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Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning

Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 14:53

Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning is an interactive forum for district-level personnel charged with maximizing the effectiveness of technology in education. This October we’re bringing this unique event to both Washington, DC, and the Greater Boston area.
Engage with our expert keynoters and learn from their experience in driving districtwide ed-tech advances.
In this one-day forum, you will discover the benefits of customizing student learning with proven ed-tech strategies. Discussions will include:

Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning

Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 14:52

Unleashing Technology to Personalize Learning is an interactive forum for district-level personnel charged with maximizing the effectiveness of technology in education. This October we’re bringing this unique event to both Washington, DC, and the Greater Boston area.
Engage with our expert keynoters and learn from their experience in driving districtwide ed-tech advances.
In this one-day forum, you will discover the benefits of customizing student learning with proven ed-tech strategies. Discussions will include:

Midwest Consortium's 7th Annual Conference: Transformational Service-Learning

Submitted by servicewire on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:45

The Midwest Consortium for Service-Learning in Higher Education (MCSLHE) invites presenters and participants to its seventh annual conference on service-learning to be held October 1 - 2, 2010 on the campus of Doane College at Crete, Nebraska. The theme for this conference is "Transformational Service-Learning."
Conference sessions will highlight projects that illustrate how transformation can be an intended outcome of service-learning. Such projects might have elements of these components:

BoardSource Leadership Forum

Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 12:32

Open for Innovation: Governing in a New Era
A wide variety of trends and events are fueling boardroom deliberations today. As a result, nonprofit leaders everywhere are taking new approaches to governance with great results.
The 2010 BoardSource Leadership Forum will focus on exploring these key developments. For two days, governance's brightest thinkers and practitioners will gather to share their insights, ideas, and solutions to the challenges we face.
About the Forum

Professional Grant Development Workshop: Master the techniques of writing superior and winning proposals

Submitted by servicewire on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 15:00

This intensive three-day grant proposal workshop is geared for: 1) those who wish to strengthen their grant writing skills and 2) beginners who wish to acquire and master the techniques of preparing, writing and winning proposals from various funding agencies. The center of attention will be on how to effectively tell the story that leads to funding, be it for the researcher in the sciences and social sciences, educator and non-profit professional.
Participants Will Learn How To:
• Comprehend the diversity of the grant funding community

Youth Leadership Conference

Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 17:50

We invite you to join us in Columbus, Ohio, October 22–24, 2010, for the fourth Habitat Youth Leadership Conference: Habitat 360. These three days will be full of workshops, speakers, and networking opportunities. Connect with other leaders from across the country, share ideas and get inspired.
This year’s theme focuses on the many different ways Habitat builds around the world, from microfinance to Neighborhood Revitalization to green building. The conference will also strengthen your knowledge on Habitat fundamentals, fundraising, advocacy and activities to engage youth.

Face-to-Face: 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

Submitted by servicewire on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 17:29

Registration and Housing Are Now Open!
You can register now for the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference and choose from the full variety of preconference seminars, make a reservation at a hotel of your choice, and take advantage of reduced early-bird rates.
This event brings together the best thinking in higher education IT and provides you the opportunity to:
•Network with peers who share similar interests and concerns
•Explore 7 tracks, more than 250 sessions, and over 200 exhibitors

VolunTheory Summer Live Lectures

Submitted by servicewire on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 12:05

VolunTheory's Summer Live Lecture Series is now open for registration!
Be inspired. Be informed. Align your volunteer workforce with organizational goals! Join us at the Commonwealth Museum at Columbia Point in Boston for one or three full days of lectures. You’ll discover the “underbelly” of volunteer motivations, be able to immediately implement diverse organizational communication methods, identify current practices that just don’t work anymore, and so much more.
SERVING TO SUCCEED – Tuesday, July 13, 2010
- A Portrait of the American Volunteer

7th Annual Service Learning Texas Summer Institute 2010

Submitted by servicewire on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 17:29

Service Learning Texas is proud to announce its 7th Annual Summer Institute. The annual Service Learning Texas Summer Institute is a key event for educators, youth and community members in Texas who are interested in service-learning, the thoughtful integration of community service with rigorous classroom learning. Each year the Summer Institute provides the kind of quality professional development that “has the ability to change lives” according to one student attendee.

Advanced Volunteer Management Institute

Submitted by servicewire on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 16:52

Advanced Volunteer Management Institute
June 26-27, 2010
Sheraton New York and Towers
Cost: $200 ($150 for HandsOn Network members)

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