What is Edcamp Vancouver?

We have a vision for what professional development can look like. This vision is driven by a movement which started in the United States and could transform professional development for teachers.

We would like to take the best part of conferences, which in our opinion are the conversations between the attendees, and turn these into the focus of the conference. We will still have presentations but the process for setting up who presents will be more democratic and the presentations will be more interactive than a typical conference. We would like everyone to be expected to share what they know. We would like to run a conference for everyone interested in education.

Update: Please check out our FAQ if you have any other questions.

Our conference will include students, parents, teachers, administrators, professors, graduate students, media, and anyone who feels they have something to share about education in today's world.

The theme for this year is Creating Connections so this is not a technology conference, or a teacher conference, it is a conference about creating connections in education.

Conference date: April 16th, 2011
Time: 9am to 4pm
Location: John Oliver School

If you would like to register for this conference, go to this page.

If you would like to volunteer to help out a bit on the day of the event, sign up for the website and post a bit about yourself in our volunteer forums, and let us know what you would like to do.

You can also download this poster (which is in PDF format) and post it at your school, or at your local library, or in your workplace to help promote Edcamp Vancouver to a wider audience.