
About ECOOcamp
The ECOOcamp model meets in the middle between a grass-roots organized single-day EdCamp and a full-fledged multi-day conference. The first three ECOOcamps took place on Saturdays, coordinated by ECOO and representatives from local school boards. Prior to the 2019-20 year, three ECOOcamps had been undertaken.
With the arrival of COVID in 2020, we moved to a virtual model, hosting our very first online virtual conference event, ECOOcamp Ontario 2020, featuring over 100 sessions, vendor playgrounds, keynotes, door prizes, and exceptional learning. This successful event led to our follow-up ECOO Support Series, our virtual vBIT21 conferences in February and November, and a followup ECOOcamp Ontario 2021.
With the return to opportunities for face-to-face gatherings, ECOOcamp23 will offer:
- ECOOcamp Ottawa – Tinker, Talk, Transform unconference event on August 17 in Ottawa, Ontario, with the support of CodeToLearn.org

Previous Events
- ECOOcamp Ottawa 2023 – Tinker, Talk, Transform, August 17, 2023.
- ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 – August 18-19, 2021 (online conference)
- ECOOcamp Ontario 2020 – August 25-27, 2020 (online conference)
- ECOOcamp Peterborough 2019 – August 27th, 2019
- ECOOcamp Owen Sound 2019 – May 4th, 2019
- ECOOcamp Owen Sound 2018 – April 14th, 2018
ECOOcamp Ontario 2022
As a result of discussions held on the evening of Monday, July 25th, 2022 at the ECOOcamp Ontario 2022 Committee meeting, we made the very difficult decision to cancel our event for August 23-25. The committee looked at options of continuing the event as planned or reducing the event to a single day, but numerous factors contributed to the decision to cancel the event until conditions are more favourable.
We are very conscious of the toll that the last two years have extracted from educators, and we seek to honour the time invested by all participants. We appreciate your understanding and support in making this decision.
We wish to thank the educators who had submitted session proposals (we see you!), the sponsors who had committed to supporting the event, the keynote speakers and panelists we had lined up, and the educators who had registered. The ECOO Board of Directors also wish to express their sincere thanks to the many hours of planning time invested by the members of the ECOOcamp Ontario 2022 Committee in preparation for the event. We especially wish to recognize the efforts of Melissa Bogaert, our Event Chair, for her dedicated leadership, energy, and organization through the winter, spring, and summer, as she has worked in coordinating our Support Series events and our ECOOcamp planning.
We wish you all a very restful and enjoyable summer, and look forward to connecting with you in the fall.
ECOO Board of Directors
Educational Computing Organization of Ontario
ECOOcamp Ontario 2021
ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 was our fifth #ECOOcamp professional development event. ECOOcamp Ontario 2021 took place on August 18th and 19th, again in a virtual format, and brought together educators, representatives from education technology companies and education not-for-profit organizations. The event featured dozens of sessions, keynotes, vendor playgrounds, lunch ‘n’ learn events, and community discussion opportunities. The interest and enthusiasm of the presenters and attendees only served to prove the value of such a valuable learning opportunity after the summer break and in preparation for September.
If you were not able to attend but would like to access the session recordings and resources, you can browse the session descriptions.
Access to the collection of recordings is open to all current ECOO Active Members. (Not a member? Join ECOO!)
ECOOcamp Ontario 2020
ECOOcamp Ontario 2020 was our fourth #ECOOcamp, and our very first completely virtual professional development event.
A motion at the November 2019 board meeting had put plans in place to undertake 5 regional ECOOcamp events around Ontario in the 2019-20 term, but the arrival of the pandemic in March 2020 put a halt to all planning for face-to-face events, including our annual Bring IT, Together conference. As a result, representatives from a number of intended sites worked with ECOO to produce ECOOcamp Ontario, one large, collaborative, online, province-wide conference that took place in August, 2020.
As we looked towards the 2020-2021 school year, the only guarantee that we had was that it would be different. We had an opportunity to think about ways in which we could harness the power of educational technology to nurture change in our own learning and well-being, and that of our students.
The August, 2020 province-wide ECOOcamp Ontario offered virtual professional learning designed and delivered for educators by educators, and provided opportunities to build professional learning networks. Our role as educators in our schools and communities charged us with a critical responsibility to help support Ontario’s children and families as the need to respond to the reality of remote teaching and learning emerged. ECOOcamp Ontario 2020 was one way in which Ontario educators rose to meet this challenge.
If you were not able to attend but would like to access the session recordings and resources, you can browse the session descriptions.
Access to the collection of recordings is open to all current ECOO Active Members. (Not a member? Join ECOO!)