Web-Based Learning Opportunities

What is a web conference, you’re wondering?

There are many different kinds of web conferences (aka webcasts, web seminars or webinars), but most share the same basic format: An audio conference with Web-based visual aids. In other words, participants don’t usually see their presenters’ faces on their monitors, but they can hear their voices—either through their speaker phones or computer speakers—while watching the presenters’ slides or overheads on their computer monitors. Attendees can ask questions by typing them into a special Q and A section on their screens, and in some cases can forward questions to the moderator via phone.

As is true with any new technology, web conferences may sound intimidating at first, but nearly everyone who has participated in one agrees that they are extremely user friendly, requiring little or no “techno savvy” from you or your computer.

If you would like to recommend a topic for a webcast, please contact the membership services department at 614-310-7321 or membership@readingrecovery.org.

Coming August 6, 2008! Live Webcast for Reading Recovery Teachers and Teacher Leaders
Teaching for Powerful Processing
Presented by Reading Recovery trainers Janet Bufalino and Shannon Henderson

Prerecorded Web Conferences Now Available On Demand

Closing the Achievement Gap for English Language Learners
Presented by Yvonne and David Freeman
Originally recorded on April 17, 2008

A Comprehensive Intervention Design for Literacy Improvement: A Response to Intervention (RTI) Approach
Presented by Linda Dorn, Reading Recovery trainer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Recorded February 10, 2008 during the 2008 National Reading Recovery & K-6 Classroom Literacy Conference

How Opportunities in Washington Can Help Us Help Children
Aired live on November 15, 2007

What a Difference a Site Coordinator Makes!
Aired live on January 18, 2007

Letter and Word Learning in the Early Literacy Classroom
Presented by Maryann McBride, Reading Recovery teacher leader, Clemson University

What Counts As Evidence?
Presented by Dr. Richard Allington
Originally recorded on February 4, 2007