BYOD: A Blessing or a Curse in Today's K-12 Instructional Environment?
Wednesday February 22, 2012 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is the new mantra for today's budget-strapped K-12 IT and Instructional officers, however, it comes with several potential surprises that can overwhelm a school district. Schools must have three key ingredients for a successful BYOD strategy: a solid plan to separate key assets from certain user groups; pedagogy re-training; and robust and reliable wireless connectivity that is able to support 3x to 4x Wi-Fi devices per user.
Find out how you can attain your BYOD goals, using these key factors, in this webinar.
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Tips for Building your STEM Program
Thursday December 8, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
With the current emphasis on STEM education, it is essential for educators to provide an engaging learning environment to get, and keep, students interested in the scientific learning process – both in and out of the classroom. Join us to hear from some of Vernier’s 30th anniversary technology grant winners as they share their innovative STEM initiatives that bring inquiry-based learning to the classroom and tips- for navigating the grant process.
All About BYOD & Wireless
Tuesday December 6, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Will your wireless network handle the wave of Wi-Fi enabled PDAs, smartphones, tablets, eReaders that students, faculty and administrators will be surely bringing onto your campuses? Will you have to hire more support staff or can you fight the tide by outright refusal to provide access to bring your own devices (BYOD)? Maybe there's a better way. Join this webinar to learn what your wireless network should be able to support and to learn how to securely provide access without overwhelming your support staff.
Technology Transforms the Autism Classroom
Tuesday November 29, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
As the rate of children being diagnosed with autism continues to climb, the challenges inherent in meeting the individual needs of each child become more difficult. Educators find themselves getting squeezed tighter and more painfully between a rock (mandates) and a hard place (dwindling resources). Technology plays an essential role in engagement, education, and opening doors to a wider world of experiences for children on the Autism Spectrum. Join us as we discuss how technology can transform the autism classroom. A look at research, hardware, software, apps and more as we shape the future through innovative technology for the child with autism.
Best Practices for Managing School Systems
Tuesday November 15, 2011 | 11 am PST / 2 pm EST
Schools and districts face unique IT systems management challenges. In these times of tight budgets, they also often require a very lean operating environment. The goal is to optimize school IT infrastructure management in order to save time and money. The question is how. In this Webinar you’ll learn how the Santa Clara Unified School District in California - a district with a 14,000 student network with 7,500 IT assets spread across 24 schools - transformed its IT management.
Tuesday November 1, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
The concept of "Flipping the Classroom," which involves having students learn independently from video-based lessons and do their “homework” in school with the teacher’s help, is gaining popularity -- and a successful track record. It looks different in different classrooms and is also known as inverted learning. The practice has a wide variety of uses that are transforming student learning. This Webinar will feature the two educators who coined the term and representatives from two award-winning districts that have taken the concept and made it work well for their schools. You’ll learn exactly what a Flipped Classroom is, why it works, how to do it, and where it is in practice today.
Building a Successful Digital Learning Program
Thursday October 27, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
This webinar will focus on building the support technology to make
digital learning initiatives work, financing the program and evaluating the results. Learn what
the research tells us and hear from districts that have shown success to make their digital learning programs work efficiently and effectively. They will also discuss how they got to this point and where they intend to take their strategy in the future. The last in a new webinar series "Technology, Learning and Change."
BYOD or School-Supplied? The pros and cons of both mobile learning programs
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 | 10 am PST / 1 pm EST
Mobile learning is on the rise! Join us as we explore the pros and cons of BYOD programs and school-supplied device deployments. Two districts will share their stories, their lessons learned, and their best practices. Not sure what's right for you? After the presentation, you'll be able to have your questions answered!
Get Interactive in Your Classroom!
Tuesday, October 13, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Did you know that you can easily transform your classroom’s standard whiteboard or even its walls into an interactive whiteboard? With technology from Sony and Luidia teachers and students can interact in new and exciting ways with a fully functional interactive board created from an existing classroom surface!
