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ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 – L’ Appel de propositions ouvert dès maintenant !

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Nous sommes tous impatients de nous reposer, de nous détendre et de restaurer nos esprits et nos corps. Cette année n’a pas été comme les autres et nous avons tellement appris.

l’OOCÉ a une vision pour notre prochaine année scolaire dans laquelle nous espérons que vous pourrez vous reconnaître. Le camp ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 aura lieu les 18 et 19 août. Nous sommes à la recherche de pédagogues qui peuvent partager leurs expériences, leurs outils, leurs stratégies et leurs idées. 

Le thème du camp ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 est

Rebrancher. Revitaliser. Renouveler

Éduquer ce n’est pas (seulement) remplir un vase, c’est allumer un feu.
— William Butler Yeats 

L’année dernière nous avons surtout réagi, mais nous nous en sommes sortis – et certains ont même pu s’épanouir. Le camp #ECOOcamp est l’occasion de raviver notre amour partagé de l’enseignement, de rallumer le feu sur les questions qui sont importantes pour nous en tant que pédagogues, la chance de nous détendre et de prendre le temps de nous asseoir et de discuter avec nos collègues, nouveaux et anciens.

Cette année le camp provincial #ECOOcampON nous offre un perfectionnement professionnel virtuel, conçu et fourni par des pédagogues pour des pédagogues. Le camp nous offre la possibilité de créer des réseaux d’apprentissage professionnel qui nous appuieront tout au long de l’année scolaire à venir, et nous donne l’occasion de nous réunir et de célébrer nos forces et nos réussites.  

C’est le moment de se rebrancher, de se revitaliser et de se renouveler.

L’appel de propositions est maintenant ouvert et restera ouvert jusqu’au 23 juillet 2021.
Lorsque vous vous sentirez prêt, nous aimerions avoir de vos nouvelles.

 

Comité du camp ECOOcamp Ontario 2021
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ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 – Call for Proposals Now Open

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We are all looking forward to resting, relaxing and restoring our minds and bodies. This year has been like no other, and we have learned so much!

ECOO has a vision for our next school year in which we hope you can see yourself. ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 will be taking place on August 18 & 19. We are looking for educators who can share their experiences, tools, strategies and ideas.

The theme for ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 is

Re-connect. Re-energize. Renew.

Education is not [just] the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
—  William Butler Yeats

This year was all about reacting, but we made it through – and some even thrived. #ECOOcamp will be an opportunity for us to rekindle our shared love of teaching, re-stoke the fire about issues that are important to us as educators, and relax and take the time to sit and chat with friends, new and old.

This year’s province-wide #ECOOcamp event offers virtual professional learning, designed and delivered by educators for educators. It provides opportunities to build professional learning networks that will support us throughout the coming school year, and gives us all a chance to come together and celebrate our strengths and accomplishments.

It’s time to re-connect, re-energize and renew.

The Call for Proposals is now open and will remain open until July 23, 2021.
When you feel ready, we’d love to hear from you.

 

ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 committee
Educational Computing Organization of Ontario

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In Conversation: Amazon Future Engineer Tours

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ECOO President Lynn Thomas joined Stephen Hurley of VoiceEd Radio to discuss the Amazon Future Engineer virtual tours / Projet de voyage virtuel sur le terrain that are currently being hosted in partnership with Fair Chance Learning. and Amazon.

Joining Lynn and Stephen are:  Susan Ibach (Amazon Future Engineer, Canada), Martha Jez and Bushra Ul Hack (Fair Chance Learning), and Chris Tucker (OCTE, Curriculum Consultant YRDSB).

Ontario Educators are invited to register their classes for this unique opportunity. Participating ECOO members are eligible for special prize draws for Amazon gift cards and swag.

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FCL AFE ECOO Projet de voyage virtuel sur le terrain

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Si vous n’avez pas encore connu les leçons de coenseignement, nous allons partager une merveilleuse surprise avec vous et vos élèves. 

L’OOCÉ entre en partenariat avec Fair Chance Learning (FCL) et avec le projet d’ingénieurs futures d’Amazon* (AFE) pour vous offrir une semaine de sorties éducatives virtuelles pour vous et vos élèves afin d’explorer la technologie des centres de distribution d’Amazon ! 

Nous sommes ravis de pouvoir vous offrir la chance de voir comment le codage, la pensée computationnelle, les algorithmes, l’apprentissage automatique et l’ingénierie sont appliqués dans la vie quotidienne. Vous sortirez de cette expérience en disant “Wow, je ne le savais pas !”. – plusieurs fois !  🙂

Vous êtes invité à inscrire votre classe à l’un des cours de visite virtuelle GRATUITS qui auront lieu pendant la semaine du 17 au 21 mai 2021. Il y a huit périodes de temps disponibles et vous recevrez des liens permettant à vos élèves de participer à la visite, qu’ils soient avec vous ou non. Vous remarquerez que vous pouvez vous inscrire en dehors de la semaine du 17 au 21 mai, mais ce sont les seules dates qui ont des prix spéciaux pour les membres de l’OOCÉ. (La sortie virtuelle sur le terrain avec le projet d’ingénieurs d’Amazon pour nos salles de classe francophones se déroulera au centre de distribution en France avec des guides et des ingénieurs français. Surveillez les mises à jour plus tard ce mois-ci!)

