Wednesday Webinar Series

The ICE Professional Development Committee is making plans for a new initiative to be launched later this year--a series of webinars created exclusively for ICE members. These special webinars will be an hour in length and will be free to ICE members. One hour of CPDU credit will be available to all educators who request the documentation for credit.

Wednesday Webinar #1: "How to Develop Your Own Personal Learning Network (PLN)
October 6, 2010
4:30 pm-5:30 pm

As educators face the growing challenge of trying to stay current with professional trends in their own fields of study as well as navigating the changing landscape of instructional technology resources, many people have already discovered the importance of developing and maintaining Personal Learning Networks. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the benefits of developing a PLN and suggest some strategies that will help participants to maintain and expand their online learning networks.

Sharon Peters is the Technology Coordinator at the American International School of Mozambique. Her research has focused on online collaborative learning for high school students and has worked as an independent consultant creating English Language Arts curricula for the online school in Quebec. During the summers of ’08, ‘09, and ‘10 she led teams who facilitated professional development workshops with Education Beyond Borders (formerly Teachers Without Borders Canada) for educators in the townships of South Africa and rural Kenya. Her students have participated in several award-winning international web-based collaborative projects with classes around the world using technology to support their learning goals. Sharon is also a founding member of Women of Web 2.0, now Women of Web 3.0, a webcast on the on the EdTechTalk Network.

Dr. Alec Couros is an Associate Professor of educational technology & media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina. He has given hundreds of workshops and presentations, nationally and internationally, on topics such as openness in education, social/networked learning, instructional design, digital citizenship, and critical media literacy. His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. You can learn more about Alec at http://couros.ca.

Registration for this webinar is free to all ICE members, but there is a limit of 40 spots, so if you would like to participate, please plan to register as soon as possible. Just click the link below to register online--if you have not yet created an ICE online account by attending the 2010 ICE Conference or submitting a proposal to be a conference presenter, you will need to do that first before you register:

Click Here to Register for Wednesday Webinar #1

 More information will be posted in the weeks ahead as the list of featured presenters and detailed descriptions of the second and third webinars are finalized. Here is the schedule of the final two webinars in the series:

January 26, 2011 (6:30 pm-7:30 pm):"Media Literacy"

May 18, 2011 (6:30 pm-7:30 pm):"Essentials of Online Learning"

The webinars will be offered in cooperation with National-Louis University and will be conducted with the use of an interactive online tool called Centra.