From edWeb.net:
Join us on Tuesday June 10 at 5 p.m. Eastern for Transitioning
From College to Classroom Using Co-Teaching Programs with Shannon Holden,
assistant principal of Republic Middle School in Missouri. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the New Teacher Help community at www.edweb.net/newteacherhelp.
Join us on Wednesday, June 11 at 4 p.m. Eastern for Bite-Sized
Narratives: The Impact of Mobile Devices on Learning and Communication with
Shelly Sanchez Terrell, teacher trainer, instructional designer, and author. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Mobile Learning Explorations community at www.edweb.net/mobilelearning.
From Education Week:
The
Power of Peer Groups and Posses in College Success
The
transition from high school to college can be daunting, academically, socially,
and emotionally - and often especially so for students from minority groups who
aren't well represented on many college campuses.
The Posse
Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in New York that gives
scholarships to diverse groups of students with strong leadership skills and
sends them to selective colleges in "possess" of 10. The idea is that
the scholars can bond before they ever go to campus and then can provide
support to one another throughout their college years. The approach seems to
work: While typical college graduation rates hover around 57 percent, about 90
percent of Posse scholars finish in four years.
Join
Education Week for this webinar featuring the founder of Posse and a professor
who came up with the idea of a STEM posse for students pursuing careers in
science-related careers.
Underwriting
for the content of this webinar has been provided by The Atlantic
Philanthropies, NoVo Foundation, The Raikes Foundation, and The California
Endowment.
Guests:
Deborah
Bial,
founder and president, The Posse Foundation.
Irving
Epstein,
Henry F. Fischbach professor of chemistry and senior research advisor to the
provost, Brandeis University
This
webinar will be moderated by Caralee Adams, contributing writer, Education Week
Registernow for this free live webinar.
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From edWeb. net:
Join us on Thursday, May 29 at 4 p.m. Eastern for Defeating the
Culture of Bullying in an Age of Social Media with Emily Bazelon, senior editor
at Slate, contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and Truman Capote
Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale Law School. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Digital Citizenship community at www.edweb.net/digitalcitizenship.
Join us on Tuesday, June 3 at 4 p.m. Eastern for
Built for Today's Learners: How To Design an Engaging Learning Environment for
Millennials with Dwight Carter, principal, Gahanna Lincoln High School in
Gahanna, Ohio. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Leadership 3.0 community at www.edweb.net/leadership.
From AbleNet:
Wednesday, 05/28/2014
AAC Treatment and
Data Collection
Many of the applications and software programs currently utilized for
communication highlight and/or combine numerous linguistic features. But, what
works optimally for your student/client/patient: common or core vocabulary
(icons and/or text); spelling (letter-by-letter and/or with abbreviations); OR
combinations of character/word/phrase and/or grammar prediction, which is
static or dynamic and can be based on factors such as frequency or recency?
• Time: 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM CDT
• Presenter: Patricia R. Ourand, MS, CCC-SLP
• Level: Beginner
From Education Week:
Boston
Public Schools Goes Google With Chromebooks and Google Apps
In this webinar,
you'll hear directly from Sean McMahon, network security manager for Boston
Public Schools (BPS). Sean will discuss how the district, in conjunction with
the city of Boston, decided to go Google. BPS provides all 57,000 students in
their K12 district with Google Apps for Education accounts, as well as 10,000
Chromebooks. The district is focused on closing the opportunity and achievement
gaps for all their students and preparing them for academic and future career
success. And with Chromebooks and Google Apps, BPS found an affordable and easy
solution to do just that.
Learn
about BPS' decision to move to a cloud-based platform with Google Chromebooks.
The Google Admin Console allows the lean IT staff to deploy and manage all
10,000 devices in the 70 Boston schools from a central location, which has
helped contribute to a successful roll-out of PARCC TestNav assessments this
year.
Guest:
Sean
McMahon,
network security manager, Boston Public Schools
This
webinar will be moderated by John Allen, Google for Education Team
Registernow for this free live webinar.
