Saturday, January 29, 2011

Week of January 31, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars).

Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

KAREN CATOR ON THE NATIONAL EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY PLAN (Future of Education Series)
Mon 31 Jan 06:00PM New York / Mon 31 Jan 11:00PM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 10:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Karen Cator, Director of the Office of Educational Technology, on education, technology, and the 2010 National Education Technology Plan.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131618

STEM/PBL COLLABORATION (Middle School Portal 2)
Mon 31 Jan 07:00PM New York / Tue 1 Feb 12:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 11:00AM Sydney
Mary Henton. Incorporate STEM activities through project-based learning. This webinar will discuss how STEM and PBL projects work together, 21st Century skills and how to use Bloom's taxonomy to create projects for student engagement.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/132687

EPORTFOLIO COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: PD STRATEGIES (Australia Series)
Mon 31 Jan 09:00PM New York / Tue 1 Feb 02:00AM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 01:00PM Sydney
Coach Carole. Meeting #5 of the EpCoP: PD strategies - What strategies would you choose to help others get started with eportfolios? How would you structure a short course in eportfolios? What are the best methods of doing all of this online? Please join us to discuss, we value your opinions and ideas. Also a chance to help develop the EpCoP blog for 2011 and help promote the EpCoP events for Feb - June.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/123800

DAVID WILEY ON OPEN EDUCATION (Future of Education Series)
Mon 31 Jan 06:00PM New York / Mon 31 Jan 11:00PM GMT / Tue 1 Feb 10:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge, and Founder of the Open High School of Utah. David is well know for his work on open content, open education, and informal online learning communities.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/132743

PSYCHOLOGY OF MATH LEARNING (Math 2.0 Series)
Tue 1 Feb 09:00PM New York / Wed 2 Feb 02:00AM GMT / Wed 2 Feb 01:00PM Sydney
Carol Cross. Join this webinar for a live discussion for P2PU Class "Psychology of Math Learning".
http://www.learncentral.org/event/132581

ET@LKING: AN EBOX FULL OF TWEETS (Australia Series)
Wed 2 Feb 05:00AM New York / Wed 2 Feb 10:00AM GMT / Wed 2 Feb 09:00PM Sydney
Anne Mirtschin. This is a follow up to our inaugural eT@lking session for 2011 on the widespread uptake and use of twitter during the current flood disasters in Australia. Why use twitter? How can twitter be used effectively? What impact is twitter having on society and therefore what is the impact for education? What desktop applications can be used eg tweetdeck, hootsuite etc. What are hashtags in twitter? How can they be used to good effect? What tags do people follow? How can twitter be used as a search engine? Join us for a general discussion session. This is open to all – people who are new to twitter and those who already use twitter. Opportunities will be provided for participants to ask questions and to share knowledge.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/134648

GET EVERYBODY ELSE TO DO IT: ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Wed 2 Feb 01:30PM New York / Wed 2 Feb 06:30PM GMT / Thu 3 Feb 05:30AM Sydney
Lou Russel. Join Lou Russell to learn how to grow the project management competence of everyone else so they don't drive you nuts. Learn ways to grow PM in your organization so you get the help you need to get more done with less chaos.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/130254

P2PU COURSE - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (Math 2.0 Series)
Wed 2 Feb 07:30PM New York / Thu 3 Feb 12:30AM GMT / Thu 3 Feb 11:30AM Sydney
Maria Droujkova. Join this webinar for a discussion about this fast-paced, highly interactive online course introduces curriculum development ideas of the last decade, concepts from the near future, and tried-and-true classics through participation in educator communities.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131361

BEING AN EMOTIONAL COACH TO GIFTED CHILDREN (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Thu 3 Feb 02:00PM New York / Thu 3 Feb 07:00PM GMT / Fri 4 Feb 06:00AM Sydney
Margaret Keane. Christine Fonseca, author and gifted advocate, suggests strategies to support the emotional needs of gifted children.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/98481

KAREN HUME ON "ENGAGING THE 21ST CENTURY LEARNER" (Future of Education Series)
Thu 3 Feb 08:00PM New York / Fri 4 Feb 01:00AM GMT / Fri 4 Feb 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Karen Hume on on her book Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/134859

A WOMAN'S WALK IN GRACE - CHAPTER 11 (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Thu 3 Feb 08:30PM New York / Fri 4 Feb 01:30AM GMT / Fri 4 Feb 12:30PM Sydney
Catherine Martin. Join Catherine Martin and others worldwide for the Chapter 11 Discussion For A Woman's Walk In Grace Study. This study is open to all who want to discover the magnificence of God's extravagant grace and experience it for themselves. You will learn that grace is God's love in action and it is "the face that love wears when it meets imperfection, weakness, failure, sin. Grace is what love does and is when it meets the sinful and undeserving."
http://www.learncentral.org/event/100315

CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE - SEEDS TO SUCCESS USING SKYPE IN THE CLASSROOM (Classroom 2.0 LIVE)
Sat 5 Feb 12:00PM New York / Sat 5 Feb 05:00PM GMT / Sun 6 Feb 04:00AM Sydney
Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George. Join Paula Naugle and Jan Wells as they share ways to innovatively use Skype in the classroom.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/134857

LEARN TO BE - ONLINE LEADERSHIP EXCHANGE (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Sat 5 Feb 03:00PM New York / Sat 5 Feb 08:00PM GMT / Sun 6 Feb 07:00AM Sydney
Jingshen Zhao. Learn To Be is a non-profit that provides free online tutoring to children in underserved communities. The Online Leadership Exchange is an hour-long meeting open to the public where leaders from the various University Chapters come together to share updates and discuss best practices. More information about Learn To Be is available at http://www.learntobe.org
http://www.learncentral.org/event/134195

Live Interview Thursday, February 3rd - Karen Hume on "Engaging the 21st Century Learner"

Join me Thursday, February 3rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Hume on her book Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner.

Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/134859

Karen Hume is a well known Canadian teacher, administrator, author, speaker, and workshop leader. The winner of three “Teacher of the Year” awards, Karen draws from her wealth of experiences and extensive knowledge base to provide focused, practical, and inspiring support to teachers and administrators.

Karen has her M.Ed. in curriculum and teacher development, has been a member of a university research group funded to investigate the role of talk in the classroom, and is a member of the editorial board of an online action research journal.

Karen Hume has written 6 professional development books for teachers. Her latest publication is Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner (Pearson Canada, 2010). Her previous best-sellers include Start Where They Are, and Evidence to Action. Karen’s writing, workshop facilitation, and keynote addresses revolve around differentiated instruction, which she sees as an organizing framework for everything that happens in teaching and learning at all levels of a school system.
The Tuned Out book and its website are fabulous resources, showing you how to realize an invigorated, student-focused classroom that takes full advantage of today’s digital technologies. Teachers and students today need to be creative, flexible and collaborative learners, and Hume explains how to make this happen. - Don Tapscott
Karen has launched a new website and blog at www.karenhume.ca, and her Twitter handle is @humekaren. She invites teachers to join the conversation!

Live Interview Tuesday, February 1st - David Wiley on Open Education

Join me Tuesday, February 1st, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Wiley, Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University, Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge, and Founder of the Open High School of Utah. David is well know for his work on open content, open education, and informal online learning communities.

Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Time: 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/132743

Dr. David Wiley is Associate Professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education and Schooling with responsibility for the research unit.

David is founder and board member of the Open High School of Utah and Chief Openness Officer of Flat World Knowledge. David was formerly Associate Professor of Instructional Technology and Director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University. David has been a Nonresident Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Visiting Scholar at the Open University of the Netherlands, and a recipient of the US National Science Foundation's CAREER grant. David is also the Founder of OpenContent.org and was recently named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. His career is dedicated to increasing access to educational opportunity for everyone around the world.

David is an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), and served a two-year mission for the church in Fukuoka, Japan. David lives in Utah with his wife, Elaine, and their five children.

Monday, January 24, 2011

The Teacher 2.0 Brainstorm: Building a Personal and Career Support Network

Join me on Thursday, January 27th, as I hold an open community discussion on building a social network that might provide educators with grass-roots personal, professional, and career support.

The Background:

This summer, on a lazy August evening, I interviewed David Wood, the author of Get Paid for Who You Are.  I'd previously interviewed Dan Schawbel on his book Me 2.0 (both interviews are recorded and available here), and the idea was to continue the conversation on student entrepreneurship and personal portfolios in the world of specialization that the Internet provides.  To my great surprise, over 180 people showed up live to hear David (normally on a summer evening, we'd be lucky to hit 50 or 60, even with a really strong guest).

While I was conducting the interview, something became obvious to me in the text chat conversation.  It seemed that a number of the educators who were in attendance were there in order to think about or explore their own career options.  So about half-way through the interview, I stopped and polled the audience.  How many were there to learn about how to help their students in this new entrepreneurial world?  About half raised their virtual hands.  How many were there to think about their own careers?  The other half!  This took me by surprise, but in retrospect made all the sense in the world.  Educators are highly likely to be in the field because of their passion to help others and their desire to make a difference in the world.  With tightening school budgets and large numbers of educators being laid off or just less secure in their employment, it seemed to me very smart for them to be thinking about how they might expand or enhance their careers in the same "personal branding" ways that David was talking about.  I wondered if I'd been able to make the poll anonymous, would even more have indicated they were there for themselves?

The Idea:

Knowing that the main social networking projects I've been involved with for educators (like Classroom 2.0 and Elluminate's LearnCentral) have centered on the sharing of professional, in-classroom practice, I've wondered about re-positioning one of my networks that has been lying fallow--thanks to the Ning shift to a paid model--like School 2.0 or EduBloggerWorld, and turning it into a Teacher 2.0 network where educators could gather to discuss personal and career interests.  I'm envisioning discussions and Webinars on topics like:  building your blog or personal/professional website, creating and participating in specialized communities, hosting your own specialized Webinar series, starting an education-related business, speaking at conferences, etc.

If the idea interests you, I hope you will join me this Thursday to start the brainstorm.  What kinds of things could a Teacher 2.0 network provide that you would want?  Are you interested in hearing other educators talk about how they have created and built their own careers, personal learning networks, and reputations in authentic ways? Are there educators who have found work or passion-based opportunities outside of the traditional classroom?  I'm sure I'm missing some great ideas, so please come and share!  If there are already networks that you use on the web for this, come tell us about them, what you like, and how we might support them or supplement what they already do.

Date: Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/133547

Live Interview Wednesday, January 26th - Michael Horn Revisits Disrupting Class

Join me Wednesday, January 26th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Horn, co-author of Disrupting Class:  How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, now updated and expanded.  Michael has been a frequent guest on the show, documenting the education white papers and studies coming from Innosight Institute, where he is the Executive Director for Education.

Date: Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Time: 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/132741

Michael B. Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director, Education of Innosight Institute, a not-for-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. BusinessWeek named the book one of the 10 Best Innovation and Design Books of 2008, Strategy + Business awarded it the best human capital book of 2008, Newsweek named it as the 14th book on its list of “Fifty Books for Our Times,” and the National Chamber Foundation named it first among its 10 “Books that Drive the Debate 2009.”

Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World LearnsDisrupting Class uses the theories of disruptive innovation to identify the root causes of schools’ struggles and suggests a path forward to customize an education for every child in the way she learns. Horn has been a featured keynote speaker at many conferences including the Virtual School Symposium and Microsoft’s School of the Future World Summit. Tech+Learning magazine also named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education.

Prior to this, Horn worked at America Online during its aol.com re-launch, and before that he served as David Gergen’s research assistant, where he tracked and wrote about politics and public policy. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News and World Report. In addition, he has contributed research for Charles Ellis’ book, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox (Wiley, 2006) and Barbara Kellerman’s Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).

Horn earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Yale University, where he graduated with distinction in History.

Live Interview on January 25 - Inside the Mind of Gary Stager

Join me Tuesday, January 25th, as we go inside the mind of Dr. Gary Stager for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar.  Gary is an educator who doesn't hesitate to speak out and generate controversy, and his ideas will stick with you.  If you haven't heard him before, hopefully we'll do a good job of giving you a one-hour overview of his thoughts on teaching and learning, technology in education, and school reform.

Date: Tueaday, January 25th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/132740

Since 1982, Gary Stager, an internationally recognized educator, speaker and consultant, has helped learners of all ages on six continents embrace the power of computers as intellectual laboratories and vehicles for self-expression. He led professional development in the world's first laptop schools (1990), has designed online graduate school programs since the mid-90s, is a collaborator in the MIT Media Lab's Future of Learning Group and a member of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Learning Team. Mr. Stager's doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens. Recent work includes teaching and mentoring some of Australia's "most troubled" public schools. Gary was a Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University, Senior Editor of District Administration Magazine, and Founding Editor of The Pulse: Education’s Place for Debate. He is an associate of the Thornburg Center and is the Executive Director of The Constructivist Consortium. In 1999, Converge Magazine named Gary a "shaper of our future and inventor of our destiny." The National School Boards Association recognized Dr. Stager with the distinction of "20 Leaders to Watch" in 2007. The June 2010 issue of Tech & Learning Magazine named Gary Stager as "one of today's leaders who are changing the landscape of edtech through innovation and leadership."

Week of January 24, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars).

Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

INSIDE THE MIND OF GARY STAGER (Future of Education Series)
Tue 25 Jan 08:00PM New York / Wed 26 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Wed 26 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Gary Stager and goes "Inside the Mind" of the often controversial education thinker.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/132740

GETTING CAMPUS-WIDE ADOPTION—AND HAPPY FACULTY—WITH BLACKBOARD COLLABORATE (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Wed 26 Jan 12:00PM New York / Wed 26 Jan 05:00PM GMT / Thu 27 Jan 04:00AM Sydney
Gailene Nelson. More than half of all faculty at the University of Findlay utilize Blackboard Collaborate for everything from live online classes and office hours, to meetings and virtual conferences. In fact, the faculty believe Blackboard Collaborate is so vital to their teaching that a recent survey found that 93% of all faculty ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’ to recommend Blackboard Collaborate to other faculty members. Join Mike Shaffer, Academic Technology Specialist at the University of Findlay, to gain insight into how he has spread true campus-wide adoption and to gain a few tips and tricks about how you too can garner similar wide-spread adoption at your own school.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/128729/

JANUARY MOODLE FORUM: THE LANDSCAPE OF K-12 ONLINE LEARNING (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Wed 26 Jan 03:30PM New York / Wed 26 Jan 08:30PM GMT / Thu 27 Jan 07:30AM Sydney
Laura Mikowychok. Join Laura and special guest Allison Powell, Vice President of iNACOL, for "The Landscape of K-12 Online Learning". What does the future of learning look like? How do we define a world-class education for today’s students? Online learning offers a solution for expanding opportunities, global collaboration, and 21st century skills. Learn about the latest research and what works for K-12 online learning.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/128495

MICHAEL HORN REVISITS DISRUPTING CLASS -- THE 2ND EDITION (Future of Education Series)
Wed 26 Jan 07:00PM New York / Thu 27 Jan 12:00AM GMT / Thu 27 Jan 11:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve interviews regular guest Michael Horn, co-author of Disrupting Class, to discuss the new edition of the book.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/132741

P2PU COURSE - CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (Math 2.0 Series)
Wed 26 Jan 07:30PM New York / Thu 27 Jan 12:30AM GMT / Thu 27 Jan 11:30AM Sydney
Maria Droujkova. What does the future of learning look like? How do we define a world-class education for today’s students? A national and global perspective on the future trends in education, expectations for students, and what strategies schools need to have in place will be shared. Globalization requires students to be academically prepared for a vastly different workplace to achieve success in a knowledge-based economy. eLearning is providing a revolution across the globe for the best teachers to reach the most remote students as well as engage our most challenging populations—low income, at risk of dropping out, special needs, and ELL students. Online learning offers a solution for expanding opportunities, global collaboration, and 21st century skills. So all schools can deliver on the promise that every student should have access to the best education available, regardless of their neighborhood or geography. Learn about the latest research and what works for K-12 online learning.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131360

MATH FUTURE SERIES: HOWTOSMILE.ORG - SCIENCE AND MATH INFORMAL LEARNING EDUCATORS (Math 2.0 Series)
Wed 26 Jan 09:30PM New York / Thu 27 Jan 02:30AM GMT / Thu 27 Jan 01:30PM Sydney
Maria Droujkova. Sherry Hsi will lead us in exploring http://howtosmile.org and answer questions about the project.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131104

SUSTAINABILITY STUDIO OPENING (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Thu 27 Jan 12:00PM New York / Thu 27 Jan 05:00PM GMT / Fri 28 Jan 04:00AM Sydney
C Geith. Join the opening session for "P2PU Sustainability"s.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/130108

SCHOOLS AS LAGGING INDICATORS OF CULTURAL CHANGE: RESPONDING TO THE DIG. MEDIA LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Thu 27 Jan 05:00PM New York / Thu 27 Jan 10:00PM GMT / Fri 28 Jan 09:00AM Sydney
Jason Borgen. Over the past several decades the way human culture is produced, disseminated and used has been transformed in profound ways by digital media. In the past few years, social networking, blogs, the publication of video, civic, political, and artistic products produced persons who a short time ago would have had no publication outlet have played a particularly significant role in the content of the culture. Apart from notable exceptions, many school districts throughout the U.S. still operate within a context of a culture which is out of sync with the contemporary situation. Schools generally are making digital media fit into a “business as usual” rather than a transformation of the learning environment. This Webinar will consider the nature of the dissonance between the world as it is and the schools as they are. It will focus on leadership challenges for school personnel and will describe resources provided by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) to assist school leaders in responding to the challenge. The task is not just to define the gap but to close it.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/118300

TEACHER 2.0: BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT (Classroom 2.0 Series)
Thu 27 Jan 08:00PM New York / Fri 28 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Fri 28 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve holds an open community discussion on how Web 2.0 tools can provide educators with personal and professional support, as well as with career opportunities. How do you create and build your own personal reputation in an authentic way? How do you find work or passion-based opportunities outside of the traditional classroom? What is the value of a personal learning network? Given that the current educational environment is characterized by extremes--financial constraints exist alongside incredible new opportunities, and educators as the focus of intense criticism while at the same time acknowledged as being critical to school success--what kind of support would you want from a Teacher 2.0 network?
http://www.learncentral.org/event/133547

A WOMAN'S WALK IN GRACE - CHAPTER 10 (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Thu 27 Jan 08:30PM New York / Fri 28 Jan 01:30AM GMT / Fri 28 Jan 12:30PM Sydney
Catherine Martin. The presentation will be followed, as always, by an open Q&A time with Laura for all of your Moodle questions.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/100314

INFUSING DIGITAL STORIES THROUGHOUT THE PRIMARY CURRICULUM (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Sat 29 Jan 09:00AM New York / Sat 29 Jan 02:00PM GMT / Sun 30 Jan 01:00AM Sydney
S. Lister. Stories as an instructional strategy in math? Social studies? Phys-ed? And/or Science?!! Participants will experience the skills necessary to create digital stories and then learn how the process of digital storytelling can be applied in a variety subjects within the Primary grades. The workshop will conclude with tips and tricks for using Digital Storytelling in more demanding classrooms such as those with only 1 computer, limited technology, large class sizes, etc. This workshop will be presented in a ‘blended’ format where there will be f2f participants (pre-service teachers) in North Bay, Ontario, Canada mixing with online guests from around the world.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/125058