Une trousse de l’enseignant a été créée pour vous aider à établir des liens entre la visite et le programme cadre. On encourage les élèves à poser des questions aux experts en ingénierie et à répondre aux questions posées par les guides tout au long de la visite.

 Consultez la trousse de l’enseignant, qui contient des liens avec le programme cadre et des activités de suivi!

Mais ce n’est pas tout !

Rappelez-vous que nous avons mentionné les prix?  Tout au long de la semaine, les membres de l’OOCÉ participeront à TROIS, comptez-les, trois prix de présence tirés au sort pour gagner des cadeaux d’Amazon et du FCL. Si vous avez besoin de motivation pour renouveler ou obtenir votre adhésion à l’OOCÉ, la voici ! 

Amusez-vous bien, et inscrivez-vous vite !
Conseil d’administration de l’OOCÉ

*Amazon Future Engineer est un programme qui offre un accès équitable à l’enseignement de l’informatique aux jeunes défavorisés et sous-représentés.

 

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ECOO FCL Amazon Future Engineer Virtual Field Trip Event!

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If you haven’t experienced co-taught lessons yet, we’re going to let you and your students in on a wonderful surprise. 

ECOO is partnering with Fair Chance Learning (FCL) and Amazon Future Engineer Project* (AFE) to provide a week of Virtual Field Trips for you and your students exploring the technology of Amazon’s Fulfillment Centres! 

We are thrilled to be able to offer up this opportunity to get an inside look at how coding, computational thinking, algorithms, machine learning and engineering are applied in everyday life. You will come out of this experience saying “Wow. I didn’t know that!” — a whole bunch of times!  🙂

You are invited to register your class for one of the FREE virtual tour lessons to take place during the week of May 17-21, 2021. There are 8 time slots available, and you will receive links for your students to join the tour whether they are with you or not. You’ll notice that you can register outside the week of May 17-21 but these are the only dates that have special prizes for ECOO members.

A Teacher Toolkit for the visit has been created to support you with curriculum connections. Students are encouraged to ask questions of the engineering experts and answer questions posed by the tour guides as the tour takes place.

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Teacher Toolkit
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We have not forgotten about our french educators and their classes either!  The Amazon Future Engineer Virtual Field Trip for our francophone classrooms will tour a facility in France with french guides and engineers. Watch for updates later this month!

Get more information register your class today! 

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But there’s more!

Remember we mentioned prizes? Throughout the week of May 17-21, participating ECOO members will be entered in THREE, count ‘em, 3 door prize draws for great swag from Amazon and FCL. If you ever needed an incentive to renew or get your ECOO membership, this is it! 

 

Have fun, and register soon!
ECOO Board of Directors

*Amazon Future Engineer is a program that provides equitable access to computer science education to underserved and underrepresented youth.

 

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This is the week to try something new!

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Being the Educational Computing Organization in Ontario means that this week is a really big deal to us!

It’s Computer Science Education Week, with events happening all week long to support you and your students to start looking at coding if you have never done so before or to challenge those of you who know their way around the blocks. 🙂

We’ve put 10 coding organizations that are geared towards Canadian educators all in one place so you can take your pick of what you want to try but the point is, try something.

Take a look at the Coding Platform tab in the Collected Resources on the ecoo.org website but also watch the Events page as well. SO many opportunities are out there for you to experience.

 

Just tonight, I ventured into a multi-player Minecraft world with Andy Forgrave and some other brave Ontario educators and although I couldn’t make my computer do what I wanted it to do without a mouse, the fact that I have dabbled with my students during this week in years past with events like Hour of Code meant that at least I could code my agent to do a task. THAT was an accomplishment.

Now it may be next year during Computer Science Education Week before I get a micro.bit coded to water my plant but I’ve taken a first step. Maybe you and your students will soar. You just won’t know until you try. This IS the week to try something new. Double tap that SPACE bar and see what happens.

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Et ACTION! Fall Support Series is flippin’ awesome!

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Last week, I wrote a blog post about the first partner we have for the ECOO Fall Support Series, Logics Academy. Starting on Tuesday, November 17, they will be working with participants to help them gain an understanding of Coding through StoryTelling or Game Design. I ended that post by saying, but wait, there’s more. Well. Not really those words but you’ll see why I’m saying it now.

During the summer, four very passionate educators joined the ECOOcamp Ontario committee and blew me away with their enthusiasm, skill and desire to help others navigate what online/blended/whatever back to school would look like. Michelle Fenn, Max Thomson, Megan Park and Deanna Palmer make up the incredible team of @TechTime4EDU. They started by offering PD by the Pool to KPRDSB educators during the summer and now are continuing to support the KPR community with a PD in Pyjamas series. Insert virtual hug here.

