Education Webinar Series—Archives
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2013 Webinars
February—Powerful, Flexible, Scalable 1:1 Technology Without Limits Using Free Software
Length: 40 min
Agenda:
Saugus Union School District has implemented a successful 1:1 initiative utilizing "UberMix" - a free software that helps keep the total cost of ownership of the devices within budget and also provides for efficient management and integration of the devices for the technology department. Jim will be sharing his experiences on this implementation.
Speakers:
Jim Klein,
Director Information Services & Technology
RHCE, LPIC, NCLA, NCDTS, CNE
Saugus Union School District, CA
For nearly two decades, Jim has been bringing powerful ideas for learning technology to schools all over the world, particularly in the areas of open-source software and social media. He has earned a reputation as an aggressive technology leader, whose expertise is widely sought and freely shared through his blog, magazine articles, and regular appearances at a variety of national and international education technology conferences. Jim currently serves on a number of committees and panels, and has been recognized as a T.H.E. Journal Innovator, NetworkWorld All Star, and a National School Boards Association "20 to watch" educator. He is also founder of the Ubermix project and is chairman of the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) K-12 Open Technologies Initiative.
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2013 Webinars
Length: 59 min
Speakers:
Rob Mancabelli
Rob Mancabelli is an educational speaker, author & entrepreneur. Rob has fifteen years of experience in schools, working as a teacher and Chief Technology Officer, and he's the co-author of the book "Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education," a medal winner for Education Book of the Year. A dynamic and engaging speaker, Rob describes in vivid detail how technology is dramatically changing the way teachers and students learn in the 21st Century. Rob sits on the Educational Advisory Boards of Dell Computer and Acer Corporation, and he is a columnist for leading education publications. He is also the co-founder of BrightBytes.net, and he has earned an MBA in innovation and global leadership from MIT.
Agenda:
Schools are investing billions in technology programs with the goal of improving student outcomes, but how can they measure whether their technology initiatives are creating transformative 21st Century learning environments? In this webinar, Rob Mancabelli outlines key goals that every school should have for their technology programs. He then discusses why data is such a powerful tool for fulfilling this vision, including the many challenges inherent in using it. Rob then talks about one organizations's approach to solving this problem, including a discussion of a free framework available to all schools.
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2012 Webinars
Length: 57 min
Speakers:
Sharon Garvar (English Faculty & Teacher of the Year 2012-2013,Academy of the Canyons Middle College High School, Santa Clarita, CA )
Agenda:
This presentation will share examples of a cross curricular lesson plan utilizing tablets in the classroom. Additional Web 2.0 tools that help integrate technology as a tool into curriculum will also be discussed.
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Length: 57 min
Speakers:
Robin Phares (Technology Integration Specialist, Edgewood City Schools, OH)
Kathy Korty (Curriculum & Technology Specialist, Edgewood City Schools, OH)
Agenda:
Robin Phares and Kathy Korty of the Edgewood City Schools, OH will share their experiences from developing and providing an online professional development program for the Acer Iconia Tablets. This complimentary course was designed by the teachers and technology co-ordinators of the school district, for the teachers, and delivered during the summer break. Robin and Kathy will share their challenges, lessons learned and insights from this journey.
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Length: 57 min
Nancy Caramanico
Nancy is a passionate edtech advocate with experience as a technology director, staff developer and grant writer. She is the former Director of Technology, K-12 for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Schools and focuses on providing resources to enable students and teachers make necessary connections for 21st century technology enriched learning.
Agenda:
This webcast will feature examples of technology being implemented in middle and high school classrooms. The presentation will showcase classroom lessons and the role technology is playing in 21st century learning.
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Speakers: Tim Goree, (Director of Technology Support Services, Fairfield-Suisun USD, CA; Director at Large, Speaker Chair at CETPA)
Fairfield-Suisun USD has an enrollment of approximately 23,000 K-12 students, and is comprised of 31 schools. Tim leads a group of 23 dedicated employees that support the technology infrastructure of the district and its 31 schools, also providing future technology vision, planning, and professional development. CETPA (California Educational Technology Professionals Association) is a non-profit organization that supports technology staff and management who work in education and is one of the premier education technology conferences on the west coast with an annual attendance from 3000+ educators from CA.
