Nearly 60 educators joined us for EdCampMidMN 5.0 in Princeton, MN. Princeton Public School’s singing superintendent kicked our day off with a singalong as attendees enjoyed coffee donated by Jules Cafe and donuts donated by Kwik Trip. After two rounds of sessions attendees joined back together for lunch from the PIzza Barn and conversations. We had two more rounds of sessions while enjoying snacks from Benetech! Our day closed with prizes in the main rooms with top prizes like a free registration to the Impact Education Conference and Transforming Learning Summit and hands-on tools like Makey Makey! The day wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of our sponsors like CMLE!

Here is what attendees are saying about EdCampMidMN 5.0:

“What did you enjoy most about EdCampMidMN 5.0?”

• Networking with other professionals and the content of the sessions.
• I enjoyed the sessions that were available to attend. I got something from each one that I feel I can take back to the classroom.
• I love connecting with other teachers and gaining new ideas
• I came without anyyyyyone.. I got to connect with new people because I forced myself to spend the time learning with teachers I didn’t know before today!
• Hearing ideas from other excited teachers – inspired creativity.
• I enjoyed the variety of sessions and the small groups really made for in-depth discussions. I also appreciate having access to the notes from the sessions that I couldn’t attend.

“What great ideas or take aways did you walk away with today?”

• I learned more about various resources that I can check into. It helped to fill in some of the blanks on what I didn’t know that I didn’t know about.
• Starting to think about incorporating robotics into my classroom in the subjects I teach.
• I like being able to play with tech in the Maker Space.
• From the Digital Citizenship I learned about other teacher and school policies for phone use in the classroom. It was a great discussion and reminder that we need to help kids learn to use their phone as a tool and not misuse it. Also teach them the skills about when and when not to be on your screen.
• Picked up new ideas for motivating students using different apps and sites and lastly talked to a teacher outside of a regular session who showed me how to use HP View to create a virtual museum.

Check out our notes documents to dig into topics that were shared: