From edWeb.net:
Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. Eastern for Making
Connections That Matter with Steven Anderson, content and relationship
evangelist for Promethean. Learn more and pre-register.
Visit the ReEnergize Today's Connected Classroom community at www.edweb.net/classflow.
Join us on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. Eastern for Engage, Empower,
Energize: Leading Tomorrow's Schools Today with Dr. Robert Dillon, director of
technology and innovation, Affton School District. Learn more and pre-register.
Visit the Leadership 3.0 community at www.edweb.net/leadership.
From Education Week:
Digital
Leader Corps-Fueling An Innovative Change Movement Around Instruction
Designed
to scale digital transformation and re-image the culture of teaching and
learning, Discovery Education's Digital Leader Corps is a three-year +
professional learning partnership for educators and school leaders. This system
is employed to fuel an innovative change movement around instruction, which is
intentionally designed to drive system transformation, build a culture of
continuous improvement, support a shared leadership model, and maximize
teachers' impact on student learning.
Join Todd
Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School
System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery
Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core
State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to
scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this
digital and instructional journey.
Guest:
Todd
Wirt,
assistant superintendent for academics, Wake County public school system, N.C.
This
webinar will be moderated by Carol Wetzel, senior director, Discovery Education
Register now for this free live webinar.
Here are 8 upcoming FREE webinars --- all you have to do is register - everything from assistive tech, accessible materials, mobility, art, farming, tech and learning, digital leadership and live from Antarctica!
From Ablenet:
January
15, 2014
QIAT Session 5: AT
Implementation
Assistive technology implementation involves people working together to support
a student who uses assistive technology to accomplish tasks necessary for
active participation and progress in customary educational environments.
Assistive technology implementation describes the ways that assistive
technology devices and services, as included in the IEP are delivered and
integrated into a student´s educational program.
• Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM CST
• Presenters: Gayl Bowser & Jane Korsten of QIAT.or
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Click here to register
January
16, 2014
Accessible Instructional
Materials (AIM)
One area, which is often overlooked, is where does the Accessible Instructional
Materials (AIM) come from? AIM can range from simply enlarged print to
digitized materials. This webinar will cover tools for creating AIM, sources of
already created materials and ways to make these materials more accessible.
There will be a brief overview of several readily available devices, ranging
from eReaders to computers.
• Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST
• Presenters: Frank Sapp, MBA, MS
• Level: Beginner
Click here to register
January
21, 2014
Power Mobility:
Determining and Developing Readiness
When recommending a power wheelchair, a number of features must be considered,
such as driving method, seating, and drive wheel configuration. This webinar
will present strategies to both determine and develop readiness.
• Time: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM CST
• Presenters: Michelle Lange, OTR, ABDA, ATP/SMS
• Level: Beginner
Click here to register
January
28, 2014
Creative Art Experiences
Integrated with Functional Outcome
In this session, participants will learn how to provide enriching art
experiences - both fine art and performing arts - for students with significant
disabilities to make learning fun and joyful.
• Time: 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM CST
• Presenters: Padmaja Sarathy MA
• Level: Beginner
Click here to register
Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m. Eastern for Tools to Create
Social Change Through Youth Farming and Gardening, with Greg Gale, associate
director of programs at VISIONS and training consultant with The Food Project,
and Johanna Gilligan, founder and executive director of Grow Dat Youth Farm. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Growing School Gardens community at www.edweb.net/schoolgardens.
Join us on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 4 p.m. Eastern for Motivate
Students by Integrating Tech into Learning (Even When Tech Access is Limited),
with Daisy Dyer Duerr, principal of St. Paul Schools in Arkansas. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Leadership 3.0 community at www.edweb.net/leadership.
Join us on Wednesday, Jan.
22 at 4 p.m. Eastern for "Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for
Changing Times," with Eric Sheninger, principal, New Milford High School,
N.J. Learnmore and pre-register. Visit the Leadership 3.0 community at www.edweb.net/leadership.
Join us on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 1 p.m. Eastern for "TFK Live
from Antarctica," with Suzanne Zimbler, assistant managing editor, TIME
For Kids, and Jaime Joyce, assistant managing editor, education, TIME For Kids.
Learn
more and pre-register. Visit the Real World Literacy and the Common Core
community at www.edweb.net/realworldliteracy.