NOW SERVING...A CLASSROOM IN A CLOUD (Host Your Own Webinar Series)
Sat 29 Jan 02:00PM New York / Sat 29 Jan 07:00PM GMT / Sun 30 Jan 06:00AM Sydney
S. Lister. In this workshop we will examine web 2.0 educational applications. We will start with an appetizer of freely available open educational resources (OER’s) and then move onto the main course of Google applications – tasty morsels for every connected classroom. Dessert will be a selection of ‘cloud’ collaboration tools that can support global connections in the classroom. All diners will receive a parting gift of resources to build your own cloud personal learning network (PLN).
http://www.learncentral.org/event/125060

Monday, January 17, 2011

UPDATED: Live Interview on Monday Jan. 31 - Karen Cator on the National Education Technology Plan

Join me Monday, January 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Karen Cator, the Director of the Office of Education Technology, on education, technology, and the 2010 National Education Technology Plan.

Date: Monday, January 31st, 2011
Time: 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 11pm GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/node/131618

Karen Cator is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. She has devoted her career to creating the best possible learning environments for this generation of students. Prior to joining the department, Cator directed Apple's leadership and advocacy efforts in education. In this role, she focused on the intersection of education policy and research, emerging technologies, and the reality faced by teachers, students and administrators.

Cator joined Apple in 1997 from the public education sector, most recently leading technology planning and implementation in Juneau, Alaska. She also served as Special Assistant for Telecommunications for the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Cator holds a Masters in school administration from the University of Oregon and Bachelors in early childhood education from Springfield College. She is the past chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and has served on the several boards including the Software & Information Industry Association—Education.

The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.

It presents five goals with recommendations for states, districts, the federal government, and other stakeholders. Each goal addresses one of the five essential components of learning powered by technology: Learning, Assessment, Teaching, Infrastructure, and Productivity.

Live Interview on Thursday, Jan. 20 - Barnet Berry on Teaching 2030

Join me Thursday, January 20th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Barnett Berry on new book, Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future.  "In the raging controversy over the purpose of public education and how to fix the nation's underperforming schools, the voices of America's best teachers are seldom heard. Now for the first time, in a provocative book about the future of teaching and learning, 12 of America's most accomplished classroom educators join a leading advocate for a 21st-century teaching profession to bring expert pedagogical know-how and fresh and provocative policy ideas to the national school reform debate."

Date: Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/127863

Barnett Berry is the founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality, Inc., based in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Created in 1999, CTQ, seeks to dramatically increase student achievement across America by advancing teaching as a 21st-century, results oriented profession.

A former high school teacher, has worked as a social scientist at the RAND Corporation, served as a senior executive with the South Carolina State Department of Education, and directed an education policy center while he was a professor at the University of South Carolina. Barnett has authored numerous academic reports and publications and many articles for the popular education press (see selected works below). He frequently serves in an advisory capacity to organizations committed to teaching quality, equity and social justice in America's schools.

Meredith, Barnett’s wife of 34 years, is a special education teacher in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. They are the proud parents of Joseph, a community organizer for the Working Families Party (New York City), and Evan, who is now pursuing a passionate interest in sustainable agriculture in Olympia, Washington.

Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future"The authors of Teaching 2030 together they identify four emergent realities that will shape the learning experience of children born in the New Millennium -- and propose six levers of change that can ignite a bright future for our nation's students by ensuring they all have access to excellent teaching. To create the public schools all students deserve, today and tomorrow, the authors call on policymakers and the public to work with teachers in creating a dynamic and flexible learning environment for students and teachers, and powerful new ways to define and measure school success; transforming public education through digital technologies while reinventing brick and mortar school buildings into 24/7 hubs of community support for students and families; re-imagining teaching as a well-compensated career with many pathways, assuring that every child has qualified and effective teachers and that teaching expertise is constantly spread, in and out cyberspace; establishing a new leadership force of 600,000 teacherpreneurs -- classroom experts who continue to teach students regularly while also serving as teacher educators, policy researchers, community organizers, and trustees of their profession.

"Teaching 2030 provides a refreshing, grounded, and lively examination of what we need to know and do in order to ensure that every public school student in America has access to qualified, caring, and effective teachers."

Live Interview Wed., Jan. 19 - Yong Zhao on Education, China, and Tiger Moms

Join me Wednesday, January 19th, for a live and interactive webinar with Yong Zhao on the Chinese education system, international test scores, and "Tiger Moms." Professor Zhao has been a previous guest on the show to discuss his book Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and we revisit those themes in light of current educational discussions.

Date: Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/131508

Yong Zhao is currently Presidential Chair and Associate Dean for Global Education,College of Education at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE). He is a fellow of theInternational Academy for Education.

Until December, 2010, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence.

His research interests include educational policy, computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education.

Zhao has extensive international experiences. He has consulted with government and educational agencies and spoken on educational issues in many countries on six continents. His current work focuses on designing 21st Century Schools in the context of globalization and the digital revolution.

Zhao has published over 20 books and 100 articles. His most recent books are Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and the Handbook of Asian Education. He has also developed computer software, including the award-winning New Chengo/ZON (http://enterzon.com), the world’s first massively multi-player online role-playing game for studying Chinese.

Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English Language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing, China in 1986. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992. He then began his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993. He received his A.M. in Education in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the faculty at MSU in 1996 after working as the Language Center Coordinator at Willamette University and a language specialist at Hamilton College.

Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization

Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective

Live Interview on Tuesday Jan. 18 - Will Richardson

Join me Tuesday, January 18th, for another live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Will Richardson on education, technology, and the impact of Web 2.0 on teaching and learning.  Will is the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms and the "Learner in Chief" at Connective Learning.

Date: Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/127862

Will Richardson is “Learner in Chief” at Connective Learning and the author of  Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, now in its 2nd Edition.  He blogs, speaks, and trains on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audiocasts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm--technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world.

He is a national advisory board member for the George Lucas Education Foundation, writes a quarterly column called “Web 2.0″ for District Administration magazine, and is a regular contributor to journals such as Educational Leadership, Edutopia, English Journal and others.

Will blogs at http://weblogg-ed.com.

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms

Really Fun Lineup So Far For This Year's FutureofEducation.com Interview Series

I'm really enjoying how well the lineup for the FutureofEducation.com interview series is shaping up this year.  All of the events are live and free to attend, and recordings (both .mp3 and full Elluminate) are usually posted within a day.  More details are usually posted the week of the show, and if you join the FutureofEducation.com site, you'll start receiving a weekly email of these shows and others I'm involved in coordinating.  Recordings of all past shows can also be accessed at the site!
  • January 18th, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): A Conversation with Will Richardson on Social Media and Technology in Education
  • January 19th, Wednesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Yong Zhao on the Chinese education system, test scores, and "Tiger Moms."
  • January 20th, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Barnett Berry on Teaching 2030
  • January 24th, Monday (12pm Pacific, 3pm Eastern, 8pm GMT):Karen Cator on The National Education Technology Plan
  • January 25th, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT):  Gary Stager - Inside the Mind of Gary Stager
  • January 26th, Wednesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT):  Michael Horn on Revisiting Disrupting Class -- the 2nd Edition
  • February 1st, Tuesday (3pm Pacific, 6pm Eastern, 11pm GMT): David Wiley
  • February 3rd, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Karen Hume on Tuned Out
  • February 15th, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): David Perkins on Making Learning Whole
  • February 17th, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Kevin Kelly on What Technology Wants
  • February 22nd Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT):  John Seely Brown on The New Culture of Learning
  • February 24th, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Jim Klein on Social Networking in a School Community and Student Technology Use
  • March 1st, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Sandy Hirsch on Libraries and Digital Literacy
  • March 8th, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Don Smithmier on Crowd-sourced Learning
  • March 22nd, Tuesday (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern, 7pm GMT): Frederick Hess on The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas
  • April 7th, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Bernajean Porter on Local Engagement Around Education.
  • April 21st, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Barry Schwartz on The Paradox of Choice
  • May 19th, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT)Chris Guillebeau on The Art of Non-Conformity
  • June 2nd, Thursday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Cal Newport on How to Be a High School Superstar ("Hack Your Education" Series)
  • June 7th, Tuesday (5pm Pacific, 8pm Eastern, 1am GMT): Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons on The Invisible Gorilla
  • Accepted, and still scheduling:  Denise Pope on Doing School.

Week of January 17, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars).

Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

PARENTS AS PARTNERS (PARENTS AS PARTNERS)
Mon 17 Jan 09:00PM New York / Tue 18 Jan 02:00AM GMT / Tue 18 Jan 01:00PM Sydney
Lorna Costantini. Dr. Debbie Pushor from the University of Saskatchewan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education. Dr. Pushsor's doctoral work has focused on parent engagement and parent leadership.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/128922

INTERVIEW WITH WILL RICHARDSON (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Tue 18 Jan 08:00PM New York / Wed 19 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Wed 19 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Will Richardson on education, technology, and the impact of Web 2.0 on teaching and learning.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/127862/

SABERES 2.0 - REDES SOCIALES EN EL ENTORNO DE LA SALA DE CLASE (AULA 2.0)
Tue 18 Jan 09:00PM New York / Wed 19 Jan 02:00AM GMT / Wed 19 Jan 01:00PM Sydney
Tomas Chaskel. La educación siempre ha sido una red social.Enseñamos y aprendemos en red, greagariamente. Educar, simple y llanamente esinteraccionar, dialogar (La Mayéutica). Creamos interaccionado (intercreatividad), aprendemos colaborando (intercolaboración). Todo aprendizaje es tiempo de apertura.....
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131087

PRIMARY SOURCE GLOBAL READ (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Wed 19 Jan 03:00PM New York / Wed 19 Jan 08:00PM GMT / Thu 20 Jan 07:00AM Sydney
Maggie Kaiser. Primary Source is proud to announce a unique global reading opportunity. Responding to requests from educators, Primary Source will facilitate a FREE worldwide book discussion, or "Global Read," featuring an online discussion forum followed by a "live" web-based session. You are invited to join us for a discussion of the young adult novel, Bamboo People, by Mitali Perkins — a compelling coming-of-age story about child soldiers in modern Burma. The online discussion forum will begin on Wednesday, January 12th. Then join the author for a live chat on January 19th.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/126611