Agenda:
Project Based Learning is systematic teaching method that engages students in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed projects and tasks. Moving towards collaborative, inquiry-based learning is hard work for most districts, forcing them to build new skills and invest in critical supporting technology. While challenging, however, shifting towards project-based instruction is critical. Fairfield-Suisun School District in CA decided to combine a PBL initiative with a 1:1 computing pilot as both were critical to providing their students' with a comprehensive learning experience.
Length: 49 min
Speakers: Randy Schmidt, (Miami Valley Career Technology Center, Clayton, OH)
Agenda:
Tablets have transformed today's classrooms and have enhanced the way teachers present their lessons and students access information. They have been proven to offer many benefits, ranging from offering educational software designed to work with other classroom technologies to the display of enhanced e-textbooks to integrating easily with other education IT trends.
This webinar will walk us through the implementation process of the Acer Iconia A500 tablets in a learning environment from an IT director's perspective including the process of integrating them in the existing IT infrastructure.
MVCTC offers over 50 career technical programs for high school juniors and seniors, and lifelong learning opportunities for adult students in the Adult Education programs and serves 27 area high schools. Randy's technology leadership has positioned MVCTC to influence economic development in five southwestern Ohio counties (Montgomery, Warren, Preble, Darke, and Miami) by preparing students for the 21st century workforce.
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Length: 49 min
Speakers: Catherine Pape (Hilton Elementary School, Newport News, VA)
Agenda:
Tablets have transformed today's classrooms and have enhanced the way teachers present their lessons and students access information. They have been proven to offer many benefits, ranging from offering educational software designed to work with other classroom technologies to the display of enhanced e-textbooks to integrating easily with other education IT trends.
This webinar will explore a variety of interactive, classroom-based learning software being used on Acer Tablet PCs to enhance student engagement by delivering more interactive, collaborative and fun learning experiences. Real world classroom examples will demonstrate how teachers are able to customize education to each student's needs.
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Length: 60 min
Speakers: Sarah Wilkins (Director , Beginning Readers Program, Carroll School, MA); Jim Panopoulos (Technology Director, Carroll School, MA); Steve Wilkins (Head of School, Carroll School, MA)
Agenda:
Please join us to learn more about a school's education technology programs that have helped to enhance curriculum and provide innovative teaching methods using a multi-sensory approach (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile) with a variety of educational software and web applications, to enable students to analyze, gather, organize and communicate information in an effective manner.
The presentation will also feature examples of use of computers with first and second graders and how their work and the right programs help informed teaching for meeting the educational needs of children diagnosed with language-based learning disabilities.
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Length: 60 min
Speakers: Karl Buchanan (STechnology Director, Wasatch School District, UT), Brett Zabel (Assistant Principal, Timpanogos Intermediate School, Heber City, UT)
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Please join us to learn more about a school district's experiences in cost savings while implementing a 1:1 computing initiative for their fifth grade classrooms.
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2011 Webinars
Length: 57 min
Speakers: Rob Mancabelli (Speaker, Writer & Consultant - Author of Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education 2011)
Agenda:
Tips to creatively fund a long term school or district technology plan by eliminating current overlooked and underutilized expenses from a school budget.
With nearly twenty years of experience in educational leadership, technology, and planning, Rob Mancabelli partners with schools, universities, and corporations to develop 21st century learning organizations. Since 2003, Rob has inspired audiences around the world with insights into the change process, strategies for engaging stakeholders, and methods for transforming organizations to meet the rapidly evolving demands of a globally connected world. A former CIO and certified PMP, he writes for numerous publications such as School CIO magazine, as well as at www.mancabelli.com; serves on K–12 advisory boards for Dell Computer and Acer Corporation; and is in the process of completing his MBA at MIT. Rob lives with his wife, Gayle Allen, in New York City.
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Length: 35 min
Speakers: Keith Schaeper (Educational Technology Director - Seton High School, OH)
Agenda:
In the current learning environment schools are flooded with technology. Teaching staff are constantly being provided with and requesting new tools to assist them in reaching students. When adding any new hardware or software into a school, you must consider the professional development and support which will be necessary. In this presentation, we will discuss how a school's professional development plans and end-user support infrastructure are linked. The presenter will discuss how to plan professional development for your staff which will ultimately increase the level of support provided.
