Google's Chromebook Classrooms‏ - Webinar

Chromebooks for Education gives students, teachers, and administrators a solution for fast, intuitive, and easy-to-manage computing. With a central web-based management console for all of your Chromebooks, automatic maintenance and upgrades, and an 8 second boot-up time, Chromebooks for Education are at home in the classroom (and beyond). This webinar will discuss everything you need to know to set up a Chromebook classroom in your school – from the product and its benefits to technical requirements and pricing. You'll hear from the Chromebooks team at Google and educators currently using Chromebooks with students.

Bullet points on what you will learn:

• Overview of Chromebooks 
• Benefits of Chromebooks in classrooms
• Chromebook management
• Specific school use case solutions
• Pricing, support, and warranty detail

Presenters:

Jeff Keltner, Head of Sales and Business Development, ChromeOS, Google Enterprise 

Jaime Casap, Senior Education Evangelist, ChromeOS and Google Apps for Education, Google, Enterprise

Wednesday October 12, 2011 | 1 pm PST / 4 pm EST

http://www.techlearning.com/article/Chromebook-Classrooms-/50561

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Web 3.0 and Mobile Learning Technologies - Webinar

On the webcast registration page, click "REGISTER" at the bottom. The password is astd, all lower case.

Web 3.0 and Mobile Learning Technologies Webinar combines two recent research reports focused on how technology has influenced the learning function. David Wentworth, Senior Research Analyst with i4cp, will discuss the various components of Web 3.0 and how they might influence the future of learning, with an emphasis on the practices of high-performance organizations.

More specifically, the webinar also looks at mobile learning answering the questions what does mobile learning mean for learning professionals and the learning function? How will it affect instructional design? What influence, if any, will device manufacturers, platform providers, and software developers have on mobile learning’s future?

This webinar has been rescheduled for Thursday, October 13th at 1pmEDT.
Free to ASTD members and nonmembers.

http://www.astd.org/content/research/Research+Webinars.htm?CustomerNumber=10765384

2011 Learning & Workplace Technology Trends

Which trends are real and which are fads? Join this session and hear Joe’s predictions and advice on which trends you should be investing in now. Learning practitioners will join the debate and discuss: Cloud vs SaaS; The future of learning systems; Re-engineering education in the mobile & YouTube world; and The value of extended enterprise learning.

Date: Thursday, November 3rd

Time: 10:00 AM PT/ 1:00 PM ET

Speaker: Joe DiDonato, Editor-at-Large, Elearning! Media Group

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/589987938



Moving to the Virtual Classroom: A Trainer's Roadmap to Success

Have you been asked to deliver virtual training but aren't sure where to start? That's normal - preparing for a virtual training is a lot different than prepping for one that's happening a few feet away.

In this highly interactive session, you will learn how to build a training session aimed specifically at a virtual audience. You will leave the session with an action plan for preparing your own training sessions and a road map to assess yourself against those steps.

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

• Follow 7 key steps to become an effective virtual classroom trainer.
• Apply classroom delivery techniques to the virtual classroom.
• Create an individual action plan for migrating from the physical to the virtual classroom.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 11:00 am PDT/ 2:00 pm ET

Speakers: Cindy Huggett, CPLP

http://learn.gototraining.com/forms/100511-NA-G2T-WBRARC-L1?ID=701000000005nvN

Education at a Glance 2011: OECD Indicators - Book

Across OECD countries, governments are having to work with shrinking public budgets while designing policies to make education more effective and responsive to growing demand.

The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a broad array of comparable indicators on education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure the current state of education internationally.

The indicators show who participates in education, how much is spent on it, and how education systems operate. They also illustrate a wide range of educational outcomes, comparing, for example, student performance in key subjects and the impact of education on earnings and on adults’ chances of employment.

The Excel™ spreadsheets used to create the tables and charts in this book are available via the StatLinks printed in this book.

New material in this edition includes:

• an analysis of tuition-fee reforms implemented since 1995;
• indicators on the relationship between social background and learning outcomes;
• indicators on school accountability in public and private schools;
• an indicator on the fields of education chosen by students;
• an indicator on labour market outcomes of students from vocational and academic programmes;
• indicators on the scope of adult education and training;
• indicators on student engagement in reading.  

More :

http://www.oecd.org/document/2/0,3746,en_2649_39263238_48634114_1_1_1_1,00.html

YouTube Launches New Site for Teachers

There are thousands of inspirational and educational videos on YouTube right now. Many are perfect for your classroom. Knowing this, YouTube has created a new site that curates these videos and organizes them into an easier-to-find system that’s perfect for teachers.

YouTube Teachers is a brand new channel that displays helpful videos on teaching and learning about basically everything. If it’s a lesson plan or teaching tool, it’s probably on YouTube Teachers. Below you’ll see a few of our favorite videos that were surfaced by browsing the new YouTube Teacher site.

http://www.youtube.com/teachers

The source :

http://edudemic.com/2011/09/youtube-teachers/

How Reading Online Improves Learning - Webinar

Web-based learning provides the individualized instruction to meet each child's learning progress. In this Webinar, you will learn how adaptive online reading Instruction improves comprehension scores in grades 3-5. You'll hear from the program developer and an educator whose students use these materials to understand what they read and improve their scores.

Presenter:

Jim Ferranti, Program Specialist, San Bernardino City Unified School District

Also Presenting:

Dr. Marta Leon, Director of Instructional Development, Headsprout

Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM EDT
Duration: 60 minutes

http://www.techlearning.com/article/Improving-Reading-Comprehension-Thru-Adaptive-On-line-Instruction/50562