Little Miss Geek

I am in shock and awe with the participation by our D62 staff in Digital Learning Day! Originally when we were planning how we would celebrate we in our district we had a whole slew of ideas, but decided since it was the first year we would be participating to start small. We planned a twitter prompt for the day on our then sparsely used #62learns hashtag. I'll let the numbers speak for themselves in this beautiful graphic Jennie put together... Can you believe it 94% of the certified staff participated... when there was less than 20% previously participating in the hashtag. Amazing! I look forward to watching this community grow together and also see the possibilities, connections, and learning that twitter makes possible! Can't wait to see everyone's response to next weeks prompt!

I spend a lot of my time and energy volunteering in different roles for the Illinois Computing Educators organization. Attending the ICE Conference and volunteering for the organization has helped me to grow as a professional in so many ways it's almost too hard to separate it from everything else. One of the things that ICE has been talking about doing for awhile now is hosting a twitter chat to engage it's members. After lots of conversations and planning the ICE Professional Development team,  +Mike McGowan  and  +Nicole Zumpano , and the ICE Communications team,  +Jennifer Smith ,  +Carrie Baughcum , and myself, along with the Executive Director of ICE,  +Margaret Johnson , and  +Paul Solarz  finally got the ICE twitter chats ball rolling. We marketed through social media and email campaigns working hard to get the word out. Our first #ICEilchat took place on September 25th, and the chat was centered around being a connected educator. W...