INTERVIEW WITH YONG ZHOU (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Wed 19 Jan 08:00PM New York / Thu 20 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Thu 20 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Yong Zhao on the Chinese education system, test scores, and "Tiger Moms."
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131508/Interview+with+Yong+Zhao

NOW'S THE TIME TO BECOME A POWERPOINT ROCK STAR! (ELLUMINATE LIVE EVENTS)
Thu 20 Jan 01:00PM New York / Thu 20 Jan 06:00PM GMT / Fri 21 Jan 05:00AM Sydney
Tom Kuhlmann. Want to know what’s new in PowerPoint 2010? Then check out these tips and tricks from Tom Kuhlmann, author of the Rapid E-Learning Blog. Tom will show off some of the new features that make PowerPoint 2010 one of the best and most versatile software applications out there. Whether you build presentations, develop elearning, or use PowerPoint to create graphics, you’re sure to benefit from this boatload of practical tips and tricks.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/127858

BUILDING COMMUNITY AT A DISTANCE: FACULTY DEVELOPMENT, PEER REVIEW, AND COLLABORATION TECHNOLOGY (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 20 Jan 01:30PM New York / Thu 20 Jan 06:30PM GMT / Fri 21 Jan 05:30AM Sydney
Gailene Nelson. In this session, as a result of their faculty development experience utilizing Wimba Pronto and Wimba Classroom, the presenters will share many of the benefits of a virtual, technologically mediated approach to peer-review, including: a sharpened focus on best practices in course design, faculty training on the use of Wimba collaboration tools and development of community among interdisciplinary faculty teaching at a distance who might never meet face-to-face.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/128735

VSTE WEBINAR (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 20 Jan 07:00PM New York / Fri 21 Jan 12:00AM GMT / Fri 21 Jan 11:00AM Sydney
VSTE. VSTE will host another webinar for educators.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/98358

INTERVIEW WITH BARNETT BARRY (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Thu 20 Jan 08:00PM New York / Fri 21 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Fri 21 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Barnett Berry on the new book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools
http://www.learncentral.org/event/127863

A WOMAN'S WALK IN GRACE - CHAPTER 9 (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 20 Jan 08:30PM New York / Fri 21 Jan 01:30AM GMT / Fri 21 Jan 12:30PM Sydney
Catherine Martin. Join Catherine Martin and others worldwide for the Chapter 9 Discussion For A Woman's Walk In Grace Study. This study is open to all who want to discover the magnificence of God's extravagant grace and experience it for themselves. You will learn that grace is God's love in action and it is "the face that love wears when it meets imperfection, weakness, failure, sin. Grace is what love does and is when it meets the sinful and undeserving."
http://www.learncentral.org/event/100312

BOOTSTRAP WORLD (MATH 2.0)
Sat 22 Jan 02:00PM New York / Sat 22 Jan 07:00PM GMT / Sun 23 Jan 06:00AM Sydney
Maria Droujkova. Emmanuel Schanzer will present this webinar about Bootstrap [http://www.bootstrapworld.org], an algebra-focused curriculum, which introduces students to functional programming by having them program their own videogames in a web-based IDE [http://www.wescheme.org]. The curriculum, freely available since 2006, currently reaches hundreds of at-risk middle school students around the country.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/131102

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Week of January 9, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

Below are this week's public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org, the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate.

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. Event recordings are posted and available after the events if you aren't able to attend them live. If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you'll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups!

We hope you will consider hosting your own public webinars using the free LearnCentral public room--instructions are available by joining the "Host Your Own Webinar" group on the main announcement tab (http://www.learncentral.org/group/3432/host-your-own-webinars).

Thanks for your attention, and see you online!

ECN WEBSTITUTE - KEYNOTE, JANE A. G. KISE (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Sun 9 Jan 06:00PM New York / Sun 9 Jan 11:00PM GMT / Mon 10 Jan 10:00AM Sydney
Karen LaBonte. The keynote address of the Second Webstitute of the English Companion Ning by Dr. Jane Kise
http://www.learncentral.org/event/123203

ECN WEBSTITUTE - GEORGE COUROS: UNINTENDED BENEFITS: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS USING SOCIAL MEDIA IN SC (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Sun 9 Jan 06:30PM New York / Sun 9 Jan 11:30PM GMT / Mon 10 Jan 10:30AM Sydney
Karen LaBonte. George's presentation will immediately flow into the Webstitute's closing conversation.We hope you'll stay to share your thoughts.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/128051

INTERVIEW WITH IRA DAVID SOCOL (FUTURE OF EDUCATION)
Tue 11 Jan 06:00PM New York / Tue 11 Jan 11:00PM GMT / Wed 12 Jan 10:00AM Sydney
Steve Hargadon. Steve Hargadon interviews Ira David Socol on education, reform, technology, and more.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/127864

