5 #GR8Finds #ThisWeek at #KSUncon and #KSEdTech Conference 06.14.15

Today's #KSuncon group via @elliemellie. Mahalo for an amazing day! #KSEdTech pic.twitter.com/gzXeCjNt4t

— KS EdTech (@ksedtech) June 9, 2015

I learned A LOT at the 2015 Kamehameha EdTech Conference and the #KSUncon! Reconnected with a lot of cool Hawaii educators, and met a few new cool ones. It was awesome!

Here are 5 #GR8Finds to report:

1. Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree from GoodWill. A plethora of tutorials that are easy to follow. H/T +Tomoko Yokooji. 

2. Wonderopolis. H/T Rachelle Galang. Learning can be fun!

Check out @Wonderopolis for #geniushour @mauilibrarian2 #ksuncon #colchat

— Rachelle Galang (@MissGalang) June 9, 2015

3. I already blogged about science teacher Stephen Ritz's keynote → Over-the-Top KeyNote by an Over-the-Top Teacher. So inspiring!

Check out this Green Bronx Machine teaser.





4. We LAUGHED throughout Destin Sandlin's keynote, 

Competition for manliness @smartereveryday #ksedtech pic.twitter.com/pavUclu0bI

— Linda Lindsay (@mauilibrarian2) June 10, 2015

with Destin's serious charge to "See the World Differently". 

I subscribed to his +SmarterEveryDay YouTube Channel that's putting his kids through college -- a great success story!

Here's the Backwards Bicycle Video that went viral.



5. I learned how to make a Scribblebot at +Michelle Carlson Colte and +Rachel Armstrong's "Become a Maker" session. Check out their presentation here.  
My Scribblebot 

was definitely not as good as 

Celeste's Scribblebot ☺

See instructions to make your own Scribble Machine from Instructables here.

Mahalo again to the @KSEdTech folks who planned Hana Pono and #KSUncon! 

                                          

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Over-the-Top Keynote by an Over-the-Top Teacher: Stephen Ritz at #KSEdTech

The Kamehameha EdTech Conference folks ALWAYS find the best keynote speakers. Mahalo!

This year's Hana Pono Conference started off totally over the top, with science teacher extraordinaire Stephen Ritz.

Learn all about Stephen's amazing story at stevenritz.com

Read about his nomination for the $1 Million Worldwide Teaching Prize (he got to meet Pope Francis!).

Watch his two TedTalks: 

•Green Bronx Machine -- growing our way into a new economy: Stephen Ritz at TEDxManhattan 

•A Teacher growing green in the South Bronx

Like the Green Bronx Machine Facebook Page and follow @greenBXmachine on Twitter.

Meet Stephen Ritz and Green Bronx Machine:

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The Storify embedded below (50+ tweets) will help you understand why so many of us who attended Stephen's keynote are inspired to think and act. (See the original story at Storify here.)

Mahalo to the tweeters who documented some of Stephen's thoughts. There was so much, so fast, so heartful, so thrilling, so inspiring!

I'll be spending a lot more time in my little garden this summer, pondering Stephen's challenge to change the world: "Put a seed in the ground. It's that simple." 

How would this work in my garden, my life, at my school, and on my island? I'll be thinking about it a lot. ... And yes, I will come up with a plan!

Mahalo Stephen! You are a gift to us all.

¡Si se puede! (Green Bronx Machine motto)

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