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Members and participants in California League of Schools events and activities can take advantage of regularly scheduled free professional development webinars on critical topics for educators.

The following exceptional,  free professional development opportunities are presented by educational technologist Dr. Mark Wagner. Space is limited – sign up now!

Using Google Docs to Support Your PLC
Tuesday, February 16,  2010,  4:00-5:00 pm
Take your professional learning community to the next level by using Google Docs to collaborate with colleagues. Google Docs is a free  online office suite that allows you to create, edit, share  and publish documents, including spreadsheets and presentations. Because everything is stored and even modified on the web, Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with colleagues  –  and even  to edit the same document from multiple computers simultaneously.  

This session will focus on the use of Google Docs to promote and support collaboration within a PLC, including strategies for creating common assessments, sharing best practices, and capturing the conversation  –  even between meetings. Google Docs can  also  be used for data collection and analysis. This one tool can revolutionize  the way your PLC collaborates!

Supporting Student Subgroups: Collaboration with Google Docs
Wednesday, March 10,  2010,  4:00-5:00 pm
Google Docs is a free  online office suite that allows you to create, edit, share  and publish documents, including spreadsheets and presentations. Because everything is stored and even modified on the web, Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with colleagues  –  and  even  to edit the same document from multiple computers simultaneously.

This session will focus on the use of Google Docs to support at-risk students, including special education students, English Language Learners, and others that directly  affect your API. Learn strategies for differentiating instruction, documenting student learning, providing scaffolding with templates, and implementing frequent formative assessments (with immediate feedback)  –  plus much more. This one tool can  be invaluable  for your  support  of  at-risk students.

Classroom Management with Online Tools (Including Google Docs)
Wednesday,  April 14, 2010, 4:00-5:00 pm
Yes, free online tools can help with classroom management. Learn how you can move many of your management tasks online  –  and how you can help improve the classroom environment (and student behavior) by extending and building the classroom community online. This session will also cover the basics of moderating an online class (or hybrid online and face-to-face class), techniques that will be useful even in a traditional classroom. Collaborative tools such as Google Docs (and others) make this possible. Leave with strategies that work…in the 21st century.

Reserve your spot  – sign up now! 

If you have any questions about CLMS/CLHS Webinars, please contact Dr. Mark Wagner, educational technology coordinator for CLMS/CLHS, at mark@edtechlife.com
or (949) 394-6071.