1 TOOL AT A TIME WEBINAR: AUDACITY (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Wed 12 Jan 07:00PM New York / Thu 13 Jan 12:00AM GMT / Thu 13 Jan 11:00AM Sydney
Kate Christo. Participants will learn how to use Audacity, to record, import and edit sound including filtering and export a sound file in different formats for classroom and web use. Simple sound effects through to complex soundscapes can be created using audacity. The session will use classroom based examples. A sharing and question time will be part of the Webinar. Supporting literature will be provided and screenclips will complement the session. The demonstrations will be in Windows, however supporting resources will cover using Audacity on the Mac. Lawrence is a Senior lecturer in the College of Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He was a teacher and a special education teacher before moving into tertiary education. His areas of interest are learning, ICT, video and Assistive Technology.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/123305

READER'S THEATER AND INFORMATIONAL TEXT (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 13 Jan 04:00PM New York / Thu 13 Jan 09:00PM GMT / Fri 14 Jan 08:00AM Sydney
Kimberly Lightle. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. The series is sponsored by Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an NSF-funded project that provides professional development and instructional resources to elementary teachers.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/89908

THE KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLACE - CREATIVELY THINKING WITH KELLY TENKELY (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 13 Jan 07:00PM New York / Fri 14 Jan 12:00AM GMT / Fri 14 Jan 11:00AM Sydney
Dean Mantz. The ladies of LiveBinders along with Dean Mantz will be talking with Kelly Tenkely of ilearntechnology.com The discussion will be focusing on Blooms to inspire critical thinking and collaboration creatively using a variety of web 2.0 tools. Kelly will provide some insight to her methods of evaluating sites and tools before they are recommended to educators.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/125450

TEACHER-N-TEACHER: CONNECTING CLASSROOMS (MIDDLE SCHOOL PORTAL 2)
Thu 13 Jan 08:00PM New York / Fri 14 Jan 01:00AM GMT / Fri 14 Jan 12:00PM Sydney
Kimberly Lightle. Innovative classrooms today create opportunities for students to collaborate locally, nationally, or globally and empower them to forge new, purposeful academic relationships. This presentation provides educators with a framework that supports student learning communities around STEM concepts. Learn how to involve students in relevant, project-based learning with authentic audiences, nurture critical thinking, and facilitate the development of interpersonal and global communication skills.
http://www.learncentral.org/event/123975

A WOMAN'S WALK IN GRACE - CHAPTER 8 (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR)
Thu 13 Jan 08:30PM New York / Fri 14 Jan 01:30AM GMT / Fri 14 Jan 12:30PM Sydney
Catherine Martin. Join Catherine Martin and others worldwide for the Chapter 8 Discussion For A Woman's Walk In Grace Study. This study is open to all who want to discover the magnificence of God's extravagant grace and experience it for themselves. You will learn that grace is God's love in action and it is "the face that love wears when it meets imperfection, weakness, failure, sin. Grace is what love does and is when it meets the sinful and undeserving."
http://www.learncentral.org/event/100307

FEATURED TEACHER - ANNE MIRTSCHIN (CLASSROOM 2.0 LIVE)
Sat 15 Jan 12:00PM New York / Sat 15 Jan 05:00PM GMT / Sun 16 Jan 04:00AM Sydney
Kim Caise, Lorna Costantini and Peggy George. Join the Classroom 2.0 LIVE co-hosts for the latest session in the monthly Featured Teacher series with Anne Mirtschin of the Australia Series.
http://www.learncentral.org/node/129060

Friday, January 07, 2011

Live Interview on Tuesday Jan. 11 - Ira David Socol

Join me Tuesday, January 11th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Ira David Socol on education, reform, technology, and more.

Date: Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day--international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event and Recording Pagehttp://www.learncentral.org/event/127864

Ira David Socol is a Research and Teaching Assistant at Michigan State University.  Thomas Hanson at OpenEducation.net, in the introduction to an interview with Ira, described him and his work as follows:

"First, there is little doubt that Ira is passionate about education and the process of learning. More importantly, that passion is relentlessly focused on creating a learning process that is responsive to the needs of learners.

"Second, to be frank, Ira shares some of our views on how best to reform education. He notes that there are a multitude of ways to create positive learning opportunities for students but our current school structures prevent the flexibility necessary to provide alternate paths. Like OpenEducation.net, he is also a strong proponent of the use of technology yet does not buy into the “digital natives” nonsense.

"Third and perhaps most importantly, Ira is extremely courageous. He is unwavering in his support for students and is willing to step out on a limb if it means questioning the system. He is one of the rare individuals we have seen who has been willing to speak out about what he sees as fundamental flaws in programs like Teach for America and the KIPP school concept (Knowledge is Power Program).

"Ultimately, we believe it is important that everyone involved in education is familiar with his work."

Ira is the author of The Drool Room and the web site SpeEdChange.

The Drool Room