Ep 39 Webinar Powersurge PART 2 Free Webinar Resources, for Classes and Virtual

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RESOURCES and Items Mentioned in this Episode!

The 2nd installment of a resource packed 2-part episode which provides teaching resources, debates for  virtual education, increasing conference participation and collaboration with reduced travel budgets. Free webinar resources and how to use them for all sorts of educational settings! Webinar plartofrms are not JUST for virtual meetings! Great discussion from Mark and Kathy about Strategies for Stretching Stimulus Money for schools and teachers! Focus on virtual education using a variety of tools, strategies and opportunities. Resources include a detailed comparison of free and paid resources for webinars, free conference calls and virtual tools. Make us the center of YOUR Ed Tech Universe: www.teacherspodcast.org.

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Mark Gura’s ISTE Webinar Presentation    

“Using Technology to Make Every Classroom an Art Classroom”

April 22, 2009 ISTE Webinar Link

 

 

WEBINARRESOURCES and Items mentioned in this Episode!

 Webinar platforms enable you to host your own synchronous learning space!

• Dimdim.com - (free basic, $ paid version too)   
  • FREE available up to 25 people www.dimdim.com
    • Presentation, whiteboard, desktop and web sharing space
    • Webcam hookup, phone connection for audio or via computer
    • FREE recording included!

• Adobe Connect ($$)
  •  Basic version ($)
  • Pro version ($$)

• Readytalk.com (free basic, $ paid version too)
  • www.readytalk.com
  • Thanks to Dr. Mev Miller of WE LEARN for handing off this resource tip to Kathy

• Yugma.com (free basic, $ paid version too)
  •  www.yugma.com
• More Webinar Discussions from The Teachers Podcast
  • TTPOD Episode 37 and
  • TTPOD Episode 38

OTHER RESOURCES

• Twitter.com
  • Twitterverse…
  • Tweets, twitter.. Twittermania?
  • Follow us on Twitter to get instant updates on ed tech resources and issues

FROM  PART 1 ( Episode 38 we discussed the following– check it out if you missed it!)

Stimulus Money May Fund Summer School, Teacher Pay

• Discussion by Mark and Kathy about the great potential to use this money to “keep on giving/teaching” faculty years ahead!
• Education Secretary Arne Duncan has some suggestions for how schools can spend their windfall from the economic stimulus law, including summer school and extra pay for teachers to coach struggling colleagues. The nation’s schools will get an unprecedented amount of money — about $100 billion, double the amount of education spending under President George W. Bush — over the two-year life of the new stimulus law. The Obama administration has said generally how it wants the money spent, and it has warned states not to use the money to plug budget holes, despite loopholes created by Congress that would allow that to happen… Read more…
• Strategies for Stretching stimulus money

NEWS FLASH I

Learning without limits
How the rise of online instruction is changing the nature of schooling
By Christine Van Dusen

Primary Topic Channel: Virtual schooling / Distance Learning

Teachers Podcast will be available in Schooltube.com soon.

Some short videos introducing our series and the podcasting book check it out about 4/28/09!

Watch for further details in a few days!

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