Director's Blog: The Value of Virtual

21st Century Leaders and Learners:

LEARN NC (http://www.learnnc.org/) and NCVPS have been partners for the last three years in providing innovative programming for North Carolina educators and stakeholders. Recently, my Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chanin Rivenbark and I were asked to do two separate webinars from our GO LIVE effort (http://sites.google.com/site/ncvpsgolive/) for 30 Chief Technology Officers around the state as a part of LEARN NC's partnerships with the School of Government's CeCTO program http://www.sog.unc.edu/.

The focus of these webinars is how students and teachers use Web 2.0 for learning, with some discussion of open source, cost savings, implications of a remix & share culture, moving toward modular/blended learning, and how CTO’s can support and lead this type of environment. Because of NCVPS' unique work in the areas of 21st Century Leadership and Innovation, Dr. Setser and Mrs. Rivenbark have recorded two short, fifteen minute webinars below to help Superintendents and CTO’s in their planning for district wide technology savings, strategic planning, and implementation. In light of the funding formula discussion last week, these services continue to highlight the "value add" of your North Carolina State Virtual Public School.

Dr. Setser's webinar for Superintendents and CTOs:
http://www.ncvps.org/docs/home/LearnNC-CTOtraining/NCVPS-LFIfocusWithBryanSetser.html

Chanin Rivenbark's webinar for CTOs:
http://www.ncvps.org/docs/home/LearnNC-CTOtraining/NCVPS-SystemsFocusWithChaninRivenbark.html

Have a great week with the virtual advantage of ncvps.org and www.learnandearn.gov
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