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Blackboard Connect 5 New Features & Enhancements Webinar
Friday, February 10, 2012 10:15 AM US Eastern
This web seminar will explore the many new and exciting features and enhancements of Blackboard Connect's completely redesigned platform, Connect 5.
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K-12 Office Hours for Blackboard Learn
Monday, February 13, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
The Blackboard K-12 team wants to help ensure that our clients have successful implementations of Blackboard Learn. All K-12 Learn, ANGEL, and WebCT/Vista clients are invited to participate.
The purpose of weekly K-12 Office Hours is to help clients:
• Connect with and learn best practices from peer schools and districts
• Optimize your implementation of Blackboard
• Troubleshoot and solve problems
• Have a direct voice into Blackboard, thereby enabling Blackboard to be more responsive to your needs
We hope that the weekly office hours session will provide you with added support, greater insight, and more opportunities to collaborate with your peers, fostering more success with Blackboard Learn.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 (Europe)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:00 AM US Eastern
Join Dan Peters (Senior Manager, Blackboard Solutions Engineering) on an interactive session to learn what is new in Blackboard Learn 9.1, Service Pack 8:
• Improving efficiency for instructors and administrators
• Increasing insight into learning
• Making it easier to integrate with other systems through open standards
All this and a fresh new look that users will love.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Educators (Higher Ed)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
For educators and instructors interested in learning about the latest functionality within Blackboard Learn, SP8, and how it facilitates more effective and efficient teaching, this presentation is for you.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Administrators
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Looking for a more technical overview of the features in SP8? Attend this webinar for system administrators that focuses around the nuts and bolts of our latest service pack.
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Meeting Today’s Budget Cut Challenge With Blended Learning
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Military Education schools that move online have an opportunity to greatly increase accessibility, through-put, and cost-savings.
Moving to an online model can seem challenging - whether you’re using:
* online tools to complement classroom-based courses
* hybrid courses that blend online and face-to-face delivery or
* Web-only courses
the most successful military institutions are using highly collaborative technology to impact their mission in and out of the classroom.
Topic: Meeting Today’s Budget Cut Challenge With Blended Learning
Speaker: David Palmer, National e-Learning Consultant for DoD/ Intell., Blackboard
Date: Feb. 15th 2-3 PM EST
David Palmer draws on 8+ years of enterprise technology consulting experience; he has spent the last 4 years on advancing learning at Military and Intelligence education institutions. David will share first-hand models of military institutions transforming their e-learning programs and delivering an impact on their mission. If you are challenged with sustaining great military training throughout these difficult times – this session is the place to start.
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Connecting in the 21st Century: Parents and Administrators Speak Up about Effective School to Home Communications
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:00 PM US Eastern
Since 2007, Project Tomorrow has partnered with Blackboard Inc. to create a series of annual reports that focus on key trends in the use of technology to increase student achievement and parental engagement. One trends identified through Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up Research Project is the growing need for more effective, timely and targeted communications betweenschool and home. Increasingly, innovative schools and districts are tapping into the power of emerging communications technology solutions to ensure safety and security, to engage parents in the learning process, to enhance student achievement, and to improve overall staff productivity. In this special free webinar hosted by Blackboard, Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow will review the key findings from this new report that identifies the usagepatterns and value proposition around home-to-school communications from the different viewpoints of administrators, teachers and parents. As administrators strive to engage parents as co-teachers in the learning process, this report and the Speak Up data findings can provide a new roadmap for understanding the potential of communicationstechnology solutions to drive enhanced student achievement.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 (Europe)
Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:00 AM US Eastern
Join Dan Peters (Senior Manager, Blackboard Solutions Engineering) on an interactive session to learn what is new in Blackboard Learn 9.1, Service Pack 8:
• Improving efficiency for instructors and administrators
• Increasing insight into learning
• Making it easier to integrate with other systems through open standards
All this and a fresh new look that users will love.
Enroll
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Educators (K-12)
Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
For K-12 educators and instructors interested in learning about the latest functionality within Blackboard Learn, SP8, and how it facilitates more effective and efficient teaching, this presentation is for you.
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Blackboard Connect 5 New Features & Enhancements Webinar
Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:00 AM US Eastern
This web seminar will explore the many new and exciting features and enhancements of Blackboard Connect's completely redesigned platform, Connect 5.
