A Summer to Make, Play & Connect

Date: May 8, 2014

Summary: Summer means vacation for some, but for many others, it marks a time of making, playing, and connecting. Beginning this June, educators around the country and the world will be taking part in a Summer to Make, Play & Connect, powered by Educator Innovator and the Mozilla Foundation's Maker Party 2014. Listen to this episode to learn more about this summer campaign and the many opportunities being offered to all educators.

Excerpt from Show

Joe Dillon, of the Denver Writing Project, on why Writing Project educators should be interested in Making Learning Connected (#clmooc):

We had our first go at this MOOC last summer and what really emerged was, we heard from all kinds of benefits to being in the MOOC. Some, for example, were really reflecting on how, by engaging with the networked tools that we used to pull off this Massive Open Online Collaboration, they felt like they were gaining traction with new tools to use educational technology in their classroom. Other folks were simply interested in learning more from a broad base of National Writing Project teachers."

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Related Resources Discussed on the Show

• Summer to Make, Play & Connect
• Educator Innovator
• Maker Party 2014
• "Glowing reports from Maker Party 2013"
• Webmaker
• Making Learning Connected 2014
• Thinking Through My Lens
• Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom
• Hack Your Notebook Day
• 21st Century Notebooking
• Paper Circuitry: Hack Your Notebook and Illuminate Your Thinking
• NEXMAP Blog
• Making Learning Connected on G+
• What Is Connected Learning?
• Digital Is
• Equity and Learning in the 21st Century Classroom
• Validating Fun: Connected Learning