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Managing Remote IT Systems from Your Office: Five Tips for Education IT Directors
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time: 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 60 minutes
School districts today are charged with doing more with less. Expectations include collecting, managing, and applying data for assessment and decision-making as well as providing Web 2.0 tools and robust Web access from classrooms. In order to address the goals and needs of administrators, educators, and students, districts must have the most effective management systems in place. How does it work? Attend this webinar to find out the challenges, the solutions, and the results from IT administrators just like you who have automated key IT tasks, developed solid business processes and implemented best practices that they will share.
The speakers will showcase 5 tips that make a difference:
- How to protect endpoints
- How to eliminate data loss
- How to patch
- How to install/distribute new software
- How to discover and manage assets
Jared Henry, Network Engineer, Wills Point Independent School District
Gary Frenkel, IT Support Specialist, The Wharton School – Graduate Division
Gerald Beaulieu, IT Automation Expert, Kaseya
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Building a Successful e-Learning Strategy
Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session)
For all its hype, e-learning will never be successful without a supportive climate for learning, strong management support, a defensible business case and a training organization that isn't reticent about learning online. Learn why e-learning succeeds only when it is backed by an organization-wide e-learning strategy.
This overview presentation will give you an understanding of the essence of a sound e-learning strategy, and you’ll be able to define its key components. In addition, this session will introduce the growing importance of “learning 2.0,” and how it relates your emerging strategy, plus the value of building a sound learning culture to ensure your strategy is sustainable.
Finally, you’ll have the background to analyze your organization to determine where its e-learning strategy is faltering, and identify opportunities and priorities for enhancing it.
Key Topics Covered:
- What is an e-learning strategy and why do we need one?
- Basic sources and techniques for creating an e-learning strategy
- E-learning strategy mistakes and benefits.
- Key focus points for an e-learning strategy.
- Make your e-learning strategy sustainable.
Dr. Marc J. Rosenberg is a leading management consultant, speaker and educator in the fields of training, organizational learning, e-learning, knowledge management and performance improvement. He is the author of the best-selling books, E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age (McGraw-Hill), and Beyond E-Learning: Approaches and Technologies to Enhance Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Performance (Pfeiffer). His monthly column, "Marc My Words," appears in the eLearning Guild's Learning Solutions online magazine. Marc is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), and holds a Ph.D. in instructional design, plus degrees in communications and marketing. He also holds the Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) designation from ISPI.
Dr. Rosenberg has spoken at The White House, debated the future of e-learning at Oxford University, keynoted numerous professional and business conferences, authored more than 40 articles and book chapters in the field, and is a frequently quoted expert in major business and trade publications. He is an elected member of his local community's Board of Education. More information about Marc is available at http://www.marcrosenberg.com
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Technology Toys to Tools: Choosing, Using -- And Unconfusing in the World of Social Media
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Time: 10:00AM Pacific / 1:00PM Eastern (60 Minute Session)
Session Description:
This session explores business and, in particular, training uses for popular social media tools. We'll look at compelling real examples of tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogs and wikis used by businesses and government, discuss strategies for choosing and using particular tools. We'll also take a look at ways workplace learning professionals can reskill to support the use of new technologies in training as well as, more broadly, in organization-wide social learning.
About Jane Bozarth
Dr. Jane Bozarth has been a training practitioner since 1989. In her years with North Carolina, USA state government she has served as Staff Development Specialist for DHHS, the Training Director for the Department of Justice, and the E-Learning Coordinator for the NC Office of State Personnel.
Jane's specialty, finding low-cost ways of creating or purchasing quality e-learning solutions, led to publication of "E-Learning Solutions on A Shoestring" and "Better Than Bullet Points: Creating Engaging E-Learning with PowerPoint". Her third book, "From Analysis to Evaluation", was published in 2008. Her newest book will be out in the Fall of 2010.
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