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Length: 35 min
Speakers: William D. Fritz (Technology Director - Sycamore Community Schools, OH)
Agenda:
Learning management systems have the potential to greatly enhance communication between students and faculty in a school environment. A typical LMS is designed to provide a learning environment beyond the walls of the classroom. Teachers have the ability to post assignments, discussions, media and other useful information that allows students to learn, share and collaborate 24/7. This session will focus on the potential advantages of a LMS along with featuring some real world examples.
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Length: 1 hour 02 min
Speakers: Rob Mancabelli (Speaker, Writer & Consultant, Author of Personal Learning Networks: using the power of Connections to Transform Education 2011)
Agenda:
The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. Social networking tools empower us to build global learning networks where we can pursue our intellectual and creative passions with people around the world. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. Personal Learning Networks play an important role and are an essential road map to guide that transformation.
Following a bottom-up progression, the key note speaker will help educators understand the power of these networks and become networked individuals. He will walk through how to use learning networks in the classroom to improve student outcomes and how to make the case for learning network use across your entire school. Using step-by-step advice and real-world stories, this session aims to narrow the technological divide, put educators on the same footing as students, and provide a recipe for incorporating these tools into every classroom.
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Length: 1 hour 02 min
Speakers: Rob Mancabelli (Speaker, Writer & Consultant, Author of Personal Learning Networks: using the power of Connections to Transform Education 2011)
Agenda:
The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. Social networking tools empower us to build global learning networks where we can pursue our intellectual and creative passions with people around the world. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. Personal Learning Networks play an important role and are an essential road map to guide that transformation.
Following a bottom-up progression, the key note speaker will help educators understand the power of these networks and become networked individuals. He will walk through how to use learning networks in the classroom to improve student outcomes and how to make the case for learning network use across your entire school. Using step-by-step advice and real-world stories, this session aims to narrow the technological divide, put educators on the same footing as students, and provide a recipe for incorporating these tools into every classroom.
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Length: 59 min
Speakers: Mike Lee (The Eleven Agency)
Agenda:
According to a Microsoft survey, nearly 40 percent of employed U.S. adults reported that they wanted a more efficient way to take notes. According to a survey carried out by Microsoft Research, 91 percent of us regularly take down handwritten notes, but only 26 percent of us transfer them to digital format, and 23 percent often can't find our notes in the first place. It follows that there's room to make note-taking work better. Microsoft has developed software routines that electronically ease much of the drudgery of note-taking and automate tasks that were impossible to do manually.
Because information is important to everyone, and using information effectively enhances productivity, OneNote can provide an excellent, easy-to-learn-and-use tool for capturing and sharing notes across a variety of media. Specifically, everyone connected to an academic institution can benefit in a number of ways by utilizing a flexible note-taking tool.
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Length: 59 min
Speakers: Chris White (Senior Director, Business Management, Acer Group)
Agenda:
Tablet computing has the potential of transforming the learning experience by further enhancing the digital classrooms with touch technology. They are flexible productivity tools - enabling better classroom interaction; higher-impact presentations; greater knowledge retention; and more efficient lecture planning and appraisal processes. Tablets are also full-featured, all-in-one devices to store learning materials, take notes, study coursework, work on papers and projects, submit homework, and take exams.
This webinar will talk about the Acer Iconia tablets family including the W500 and A500 tablets.
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Length: 59 min
Speakers: Chuck Farraj (Chief Information Officer, Remington College); Bobby Clark (IT Project Manager for Remington College, Inc)
Agenda:
1. The use of Microsoft APP-V to package and deliver specific applications to students by their
program of study and term from any machine in any classroom
2. The benefits of this approach
3. The lessons learned
4. The use of Acer Nettops in classrooms to upgrade the quality of the student workstation
Our guest speaker, Mr. Chuck Farraj is responsible for IT strategy and operations for 20 campuses at Remington Colleges Inc., which is a provider of online and ground-based post-secondary education.
Previously, Chuck was Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Higher Education where he was responsible for IT strategy and operations for 22 campuses. Prior to joining Liberty, Chuck was Chief Information Officer at Kaplan Inc, a multi-billion dollar provider of lifelong educational services with operations around the globe. Prior to leading technology at the corporate level, Chuck was CIO at Kaplan's largest division, Kaplan Higher Education. Chuck has his BBA and Masters in Accountancy from the University of Iowa.
