in the educational technology community, including technologists, entrepreneurs and educators, to eat and network. The event organizers are Margaret Roth and Rose Burt at An Estuary and Alison Anderson at Getting Smart, both engaged members of the edtech community.

This month, women from around the country will convene at the second EdTech Women Dine event at the ISTE conference on Monday, June 24th at 8:00pm PDT. The event will be held at Rita’s on the River, 245 East Commerce Street, San Antonio, TX 78205. You must register by June 20th to attend.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with women who share a common passion for technology and education and to engage in discussions around teaching, learning, technology, business and entrepreneurship.

Click here to register.

It’s here! Presented publicly for the first time at Edcamp Philly 2013, this terrific video, including the Grammy-Award winning* Flocabulary Edcamp Rap, was produced by the epic Bill Selak himself, and features performances by this intrepid group of #EduAwesome educators and edcamp fanatics:

Edcamp Foundation Members (Kristen Swanson, Christine Miles, Hadley Ferguson, Kim Sivick)
EdCamp Phoenix
@mrlucero82 and @dierdreshetler
EdCamp Phoenix continued
edcampIS
EdCampBham
Edcamp Maine
@schinker (EdCamp Cleveland)
Donna Miller, Brianne Killion, Maureen Condon
Edcamp Detroit Team
@mwmedvinsky (Edcamp Detroit)
@kylepace
@tbed63 Students
Edcampcolumbus
@EdCampAccess
@catlett1
@techmaverick & @digitalroberto
@billselak
@michellek107, @mrskmpeters
Edcamp SWO
@EdcampHam

Enjoy!

* = we wish!

Thank you, everyone, for making our Indiegogo campaign a resounding success! Because of the generosity of edcampers, especially those listed below, our 501(c)3 application is now in final review with our lawyer. This is a critical step in bringing the edcamp movement towards self-sufficiency. Once the 501(c)3 is complete, companies will be able to make donations to a recognized entity and it is the hope of the foundation that this will open the door to larger donations, bigger mini-grants, and more innovation in professional growth for educators. Thank you again, edcamp nation. Your passion and support is truly inspiring.

Philip Cummings
Richard Kiker
Stephanie Sandifer
Nicholas Provenzano
Gerald Aungst
Aaron Gumz
Matt Arguello
Jeremy Angoff, OunceIT, LLC
Andrew Foregrave
Julie Jee
Karl Lindgren-Streicher
Karen Blumberg
Ryan Wassink
Adam Bellow

Symbols are powerful things and the Flaming Apple of Edcamp is no exception. Our logo was designed by one of my former students, Lorenzo Ibarra. Even at first glance, Lorenzo’s design is a brilliant twist on the barcamp flame. It gives a nod to Edcamp’s roots in that movement as well capturing the burning passion of Edcampers for education.

Dan Callahan shares that, unbeknownst to everyone here at the Edcamp Foundation  (which is quite awesome actually), someone has created a Wikipedia entry for EdCamp! (We’d have preferred “Edcamp” but maybe we can get that changed.)

Edcamp Radio is here! Each week you can hear from a member of the Edcamp Foundation and organizers of recent Edcamp events. Each episode discusses popular educational trends, helpful smackdown tools, and the innovations that make Edcamps magical. You can subscribe to Edcamp Radio on iTunes by clicking here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/edcamp-radio/id590047628. Thanks to the BAM Radio Network for producing and hosting our show!