Chromebook Classrooms
Wednesday October 12, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Chromebooks for Education gives students, teachers, and administrators a solution for fast, intuitive, and easy-to-manage computing. With a central web-based management console for all of your Chromebooks, automatic maintenance and upgrades, and an 8 second boot-up time, Chromebooks for Education are at home in the classroom (and beyond). This webinar will discuss everything you need to know to set up a Chromebook classroom in your school – from the product and its benefits to technical requirements and pricing. You'll hear from the Chromebooks team at Google and educators currently using Chromebooks with students.
How Reading Online Improves Learning
Tuesday October 4, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Web-based learning provides the individualized instruction to meet each child's learning progress. In this Webinar, you will learn how adaptive online reading Instruction improves comprehension scores in grades 3-5. You'll hear from the program developer and an educator whose students use these materials to understand what they read and improve their scores.
Three Key Elements to Effective Tech Use: Digital Content, Professional Development & Assessment
Tuesday September 27, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Part two of the "Technology, Learning and Change" webinar series features how these three elements can transform teaching and learning. This webinar will focus on using digital content and web-based tools, providing effective professional development, and assessing the impact of change. Leaders from districts that have shown success will discuss how they got to this point and where they intend to take their strategy in the future.
How To Plan, Lead and Manage a Comprehensive Digital Learning Program
Thursday September 15, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Implementing a comprehensive digital learning program means advance planning that is tied to a district’s organization, culture, and personnel. To achieve goals for teaching and learning, districts need transformational leaders who can inspire and manage staff, students, school boards, and others through the process of change. It also requires restructuring classrooms so they become student-centered digital learning environments. When the process is implemented carefully, the result is a transformation in learning and student and school improvement. This webinar will focus on how to plan; how to empower effective leadership, and how to manage change. Leaders from districts that have shown success will discuss how they got to this point and where they intend to take their strategies in the future.
The first in a new webinar series "Technology, Learning and Change."
Bring Your Own Device: More Tools, Less Money, Better Security
Thursday July 21, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
With increasing demands for greater access to technology and school budgets strained to the limit, many districts turn to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy. Classroom technologies now include smartphones, tablets, handheld game machines and more. The biggest issue in using these outside devices is keeping students and data safe online. This webinar will provide information on how districts are managing student and staff devices on their networks, how they are providing cost effective support, and how they make sure that all of their systems are secure both on and off site.
4 Best Practices for IT Management
Wednesday, April 20 | 11 am PST / 2 pm EST
As an IT Director, Chris Stroupe from the KIPP: Houston schools knows
all about effective systems management. He provides services for 19
sites, 1200 fulltime employees and over 6000 students. But how does he
manage such an expansive, complex system and deal with the inevitable
glitches? Without a cohesive best practice approach, proactive IT
management, and specifically patch management, is an elusive goal. In
this webinar, participants will learn 4 best practices – and one bonus
item – for effective IT management, including: Discovering and assessing
the environment; Identifying and testing; Evaluating and planning; and
Deploying and remediating the exceptions
"Secrets"
of High-Quality Interactive Learning Content
Wednesday, March 23 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST
Interactive lesson planning is much like what we were taught when we
first learned how to write lesson plans. The only difference is that now
we have the power of interactivity to incorporate into our lesson
design. It opens the realm of possibilities to tap into every student’s
unique learning style, otherwise known as differentiation. Planning is
not arbitrary but skillful, with deliberate decisions being made every
step of the way. The first part of this webinar will discuss the primary
features of high-quality interactive lessons, including student-focused
learning objectives that are observable and measureable, assessment
that is appropriate to the objectives, and giving the learner numerous
opportunities to practice the skill that we want them to be able to
apply. The second part of this webinar will show examples of real
lessons that illustrate these principles.
The What and How of
Cloud Computing and 24-7 Learning
Tuesday, March 22 | 1 pm
PST / 4 pm EST
All schools are struggling with how to provide a sustainable and
affordable instructional technology program for students and teachers. A
new solution that districts are using successfully is cloud computing.
This webinar will demystify cloud computing and describe how it can
help you to deliver on the promise of 1 to 1 using any device anywhere.
You will learn about one school district's journey towards cloud
computing, the research they did, the requirements list they developed,
and the choices they made.
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