Bobby is responsible for seeing through the complete lifecycle of IT Enterprise Projects and supply Level 3 support to Remington College's Service Desk. Previously, Bobby was IT Manager for Holiday Builders, Inc. where he was responsible for overseeing day to day IT Support for 40+ Showcase homes, 15 Division, and 2 Corporate Offices. In addition to his IT Manager duties, Bobby also served as a System Administrator. Bobby earned his Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Central Florida. In 2005 Bobby received his certification as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. He has also taken and completed continuing education courses at Florida Institute of Technology and University of Florida.
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Speakers: - Roger Wilcox (Principal, Washington Irving Elementary School & West Cedar Elementary School, IA)
Agenda:
This webinar will focus on the various tools technology provides that can used for authentic learning. In a technology-rich classroom, students don't "learn" technology; instead learn to utilize it as a means. Technology provides educators with the opportunity to move from simply streamlining the way things have always been done to really imagining things they would like to do.
Our guest speaker, Roger Wilcox, has been involved with K-12 education for 30 years in a career spanning various roles, from teacher to technology enthusiast to administrator. He has received numerous honors like the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, 2000; Waverly Newspaper "Person of the Year-Education Leader," 2006, School Administrators of Iowa - Arts Administrator of the Year 2010 and Iowa Music Educators Association Administrator of the Year for the Support of the Arts to name a few.
He passionately believes in the power of technology to enhance learning, when used as a means to the end and will share his perspective and experiences on the ways in which technology can enhance learning including
• Integrating technology into classroom instruction
• Using technology as a public relations tool
• Professional development for staff
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2010 Webinars
Length: 1 hour 3 min
Speakers: - Jana Hoggle (Director of Federal Programs and Technology, Marengo County School District, AL); Patrick Robinson (Technology Coordinator Director, Laurel School District, MI)
Agenda:
This webinar will focus on the need and impact of a complete 21st century learning ecosystem - .An integrated, easy-to-use framework to facilitate broad educational transformation. Providing bridging technologies that integrate existing technology with best practices for 21st Century teaching and learning are three important keys to making 21st Century Learning a reality. Learning Ecosystems must be developed that easily accommodate the deep interdependence of people, the learning environment and the tools.
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Length: 48 min
Speakers: Nancy Caramanico (Director of Technology, K-12, Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Schools)
Agenda:
Nancy Caramanico is a strong supporter of professional development and has been actively involved in providing resources to teachers within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Schools. She will share some of the experiences, challenges, strategies implemented and accomplishments from her school district.
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Length: 1 hour 3 min
Speakers: Gary Brantley (Chief Information Systems Officer, Lorain City Schools)
Agenda:
This Webinar will provide information on how to begin the planning process and take an inside look at a district that has effective solutions in place. Find out how they successfully and cost-effectively implemented technology, enhanced the teaching environment and increased student engagement by creating a successful technology plan that address their districts' goals, challenges, and needs and are cost effective at the same time.
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Length: 1 hour 3 min
Speakers: Eileen Lento, PhD. (Government and Education Strategist, Intel Americas, Board Member at International Society for Technology in Education; Pete Dailey (Sr. Mgr. Product Marketing - U.S. Notebooks, Acer Group - Acer/Gateway/eMachines)
Agenda:
• Mobile Platforms in Education
• Netbook and Notebook computers: Functionality, Deployment, Challenges and Usability in the classroom environment
• Understanding the requirements of digital learning environments
• Paradigm shift in K-12 learning environments
• Instruction Centric Technology
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Length: 1 hour 1 min
Speakers: Sonny Magana (Global Head of Research, Promethean); Bob Kirby (Vice President of K-12 Education Sales, CDW-G); Gregg Prendergast (VP of Commercial Sales & Marketing, Acer America)
Agenda:
• Achievement tied to LRS systems
• Increased student engagement and attendance
• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
• Instructional feedback instead of formative assessment
• How current funding streams can apply
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Length: 1 hour 2 mins
Speaker: Rob Mancabelli, Director of Information Systems from Hunterdon Central Regional High School
Agenda:
• The changing learning environment – for both students and teachers
• Creating 21st Century Classrooms at Hunterdon High
• The role of professional development in promoting and expanding 21st Century initiatives
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