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Recorded Webinars
Topic: The Covid-19 Impact: The Transition To Virtual Learning
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 23 April 2020
The sudden closure of schools and universities across the globe due to COVID - 19 has necessitated the impletation of online learning. The entire education professional learning community has been collaborating and are working hard to identify key practices for successful online learning. Join our dinstinguished group of panelist to hear what the impact of Covid-19 has had on the transition from traditional to virtual learning.
Topic: Teaching online - if the tech fails and structuring lessons
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 80 minutes
Aired: 11 March 2020
This is the second in a series of three webinars, which offers guidance in key areas. This webinar focuses on:
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What to do if the technology fails and transferring some of the course elsewhere
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Lesson structure and task-types
Topic: Teaching online - supporting and mentoring teachers remotely
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 5 April 2020
How do you manage a teaching team without a bricks-and-mortar meeting point? How do you maintain engagement and motivation for teachers working from home? This webinar will consider the challenges and make practical suggestions for supporting a dispersed and remote teaching team.
Topic: Teaching online - tech tools and the tutor's role
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 1hr 30 minutes
Aired: 13 March 2020
This is the third in a series of three webinars, which offers guidance in key areas. This webinar focuses on: Different tech tools and how to use them Tutor presence in an online course
Topic: Online Teaching and Young Learners - making the most of the situation
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 80 minutes
Aired: 6 April 2020
The world has been put on hold but education continues. As teachers we have been faced with this immense hurdle to adapt our teaching for the online world. We are succeeding but is there anything else we can do? How can we adapt our teaching for young learners? Join me in this session where we will be looking at different activities and strategies to keep young learners engaged.
Topic: Webinar 2 - A Changed Mindset
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 40 minutes
Aired: 9 April 2020
In our second webinar, we will remind ourselves of the kind of mindset we need during the Covid-19 crisis, we will focus on proactive coping and we will use an active imagination activity to release fear.
Topic: Webinar 3 - Maintaining a Change Mindset
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 50 minutes
Aired: 17 April 2020
In our third webinar, we will remind ourselves of the mindset we need during the Covid-19 crisis, how negativity and happiness work in difficult times and we will do an activity to assist us in maintaining our Change Mindsets.
Topic: Distance Teaching and Learning: Useful Tips for Making it Work with Dr Ken Beatty
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 25 minutes
Aired: 18 March 2020
Online teaching and remote learning are increasing globally, so how do you make it work for both educator and learner? In this webinar Dr. Ken Beatty, an expert on online teaching and learning, focuses on the needs of teachers and learners of all ages and at all levels. He explores how to get organized, plan effectively, stay motivated and keep learners engaged and answer key questions about online distance learning.
Topic: PEARDECK: LEVEL UP TRAINING (various topics)
Audience: Teachers
Duration: depending
Aired: various dates
From webinars to custom professional development sessions, there are lots of ways to learn about Pear Deck and our team of educators is here to help! Whether you’re an administrator or a classroom teacher, we have virtual and pre-recorded webinars that can help you get started.
Topic: Enabling Distance Learning with G Suite and Chrome
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 9 March 2020
How might educators leverage powerful tools to extend learning to home environments? Join Jennie Magiera, Global Head of Education Impact, as we outline common challenges, and offer quick tips for implementing distance learning through technology.
Topic: Getting started with G Suite
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 27 March 2020
This session features an outline of the G Suite for Education onboarding process, an overview of Google Classroom and stories from two MATs who use G Suite as the core of their distance learning strategy.
Topic: Using Google Classroom and Hangouts Meet for Distance Learning
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 1 April 2020
This webinar showcases how Google Classroom and Hangouts Meet can be used for distance learning, as well as featuring a primary school and FE College on how they are using the tools to facilitate distance learning.
Topic: Using Google Sites and Google Forms for Distance Learning
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 2 April 2020
This webinar showcases how Google Sites and Google Forms can be used to facilitate distance learning. You will hear from 2 schools who are currently using both tools to continue learning at home for their students.
Topic: Google Meet: Teaching students remotely with video conferencing
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 23 April 2020
Find out how to use Hangouts Meet to create video calls and invite your entire class. We will also share how to livestream and record lessons as well as share the latest updates from to tool.
Topic: Google Classroom: Communicate and engage with students
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 minutes
Aired: 22 April 2020
During this webinar, we look into using Google Classroom to set assignments, encourage collaboration, and support communication with students when teaching from home. We also hear from Outwood Grange Academies Trust and how they are using Classroom for distance learning.
Topic: Microsoft Teams for Education
Audience: Teachers
Duration: depending
Aired: various dates
Missed a webinar and want to catch up? You can watch On Demand recordings of our most popular sessions here. The content covers best practices using Microsoft Teams as the digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. Hosted directly by the Microsoft Teams Product Group, please pick from the options below that is best suited to you.
Topic: Zoom Meetings for Education (Students & Educators)
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 45min - 1 hour
Aired: starting 29 April
In this session you will learn:
1) How to download the Zoom applications and join a Zoom meeting;
2) How to schedule a meeting and send out invitations;
3) In-meeting controls and differentiation tools (including the waiting room, share screen, breakout rooms).
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Topic: Getting started with Seesaw in grades 3 to 5
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 45min - 1 hour
Aired: 20 August 2019
Designed for 3rd-5th grade teachers who are brand new to Seesaw, this hands-on session will go step by step from downloading the app to getting started. We will explore the creative tools within Seesaw, and you will experience Seesaw from the student perspective adding posts during our session. We recommend you have two devices.
1) From a computer, join the webinar.
2) On a second device, install the app Seesaw: The Learning Journal.
No need to create an account, just install the free app. If your second device is a computer, just go to the website app.seesaw.me.
Topic: Getting started with Seesaw in grades 6 to 12
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 45min - 1 hour
Aired: 20 August 2019
Designed for 6th-12th grade teachers who are brand new to Seesaw, this hands-on session will go step by step from downloading the app to getting started. We will explore the creative tools within Seesaw, and you will experience Seesaw from the student perspective adding posts during our session. We recommend you have two devices.
1) From a computer, join the webinar.
2) On a second device, install the app Seesaw: The Learning Journal.
No need to create an account, just install the free app. If your second device is a computer, just go to the website app.seesaw.me.
Topic: Moodle 3.8 Complete Tutorial for Teachers and Creating Online Courses
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 3 hours
Aired: 2 January 2020
This is the complete tutorial on Moodle 3.8 for teachers. The tutorial starts with the very basics and covers advanced features used in online courses using the Moodle 3.x platform. The concepts covered here apply for all versions of Moodle.
Topic: TiLT Webinar with Ceri Anwen James: ‘Interactive quizzing for Distance Learning’
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 1 h 45min
Aired: 21 May 2020
In this session, Ceri Anwen James (@CeriAnwen) will look at various options for quizzing that pupils can undertake from home, as regular homework or as distance learning. She will look at different types of questions that check understanding and that could be incorporated into a wider departmental assessment for learning strategy. The webinar will also look at some pupils’ favourites, and you will learn how they can be set up as homework.
Topic: Getting Started with Flipgrid for Remote Learning
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 1 hour 15 min
Aired: 23 May 2020
Join Jornea, Jess, and Ann as they share everything you need to know to get started with Flipgrid! During the session, we'll explain the what, why, and how Flipgrid, can bring engagement into your classroom.
Topic: The Flipped Classroom
Audience: Teachers
Duration: 60 min
Aired: 29 June 2020
When students are learning from home, normal school practice can be turned on its head. Flipped Learning is ideally suited to this situation with its focus on independent learning and activities.
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