Educators everywhere should thank Jeff Pulver (@Jeffpulver), organizer of the 140 Conferences for his commitment to seeing education have a strong voice at these conferences. Jeff Pulver demonstrated his enthusiasm for educators by accepting Parentella’s education panel for the Detroit 140 Conference, which took place yesterday, October 20th.
Real-Time Communication and Education Reform Panel
These were the amazing educators who spoke passionately about Real-Time Communication and Education Transformation.
Linda Clinton (@Linda704) – Literacy Coach for East Detroit Public Schools and doctoral candidate at Oakland University, Michigan
David Britten (@colonelb) – K-12 Superintendent in Grand Rapids, Michigan, retired Army officer
Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) – High School English teacher and education blogger
Watch the video
Here’s the video of the panel discussion in case you missed it. The panel starts with introductions then the panelists answer questions.
140 Conference Detroit Education Panel from Shelly Terrell on Vimeo.
Here were some of the highlights:
- Loved when Nick tweeted his student in the middle of the presentation and shared the student’s tweets with the audience!
- David mentions how his email accidentally was shared with the 6th graders resulting in over 100 emails!
- Linda mentions how as a doctoral candidate she uses Twitter for instant research so that she doesn’t have to email her professor at 12am.
- One conference participant commented on Twitter that she wished her son had a teacher like Nick!
Some of the points made:
“Twitter allows us to hear speakers in real time we never had an opportunity to” ~ Linda
“The teacher down the hall is now teachers all across the world with Twitter”~ Nick
“Twitter has brought our district staff into the conversation”~ David
“I tweet the homework to students” ~ Nick
“I use Twitter to reach out to other Superintendents across the country” ~ David
“With Twitter I’ve been able to share resources with teachers” ~ Linda
Stay tuned for more updates from the education panels organized by Parentella.
Our mission at Parentella is to continue to give educators and parents a venue to communicate and collaborate with each other in order to improve learning for all students. As part of this mission, we are happy to continue organizing education panels for several conferences throughout the year and thank all participants. If you have a conference in your city that accepts education and parent panels, please let us know and we’ll try to organize a panel!
