Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012
Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
Duration: One hour

The burden of managing accounts and access grows every year, as do the list of initiatives that IT is tasked with implementing. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), IDM (Identity Management), SSO (Single Sign-On): These acronyms often create uncertainty and doubt in IT departments, because they imply increased complexity, overhead, and management burden. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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When: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Time: 2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT
Duration: 1 hour
It’s no surprise that budgets get tighter every year – however, school IT departments can help cut costs by implementing a smart IT strategy. Aligning administrative, IT and educational goals is key when addressing the challenge of growing needs and shrinking budgets. Attend this webinar and discover the steps your IT department can take to help cut costs while still delivering great IT services to students and staff; including:

• Centralizing ticketing to improve efficiency and streamline IT processes
• Decreasing time spent fixing issues on-site, eradicating costly mileage reimbursements
• Understanding your network, allowing you to spend limited resources wisely
• Using power management & Wake-On-LAN, saving energy and money
• Allowing the administration to see the importance of technology within the school

And all before the next school year begins.

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Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
Sponsored by Identity Automation

Until recently, a K12 environment was primarily concerned with providing services to administrative staff. Now districts are providing services to teachers, students and in many cases parents but don’t really have the tools to scale their operations while maintaining adequate security. In this webinar, we will look at some of the practical issues K12 districts face today that center around account management and resource access and will talk to Spring ISD to learn more about their approach to these issues. Spring ISD is located in the Houston Metropolitan Area and has approximately 40,000 students and 5,300 staff.

You’ll learn:
1. How directly integrating data from the HR/SIS systems can greatly reduce IT burden and enhance IT services to the district
2. How implementing self-service tools increases security and user perception of IT services
3. How implementing Identity driven storage solutions can significantly impact the classroom (Digital Lockers)
4. How to add/leverage cloud based services without giving up control
5. How to leverage Workflow to (a) manage non-standard accounts, (b) implement privileged user management

Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT
Duration: One hour

Chromebooks for Education gives students, teachers, and administrators a solution for fast, intuitive, and easy-to-manage computing. With a central web-based management console for all devices, automatic maintenance and upgrades, and an 8 second boot-up time, Chromebooks are at home in the classroom (and beyond). This webinar will discuss the benefits, technical requirements, and pricing for setting up a Chromebook classroom at your school. You’ll hear from the Chromebooks team at Google and educators currently using Chromebooks with students.

You’ll learn:

• Overview of Chrome OS and Chromebooks
• Benefits of Chromebooks in classrooms
• Chromebook technical management capabilities
• Specific school use case solutions
• Pricing, support, and warranty details

Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Time: 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
Duration: One hour

Clickers can increase student engagement by going beyond simple quizzes.  Learn to write good questions, promote student discussion, and see research results on best practices. In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore tips and ideas for incorporating clickers into your particular class. Clickers offer a powerful way to increasing student engagement and improve learning. At my high school, I have transformed my classrooms by using clickers to promote peer instruction and personally written many of the questions I use. I’ll show research results on the most effective use of clickers, and discuss common challenges. In particular, I’ll focus on the attributes of “great” clicker questions, discuss example questions, and share ideas on facilitating effective wrap-up discussions once all the votes are in.

During the webinar, we will:

• articulate several (3-5) reasons why clicker technology can aid in student engagement
• articulate the 6 steps of using clickers effectively:  Writing learning goals, writing and asking a clicker question, encouraging peer discussion, requiring students to vote, facilitating whole class discussion, and using the information from this formative assessment to improve teaching.
• explain that clickers, when used with peer instruction, promote interactive engagement, which has been shown by several studies to improve student learning.
• articulate at least three practices that differentiate poor use of clickers from better use of clickers
• articulate at least three “best practices” in each of the following areas: writing effective clicker questions, facilitating peer discussion, and facilitating whole class discussion

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