When Logics mentioned that they would like to introduce Flipgrid as a presentation tool at the end of their 4 week series of workshops, I could not think of a better support to offer those educators (and everyone one else!) than a session about Flipgrid with TechTime4EDU and the best part is that the workshop is being offered in french and in english. Did I mention how incredibly talented these women are?

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Full session description can be found the Fall Support Series page under the events tab:

Register at the Fall Support Series page. Once you are registered, you will be directed to a form to choose these workshops and select from any of the other sessions offered. They’re all part of your package but you choose what you would like to attend.

Remember, ECOOcamp Ontario participants have a free registration to the Support Series but they must check their email for the link to sign up for sessions!

Everyone else gets to register for $15.00 and then have access to the over 20 webinars and events that will take place between November 17 and December 9.

Come play, learn and connect. We all need a little play time right now.

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Great Learning … plus some Door Prizes!

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Sessions in our online Fall Support Series are set to get underway in a little less than a week, and as the starting dates approach, it’s time for us to let everyone know of some of the door prizes that will be available to lucky participants!

We were so pleased to have the support of many generous sponsors during our August ECOOcamp Ontario online conference, with at least one door prize for each of the over 115 sessions that were offered during the 3-day event. (A little bird tells me there were, in fact, over 200 prize winners all told.)

CanCodetoLearn was one of our most generous sponsors at ECOOcamp Ontario and they are hitting the ball out of the park again! They are donating a LAPTOP and a CHROMEBOOK for two lucky participants in our Fall series —  all you have to do to be eligible to win is to sign up for a Fall Support Series session!

Participants in the sessions offered by Logics Academy will have an opportunity to win robots — a Dash and an MBot will be available  as door prizes for the Grades 1-4 Coding through Storytelling series and the Grades 5-8 Coding through Game Design series.  Note that each of those four-session series begins this coming week, with registration closing on Monday and Tuesday respectively — if you’ve not yet registered, The Time is Now!

If you registered to participate in ECOOcamp Ontario this summer, your summer registration allows you to join into the Fall Support Series at no cost. Check your inbox for details on how to select your sessions and get your name into the running for the door prizes.

If you weren’t with us in August, you can register for the Fall Support Series at the reduced price of $15 — allowing you to attend all of the sessions over November – December event, as well as gaining access to the 100+ session recordings and 80+ slide decks/resources from ECOOcamp Ontario. That’s a pretty decent bargain!

Full details of all sessions (along with the Registration button for New Participants) are listed on the Fall Support Series page. We look forward to reconnecting with you in the coming weeks and hope to add some additional support to your efforts during the push through to the winter break.  Stay the course!

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Online Learning This Week

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There is a lot happening this week — full details and links for this week’s online learning opportunities are available in the Upcoming Events section of the website.

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OTF Connects – Webinar series

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New, practical and fun!  The Ontario Teachers’ Federation has just announced the latest series of their OTF Connects webinars, bringing together a selection of Ontario educators to share hands-on distance teaching strategies and approaches to wellbeing.

“Come join us in a relaxed atmosphere as we jump into stories of what has been working for us – or maybe not so much – and what you might want to try out as we navigate these unprecedented times together.”

View the list of upcoming webinars.  The individual sessions are also listed in the ECOO Upcoming Events.

Can’t join the live webinar? No problem. All webinars will be recorded and archived for easy access anytime.

Click on past webinars to view OTF Connects archived webinars from previous series.

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“Make A Difference” #MADPD 2020

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The organizers of MADPD invite you to join in all weekend long — from the comfort of your home — to learn from and share with educators around the globe.

How does #MADPD work?

Every half hour, starting at 8am on Saturday morning, a presenter will populate their MAD (Make A Difference) Video to the “Viewer’s Guide”. They will also share their video using the #MADPD Hashtag on Twitter. View the video, engage in a Twitter chat with the presenter, ask questions, share your own ideas and learn.

Continue learning and sharing all weekend long, referring to the “MADPD Viewer’s Guide”while following along and engaging in conversation on Twitter using #MADPD.

Sessions run every half hour each day starting at 8 am through to 9 pm — that makes for 25 x 2 –> 50 different learning opportunities over one weekend! Check out the Viewer’s Guide and get ready to engage this weekend.

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#OTT20: Online Teaching Tuesday

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The Office of Open Learning, University of Windsor is hosting a series of weekly online pedagogy drop-in sessions on Tuesday afternoons from 3:15 pm to 4:00 pm. The #OTT20 Online Teaching Tuesday series is a continuing component of their online learning in a hurry: K12 and higher education offerings.

Educators are invited to register and drop in. The events are scheduled for April 28, May 5th, May 12th, May 19th, and May 26th and visible on our Events page.

Kudos to Bonnie Stewart, Dave Cormier, and Nick Baker in supporting this excellent opportunity for Ontario educators.

Be sure to also check out the 3 recordings from earlier this month, Webinar Series to Help Teachers with Online Lessons.

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