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Free Media and Technology Webinars
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Are you looking for ways to incorporate digital media into your teaching?
PBS Teachers offers a series of FREE monthly webinars featuring leading education technology experts and PBS producers sharing resources and strategies to help teachers use digital media to engage students in rich learning experiences.
December 8, 2009:
Education in the Digital Age: a tour of FRONTLINE's Digital Nation
FRONTLINE producers have learned a lot during a year-long, multi-platform project exploring the impact of the Web and digital media on life in the 21st century. Join "Digital Nation" Producer Rachel Dretzin as she shares her insights and findings. PBS Teachers invites anyone interested in teaching about and with digital technology to join this FREE webinar touring FRONTLINE's Digital Nation website.
The Digital Nation Web site will include online video reports on how the Internet and technology are changing cultures, reshaping workplaces and creating new approaches to the way we solve problems. Issues to be examined include the Web’s impact on education, how social media has changed the way individuals interact, and Internet safety and privacy. Central to the site will be a mosaic of user-generated content designed to let visitors participate in the documentary process. The site also will feature a producers’ blog, embeddable video and other sharable content, and a schedule of live online events with expert guests.
For more information on FRONTLINE: Digital Nation, Life on the Digital Frontier, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/.
FRONTLINE's Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier
Tuesday, December 8, 8-9 p.m. ET
How Do I Participate?
Simply sign up to become a PBS Teacher and you will receive a webinar invite the week of the event.
PBS Teachers enjoy access to all of our FREE services, including the PBS Teachers online community, where preK-12 educators can collaborate with their peers, discuss digital media use, and "save" online instructional resources. Members of PBS Teachers also receive a 10% discount at the PBS Educational Media website.
About Our December 8th Guest Speaker: Rachel Dretzin
Rachel Dretzin is an award-winning journalist, Rachel has been producing documentaries for FRONTLINE since the mid-1990s. She and her husband, filmmaker Barak Goodman, are joint partners in Ark Media, a documentary production company based in Brooklyn, New York. Together, they have produced and directed numerous documentaries for FRONTLINE.
Webinar Co-Moderator: Steve Hargadon, Founder of Classroom 2.0
Steve Hargadon is the director of the K12 Open Technologies Initiative at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), and the founder of the Classroom 2.0 social network (www.classroom20.com). He blogs, speaks, and consults on educational technology, and is particularly passionate about Web 2.0, social networking, Free and Open Source Software, computer reuse, and computing for low-income populations. He runs the Open Source Pavilion and speaker series for the NECC and CUE shows, is the organizer of EduBloggerCon, and holds a series of free workshops around the country (Classroom 2.0 LIVE) to help educators learn about the educational uses of the participative aspect of the Web.
Webinar Calendar
November 10
PBS TeacherLine: Online Professional Development for Educators
PBS TeacherLine staff
Curriculum Connection: All Subjects
Access Recordings: Full version
November 17
Helping Kids Understand Viruses and Vaccinations with Sid the Science Kid
Child development and health experts
Curriculum Connection: Health
Access Recordings: Full version | Audio recording | Chat log | Portable video recording
December 8
Education in the Digital Age: FRONTLINE's "Digital Nation"
PBS producers and curriculum experts
Curriculum Connection: All Subjects
January 26, 2010
Middle Level STEM Education With "Design Squad," "Fetch," and DragonflyTV"
PBS producers and curriculum experts
Curriculum Connection: Science and Engineering
February 23, 2010
Exploring the "Faces of America"
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Curriculum Connection: History and Social Studies
Webinar Archives
For brief descriptions and recordings of past webinars, visit the archive page.