NEW! ISTE Webinars for December
Posted by Diane Zoellmer on November 21st, 2008
ISTE has made some changes to its December webinar offerings, including the addition of a new session by Hall Davidson. Here are the new dates and topics:
- Wednesday, December 3 – Dr. Z’s Creative Cookbook for Collaborative Communication (Dr. Leigh Zeitz)
Join Dr. Z as he takes you on a tasty tour of on-line gadgets and gizmos to spice-up your learning and working environments through collaboration. We will explore the Web 2.0 tools that can be used to make your online world of learning and work more creative and productive. The collaborative tools of Google Docs, Forms and Presenter will be used to share and access information as well as provide an interactive chat forum for audience members during the presentation. Our menu will also include a variety of exotic-sounding entrees including Skype, Ning, Jing, and Twitter. This culinary cruise is designed to whet your appetite for new opportunities and stimulate your imagination about what is possible in today’s Web 2.0 kitchen.
- Thursday, December 4 – Copyright – From Nuts and Bolts to Web 2.0 (Hall Davidson)
The amount of intellectual property on the Web has exploded but the rules have remained the same since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) and the TEACH Act (2002). In this Webinar we will discuss the underlying fundamentals of Fair Use, copyright policy, and the classroom, and their application to digital content and the manipulation of tools in a Web 2.0 world. We’ll cover tips on copyright-safe searching (unavailable until recently), implications for content creation, and an exploration of what this means to wired classrooms. Classroom practitioners have both responsibilities and freedoms they are generally not aware of. Learn how these apply to the digital classroom. Also, hear the latest in copyright pro-active advocacy in the educational media from policy announcements on November 11, 2008. The webinar is hosted by Hall Davidson, whose published copyright guidelines hang on many classroom walls. Guests will include policy advocates and intellectual property experts.
- Tuesday, December 9 – Digital Citizenship for Parents (Mike Ribble)
How can parents keep up with all the new and ever-changing technologies that children take for granted? Parents often feel overwhelmed with the challenges and risks of this digital culture in children’s lives. They want their children to take advantage of all technology has to offer, however they also want them to stay safe and act responsibly. This webinar is an overview of the new and popular technologies that includes a discussion on how to help children become good digital citizens. This webinar is important for anyone with children at home or wants to understand more about the issues that are affecting them today.
- Tuesday, December 16 – From Toy to Tech Tool: Cell Phones in Learning (Liz Kolb)
How can parents keep up with all the new and ever-changing technologies that children take for granted? Parents often feel overwhelmed with the challenges and risks of this digital culture in children’s lives. They want their children to take advantage of all technology has to offer, however they also want them to stay safe and act responsibly. This webinar is an overview of the new and popular technologies that includes a discussion on how to help children become good digital citizens. This webinar is important for anyone with children at home or wants to understand more about the issues that are affecting them today.
All webinars are at 4:00 p.m. at Muskegon ISD and are free to all educators. You must register however on the ISD web site. Go to http://www.muskegonisd.org/development.
For more information about the ISTE webinars, click here.