MSD Webinars for Professional Learning

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The Leadership and Learning Center's full array of resources to support educational professional development now includes webinars. Information covered in webinars can vary, covering such topics as instructional development, teacher support, leadership development, and more.

Upcoming webinars are shown first. Scroll down for the archives. Most of the webinars deal with digital citizenship, social media, cyberbullying, etc.

A variety of webinars. There is a focus on technology instruction.

Listen, watch, and learn from top experts in the field of reading. Our webcasts are available anytime that's convenient for you.

Featuring Dr. Cynthia Lundgren and Kristina Robertson discussing effective reading comprehension strategies for teaching English language learner students.

Delia Pompa: Hello. Welcome to this year's final show in the Reading Rockets teleconference series, Achieving Success in Reading. Today, we're going to be talking about teaching English language learners to read. In classrooms across the country, teachers need to teach reading to children who don't speak English, but most of our teachers have not been trained to do this.

Featuring Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussing effective classroom strategies for assessing English language learners. This webcast is made possible by AFT Teachers, a division of the American Federation of Teachers, as part of a Colorín Colorado partnership between AFT and Reading Rockets.

Many students encounter difficulty as they transition from "learning to read" to "reading to learn" in fourth grade, and this difficulty can be even more pronounced for English language learners. Featuring Dr. Nonie Lesaux, this webcast explores effective strategies for instruction and assessment that can help teachers support their ELL students.

Featuring Dr. Robin Scarcella, providing an overview to academic language instruction for English language learners, as well as teaching strategies, activity ideas, and recommended resources. For general information about our webcasts or to be part of our studio audience in Washington D.C., please click here. Delia Pompa: What is academic language?

At Quakertown High School, cyber teachers are using screencasting to teach students. Cyber students are using screencasting to teach other students. At Palisades High School, the library media specialist is creating screencast tutorials and posting them online for students, staff, and the public to use as a resource. The multimedia communications teacher is asking her students to develop screencasts to serve as tutorials or product comparisons. Screencasting is a tool that can be used by teachers or students to: *demonstrate any online or electronic process *provide feedback and/or assessment of an online document or presentation This webinar will show examples of various types of screencasts and teach you how to create a screencast and make it accessible to your students via digital curation or other methods. NOTE: You do need to enter your name and email address to attend, but once you enter that information, the webinar will start to play.

Introduction to the Library of CongressGet an overview of the digitized materials and K-12 resources from the Library of Congress. Supporting Inquiry with Primary Sources Teachers and students demonstrate how primary sources can be used to support inquiry learning. Inquiry encourages students to draw on their prior knowledge, personal experiences and critical thinking skills to construct meaning.

Social Media and Social Studies Social Studies involves itself with human communication and events. It seems that social media was developed to enhance and encourage the interactions of people.

Join us for a series of inspiring and informative webinars. Find new ways to enhance participation and collaboration and learn how to integrate SMART products into your schools. We're always adding new sessions, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to learn something new without leaving your desk - just log in to join.

Show and Tell - An Exclusive Tour of Teacher Learning Community Come see why over 75,000 teachers have joined this exciting new professional learning community for educators. For the first time ever, get an exclusive sneak peek inside the Teacher Learning Community.

How to Engage Students On-Line, Increase Participation and Improve Discussion

The 3rd Wednesday (the 3rd day of the week) at 3pm pst (SPARK Principle of 3's!) SPARK hosts a FREE webinar! Whether you are a seasoned SPARK Star, just learning about the program, or have an interest in the month's timely topic, this webinar series is for you!

Explore 21st-century education with Kinect for Xbox 360, and discover creative ways to keep students engaged, focused, and motivated. Discover how educators nationally are tapping into students' desire for interactive, fun, and challenging educational content.

Look for the "Thinkfinity Content Tours" to find a webinar tour of a website that relates to your subject area. If your subject area is tagged above, there is a webinar for you on this site!

This presentation is a joint venture between a classroom teacher, Jean Moore and instructional tech specialist, Robin Beaver.