Tuesday 15 August 2017

Happy Fifth Anniversary!

Five years ago this fall, we hosted our very first Manitoulin IGNITEd session in Little Current on Design Thinking and Makerspaces. Since then, we've hosted over 90 individual participants (many joining us on more than one occasion) to learn about new and exciting topics in the field of education. Not bad for a little island in rural Ontario :)

As part of the registration for each session, we poll our participants to see what they would like to be learning about, and then building our schedule from their input. Though we try to pick dates in advance, we never know from one session to the next what we'll be learning about. We love the diversity of topics that this brings!

This past school year, we explored:


We also expanded our sessions to include a simultaneous presentation in both M'Chigeeng and Sudbury, and we look forward to building on these connections throughout the upcoming year.

As we get ready to jump back into a new school year, we're already getting ready for our first fall session on student mental well-being, with details ready to publish soon. Until then, be sure to check out the posters and archives above, as well as our Twitter hashtag #2017IGNITEd. As usual, let us know what you'd be interested in learning about by commenting here on the blog, or on Twitter at @ManIGNITEd. 

Best of luck with the new school year! We look forward to seeing you at one of our sessions.