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K-12 Office Hours for Blackboard Learn
Monday, February 20, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
The Blackboard K-12 team wants to help ensure that our clients have successful implementations of Blackboard Learn. All K-12 Learn, ANGEL, and WebCT/Vista clients are invited to participate.
The purpose of weekly K-12 Office Hours is to help clients:
• Connect with and learn best practices from peer schools and districts
• Optimize your implementation of Blackboard
• Troubleshoot and solve problems
• Have a direct voice into Blackboard, thereby enabling Blackboard to be more responsive to your needs
We hope that the weekly office hours session will provide you with added support, greater insight, and more opportunities to collaborate with your peers, fostering more success with Blackboard Learn.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Educators (Higher Ed)
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
For educators and instructors interested in learning about the latest functionality within Blackboard Learn, SP8, and how it facilitates more effective and efficient teaching, this presentation is for you.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Administrators
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Looking for a more technical overview of the features in SP8? Watch this presentation for system administrators that focuses around the nuts and bolts of our latest service pack.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 for Educators (K-12)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
For K-12 educators and instructors interested in learning about the latest functionality within Blackboard Learn, SP6, and how it facilitates more effective and efficient teaching, this presentation is for you.
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Blackboard Learn: What's New in SP8 (APAC)
Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:00 PM US Eastern
Interested in learning about the latest functionality within Blackboard Learn, SP8? This presentation is for you.
Specifically for our clients in the Asia/Pacific regions.
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Managed Hosting 101 - Overview of Managed Hosting Resources & Processes
Friday, February 24, 2012 11:00 AM US Eastern
General overview of the major MH processes. Reviewed will be the processes surrounding the best utilization of the various resources available to you.
• What you should consider when upgrading.
• What are patches?
• Archiving what, when and why?
• Managing your contracted disk usage.
• Working with and building a strong partnership with support.
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New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 1
Monday, February 27, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
K-12 New Client Adoption Cohort Session 1 - Course Design.
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K-12 Office Hours for Blackboard Learn
Monday, February 27, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
The Blackboard K-12 team wants to help ensure that our clients have successful implementations of Blackboard Learn. All K-12 Learn, ANGEL, and WebCT/Vista clients are invited to participate.
The purpose of weekly K-12 Office Hours is to help clients:
• Connect with and learn best practices from peer schools and districts
• Optimize your implementation of Blackboard
• Troubleshoot and solve problems
• Have a direct voice into Blackboard, thereby enabling Blackboard to be more responsive to your needs
We hope that the weekly office hours session will provide you with added support, greater insight, and more opportunities to collaborate with your peers, fostering more success with Blackboard Learn.
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New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 2
Monday, March 05, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
K-12 New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 2 - Communication with Stakeholders
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K-12 Office Hours for Blackboard Learn
Monday, March 05, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
The Blackboard K-12 team wants to help ensure that our clients have successful implementations of Blackboard Learn. All K-12 Learn, ANGEL, and WebCT/Vista clients are invited to participate.
The purpose of weekly K-12 Office Hours is to help clients:
• Connect with and learn best practices from peer schools and districts
• Optimize your implementation of Blackboard
• Troubleshoot and solve problems
• Have a direct voice into Blackboard, thereby enabling Blackboard to be more responsive to your needs.
We hope that the weekly office hours session will provide you with added support, greater insight, and more opportunities to collaborate with your peers, fostering more success with Blackboard Learn.
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Maximize Efficiencies, Cut Costs, and Increase Opportunities for Students with Education Technology
Tuesday, March 06, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Hear from two K-12 school districts as they discuss the ways that they use Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Collaborate to improve teaching and learning for both students and teachers. The same technologies can be used to help train teachers and staff, as well as provide multiple engaging learning opportunities for students. Idaho Digital Learning Academy and Cobb County School District have successfully created personalized learning environments for their students in addition to providing teachers with more collaborative tools and resources - all the while saving time and resources.
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New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 3
Monday, March 12, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
K-12 New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 3 - Measuring Success
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What Openness Means
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 12:00 PM US Eastern
Blackboard is committed to providing an open, extensible learning management system that allows clients the flexibility to customize in order to fit the needs of their institution. Our open approach extends to the way we work with our clients to build our technology.
