Environmental Education Twitter Chats #EnviroEd
Leave a commentAugust 1, 2013 by David
Rob Ridley is a member of Beyond Our Classroom. He is also the Outdoor Field Centres Coordinator for the Peel District School Board. Rob, Sarah Lowes and Paul Kreba have demonstrated exemplary professional learning leadership on Twitter. Since June 26, 2013, Rob Ridley (@RangerRidley), Sarah Lowes (@sarlowes) and Paul Kreba (@PaulKelba) have led a weekly Twitter chat for those interested in discussing best practices in environmental education and outdoor play. Learn more about Rob Ridley’s behind the scenes leadership for our #EnviroEd Twitter Chats on his blog “Epiphanies in Environmental Education“.
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You are invited to join us for our next #EnviroEd chat this Wednesday night from 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EST. Send your topic ideas to @RangerRidley before this Saturday. Then vote for your favourite topic. We recommend you follow these people on Twitter to learn more about environmental education and taking children and teens outdoors.
Past #EnviroEd Twitter Chat Topics
View current tweets about #EnviroEd via Tagboard.com. Read past highlights from #EnviroEd chats curated on Storify by David Spencer (@DavidSpencerEdu). To view, click on the chat topic below.
- Chat #1 on June 26, 2013 – How can EnviroEd Community work like Ecological Community as connected individuals?
- Chat #2 on July 2, 2013 – The Role of Free Play in Environmental Education
- Chat #3 on July 10, 2013 – Free Play/Discovery for all Grades
- Chat #4 on July 17, 2013 – Outing Parents – Getting Parents Onside Outside
- Chat #5 on July 24, 2013 – Teaching Outdoors with a Rich, Cultural Diversity in Your Students
- Chat #6 on July 31, 2013 – What does a “Sense of Place” mean to you?
- Chat #7 on August 7, 2013 – What should be in every classroom teacher’s #EnviroEd backpack?
- Chat #8 on August 14, 2013 – Ways to get outside during the first week of school.
- Chat #9 on August 21, 2013 – Available and wishful thinking professional development #PD for #EnviroEd.
- Chat #10 on August 28, 2013 – What do we look for when trying to instill a Sense of Wonder?
- Chat #11 on September 4, 2013 – New Year’s Resolutions for EnviroEd in your classroom and how your PLN can keep you true.
- Chat #12 on September 11, 2013 – “Bring Your Own Topic” (BYOT) night
- Chat #13 on September 18, 2013 – Ensuring a continued passion in students from year to year.
- Chat #14 on September 25, 2013 – Modelling #EnviroEd practices & concepts for our students.
- Chat #15 on October 2, 2013 – Teaching #EnviroEd using current events
- Chat #16 on October 9, 2013 – The Power of Student Journals in Environmental Lessons
- Chat #17 on October 16, 2013 – Prebriefing & debriefing outdoor experiences.
- Chat #18 on October 23, 2013 – Creating student collaboration on EnviroEd through social media.
- Chat #19 on October 30, 2013 – Language Arts Outdoors
- Chat #20 on November 6, 2013 – Inclement Weather Learning
- Chat #21 on November 13, 2013 – Changing habits for greater #sustainability. What’s stopping us?
- Chat #22 on November 20, 2013 – Planning, Creating & Constant Use of Schoolyard Green Space
- Chat #23 on November 27, 2013 – 4 pillars of Eco-Literacy: Knowledge of, Appreciation of, Feelings for & Action for Earth
- Chat #24 on December 4, 2013 – S’know what you are teaching:Winter Outdoors
- PEECE 2013 – Peel Environmental EdCamp for Educators at David Suzuki Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario Canada held December 10, 2013
- Chat #25 on December 11, 2013 – Global Networking, Team Teaching #EnviroEd from Different Locales
- Chat #26 on January 8, 2014 – Creating a Winter Resource Pack for Your Class
- Chat #27 on January 15, 2014 – Citizen Science Curriculum Enhancer & Behaviour Changer
- Chat #28 on January 22, 2014 – Influence of Outdoor Recreational Education
- Chat #29 on January 29, 2014 – Classroom, Schoolyard & Community Gardens
- Chat #30 on February 5, 2014 – Solar Powered Math Lessons
- Chat #31 on February 12, 2014 – Climate Change, Curriculum, Content & Context
- Chat #32 on February 19, 2014 – Creating student collaboration on #EnviroEd through social media.
- View more current Twitter Chats about #EnviroEd here.
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