From edWeb,net:
Join us on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 5 p.m. Eastern for Using
Smartphones in the Classroom with Shannon Holden, assistant principal at
Republic Middle School in Missouri. Learnmore and pre-register. Join the TechTools for the Classroom community at www.edweb.net/techtools.
From Closing the Gap and texthelp:
Getting it Right: Using AT
Accommodations to Assist with PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessments
60 MINUTES
Thursday, September 4, 2014
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Central Daylight Time
The ability to use Assistive
Technology accommodations on PARCC, Smarter Balanced, and other assessments
offer many opportunities to students who qualify. In this webinar, we will
discuss which accommodations are appropriate for testing and how to best prepare
for the assessment. We will share some of the most commonly used accommodations
and specific strategies to help ensure students are prepared to use them. In
addition, specific accommodations, including text to speech, word prediction,
highlighter strategies and more, will be demonstrated using Read&Write
Gold. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how students can
use accommodations to help increase achievement.
PRESENTER:
Kimberly Nix and Jason Carroll, Texthelp, Inc.
Participants
must register to receive confirmation and login instructions.
Participation
in this free, sponsored webinar is limited to the first 100 log-ins.
From Education Week:
Personalizing
Math Through Technology and Differentiated Instruction
Facing more
rigorous math standards and expectations, schools are exploring new avenues to
engage students in numeracy and address diverse learning needs. Silvestre
Arcos, an award-winning math instructional leader, has found that resourceful
use of technology can help teachers personalize instruction so that
"students at every level can make tremendous gains." In this webinar,
Arcos will discuss his efforts to align math instruction with students'
learning needs and offer ways that schools and districts can support and scale
up personalized-learning projects.
Guest:
Silvestre
Arcos,
founding math teacher and instructional coach, KIPP Washington Heights Middle
School, New York City
This
webinar will be moderated by Ross Brenneman, assistant editor, Education Week Teacher
Register now for this free live webinar.
Glenwood
Community Schools Shares Their Experience With Google Apps, Chromebooks, and
Tablets
In this
webinar, you'll hear directly from Kimberly Payne, educational technology
coordinator at Glenwood Community School District. With an emphasis on digital
literacy, the district decided to "Go Google" with a
"1-to-Web" Initiative for Chromebooks in grades 3-12 and tablets for
grades K-2. Payne will share details about her district's experience serving
over 2,100 students in five different schools with Google for Education and
give insights into how these tools are being used in the classroom.
Participants
will:
- Get
an overview of the Google for Education solution,
- Discover
how this solution can be used to improve student learning, collaboration,
and innovation,
- Hear
firsthand experience from a district using Google Apps, Chromebooks, and
tablets, and
- Learn
how the district provided professional development to help ensure the
devices & tools would enhance classroom learning.
Guest:
Kimberly
Payne,
Educational Technology Coordinator, Glenwood Community School District, Iowa
This
webinar will be moderated by Brent Sarver, Google for Education Team, Google
Register now for this free live webinar.