Join David Ashman, Principal Architect for Blackboard Learn, to learn more about the Blackboard approach to openness, including:
- Open API, for third party developers to extend the Learn platform through the Building Blocks program
- Open standards that define non-proprietary solutions for common problems and provide end users a broader choice through multiple vendors
- Open database to enable client access to and understanding of the data and structures in your installation
- Open community to share roadmap information and empower users to shape ongoing product development
- Open education initiatives to support clients to share and license course resources
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Edison Township Public Schools in the Palm of Your Hand
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Edison Township Public Schools is changing the way schools in the district engage with parents and the Edison community with the release of their new mobile application, "My Edison." With more than 15,000 students across 17 schools in New Jersey, the district has a diverse demographic of students and families that "My Edison" will help to better serve.
"My Edison" provides mobile access to everything from directories to maps and district-wide events, as well as the district’s Parent Portal, giving parents the ability to securely access information on their child's schedules, grades, and attendance – whenever and wherever they are.
Join us for this webinar to hear Superintendent Richard O’Malley speak about the role that parental engagement plays in K-12 education, and how providing parents with mobile access to the information they need is a necessary step to help them stay involved in their children's education.
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New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 4
Monday, March 19, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
K-12 New Client Adoption Cohort, Session 3 - Bb Partners
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Behind the Scenes: Blackboard’s Focus on User Experience
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:00 PM US Eastern
The team behind Blackboard Learn is focused on delivering the best possible product experience, and that focus is a strong element of the new release, Service Pack 8.
A fresh design brings essential tools to the forefront, reduces clutter, and makes life easier for teachers and learners. Simplified workflows make course creation and management more intuitive, and more customizable.
Hear directly from the team responsible for the Blackboard experience about how customer collaboration, user research, usability studies and a little design inspiration come together to shape the new Blackboard Learn
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Independent Schools use Blended Learning for College Preparedness and Student Success
Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Independent schools are challenged with maintaining admissions standards, keeping parents involved, and providing students with exposure to the tools that will make them successful at universities. Many of today’s independent school leaders are discovering ways to use technology to overcome this wide range of daily challenges. With their blended learning solution, they are able to personalize the education experience for each learner, keep parents and the community engaged, and provide exposure to the tools and resources used in college.
Join us for this webinar to learn how Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, AZ, and Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, CA use blended learning to keep their competitive edge, to enable students for maximum success in college and beyond, and to communicate constantly with parents and the community.
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Managed Hosting 101 - Overview of Managed Hosting Resources & Processes
Friday, March 23, 2012 11:00 AM US Eastern
General overview of the major MH processes. Reviewed will be the processes surrounding the best utilization of the various resources available to you.
• What you should consider when upgrading.
• What are patches?
• Archiving what, when and why?
• Managing your contracted disk usage.
• Working with and building a strong partnership with support.
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Large Districts Use Blended Learning to Expand Resources and Impact Student Success
Tuesday, April 03, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Consistently improving achievement and creating personalized learning experiences for all students is of the utmost importance among K-12 districts. But serving a large student population with limited staff and resources is a common challenge. With e-learning technology districts can leverage expertise throughout the district to create courses, share content and facilitate communication within the community while keeping students engaged and excited about education.
Hear from two large K-12 districts that have successfully implemented blended learning to expand resources for teachers and staff and to create a personalized education experience for students.
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The Evolution and Future of K-12 Online Learning
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 2:00 PM US Eastern
Online learning among K-12 schools and districts is growing and evolving rapidly. With fewer resources, higher standards, and an increased focused on personalizing the education experience for students, more districts are turning to blended learning and virtual programs. Join us for this webinar to hear from John Watson from the Evergreen Education Group, publishers of the “Keeping Pace Report,” about online learning trends in the United States – from the district level, to the state level and virtual schools. Discussion topics will include an overview of blended learning models, keys to building successful online programs, and the importance of quality and accountability. Mr. Watson will be joined by Alisa Jones, Supervisor of Instructional Resources at Clay Virtual Academy, who will share the challenges and successes of building a blended learning program for the students in Clay County.
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