😱 Ditch Summit starts on Monday!

Wow, can you believe it? The Ditch Summit is one week away!

It’s our free online conference for teachers we offer every year — running Dec. 11 to Jan. 5.

IN THIS EMAIL:

• 👀 What to expect in the Ditch Summit

• 🎁 How to win prizes for sharing the summit

• 🎙 This year’s featured speakers and spotlight sponsors

👀 What to expect in the Ditch Summit

If you’ve never participated in the Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit, here’s what you need to know …

1. THE START: It opens next Monday. That’s when you’ll first be able to access video presentations and their resources.

2. THE EMAILS: We send out EVERYTHING for the summit via email. I send emails in the mornings (U.S. Eastern time) during the summit. I write each email myself, and I do my best to get them out early, but sometimes — especially when my family is on winter break — it takes longer than I’d like!

3. NEW SESSIONS: Each weekday for the first two weeks, I’ll email you links to the new presentations made available that day — one featured speaker presentation and one spotlight sponsor session.

4. PREVIOUS SESSIONS: From the moment the summit opens until it closes, all previous years’ sessions will be available to watch. There are more than 80 of them!

5. SPEAKER PAGE: When you click a link to watch a video presentation, you’ll be taken to the speaker page. There, you’ll find links to lots of resources and information about that presenter.

6. VIDEO LIBRARY: We also have the “Video Library” page. It’s a main page that has links to ALL of our video presentations — new featured speakers, new spotlight sponsors, and all previous years’ sessions.

7. PD CERTIFICATES: For ALL of our sessions, you can generate a certificate of completion for professional development credit for your school/district.

8. NOTES: Each session also has a downloadable notes page, complete with important points and links to session resources. You can download and keep these forever!

9. ON-DEMAND: None of our sessions are live streamed. Everything is pre-recorded and available on-demand. That way, we don’t leave out anyone in any time zone.

10. THE END: The summit ends at the end of the day on Friday, Jan. 5. After that, all of the summit resources (videos, certificates, etc.) will become unavailable until the summit opens again next December.

🎁 How to win prizes for sharing the summit

You can win prizes for sharing the Ditch Summit with others!

Here’s how you can participate …

1. In the box below, you’ll find your referral information with your unique referral link. 

2. Use the “Click to Share” button to copy your referral link.

3. Go share your link far and wide! Every time someone clicks your link and signs up for the summit, you’ll get a referral.

4. The more referrals you get, the more prizes you can earn. (Use the “Click to Share” button to check your progress toward prizes.)

• 5 referrals gets you a DTT sticker pack.

• 10 referrals gets you a DTT online course for free.

• 20 referrals gets you a t-shirt/tote bag from our merch store.

• 40 referrals gets you a hoodie from our merch store.

Easiest way to get referrals? Email your friends and colleagues to encourage them to register. You can copy/paste the text from this document for your email. Share on social media, too!

👀🎙 This year’s featured speakers and spotlight sponsors

Each year, I keep my eyes and ears open all year long for Ditch Summit speakers. (I’m pretty picky about who I invite to be a featured speaker.)

Here are this year’s speakers:

• Joe and Kristin Merrill (Teachers, Speakers, Creators, Authors -- The InterACTIVE Class)

• CJ Reynolds (Level Up Your Learners / Real Rap with Reynolds)

• Fely García López (Educator Innovation Lead -- Microsoft Flip)

• Andre Daughty (Speaker, Educator, Creator)

• Matt Miller (Educator, Author, Speaker, Podcaster -- Ditch That Textbook)

• Karly Moura (Blog and Social Media Editor -- Ditch That Textbook)

• Yaritza Villalba (CEO -- McKenzie’s Adventures LLC)

• Julie Smith (Professor -- Webster University)

This year, we’ll have multiple featured speaker sessions about artificial intelligence, project-based learning, and teaching with technology.

Over the last few years, we’ve also included Spotlight Sponsor Sessions.

We invite sponsors from some of our favorite edtech tools and services to participate in the Ditch Summit. In these quick 30-minute sessions, they share clever ways to use their tech tools, practical teaching ideas, and classroom strategies.

They’re presentations — not product pitches — so you’ll come away from each one with something practical.

Oh, and some of them like to give away special bonuses for people who watch … so be on the lookout!

👋 See you Monday!

I can’t wait to open the summit to you on Monday!

I hope you love the summit. It’s a labor of love every year, and I hope it supports you in the important work you’re doing in your class / your school / your district.

Take care …

Matt Miller
Creator, Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit
Founder, Ditch That Textbook
Educator, Author, Speaker, Podcaster
[email protected]