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Explore the history and culture of U.S. immigration and migration through community stories, objects and experiences with Smithsonian curators and experts.

Join faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide as they share their expertise and engage in productive forums about the use of educational technology for teaching and learning.

Smithsonian educators share ready-to-use resources for the classroom that explore the role of the presidency and highlight historic inaugural ceremonies of the past.

Join Smithsonian experts as they share historical facts, stories, and connections with museum objects that surround inaugurations — from the first Inauguration of George Washington to the upcoming Inauguration of Barack Obama.

Explore the work of many leaders, ordinary citizens and students undertook during the Civil Rights Movement to make a difference in today’s world.

Explore women’s contributions in relation to the women’s rights movements from the late nineteenth century to today.

Explore the history and culture of U.S. immigration and migration through community stories, objects and experiences with Smithsonian curators and experts.

The world of ePublishing is changing at a dizzying rate. What is it, where do you start, and how do you find out the latest developments? This workshop will have the answers!

Explore Civil Rights and Smithsonian collections with curators, experts, and educators in a free online conference.

Join us for the sixth edition of our popular conference series for museum professionals as we explore developing a mobile web site, writing a mobile strategy, and more in this fast-moving field.

Some of the best and brightest from the MCN Community will share their experience, skills and knowledge in an ongoing series of how-to workshops.

Please join us for the fifth edition of our popular series for museum professionals. Meet and interact online with colleagues working in mobile interpretation from around the globe and walk away with practical knowledge you can put to use immediately at your institution.

The National Youth Summit brings middle and high school students together with scholars, teachers, policy experts and activists in a national conversation about important events in America’s past that impact the nation’s present and future.

Handheld Librarian 7 will include talks on ebooks, location-based social networking, lending devices, reference and mobile technologies impacting society - by librarians for librarians.

The National Air and Space Museum will be offering a free, live webcast for early childhood educators, parents, and enthusiasts to learn how to teach inquiry science to three-, four-, and five-year-olds.

The 2012 Smith Leadership Symposium will inspire new ways of thinking about the business of arts, science, and cultural institutions

Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes and director of the BadgeStack Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development.

Join faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide as they share their expertise and engage in productive forums about the use of educational technology for teaching and learning.

The Smithsonian Institution and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello are co-hosting a free interactive online conference for teachers and secondary students that will examine different aspects of Jefferson’s life. 

The two-day, interactive online conference will examine how libraries are capitalizing on community collaborations- whether through faculty scholarship and student learning, facilitating connectedness and fostering literacy in a town, or reaching out online.

Join us for the National Rural Education Technology Summit 2.0 - a one-day online event for teachers, students and rural education stakeholders sponsored by the US Department of Education. The engaging and interactive program will showcase how technology is being used to overcome the challenges of distance and increase access to educational opportunities in distant and remote rural areas.

In partnership with AAM’s professional network committees, the Virtual Conference will showcase ten sessions of broad appeal and greatest relevance to the 2012 annual meeting theme “Creative Community.” A stellar cast of subject matter experts will offer broad, multidisciplinary perspectives to museums of all types and sizes.

How do you measure & articulate social media success at your museum? This workshop will have the answers!

Please join us for the fourth edition of our popular series for museum professionals. Meet and interact online with colleagues working in mobile interpretation from around the globe and walk away with practical knowledge you can put to use immediately at your institution.

The Smithsonian is offering teachers a multidimensional resource for expanding and enriching curriculum with Shout, a free environmental exploration program. Through interactive webinars, comprehensive lesson-planning materials and hands-on activities, Shout features renowned Smithsonian scientists and other experts in the arts and humanities.

In this online workshop you will join renowned online facilitator and author Jonathan Finkelstein to learn and practice effective, practical and creative strategies and techniques for the live online environment. 

Learn how to access the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network operated by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Join us for a deep dive into Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) products and c ome away with skills to start addressing your own DAMS needs.

Communicating the Museum, the world’s leading arts communications conference, will be hosting an Online Conference for the first time this year. The Online Conference will allow the online audience to follow and interact with keynote speeches and learning sessions from this international event, direct from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The MicroObservatory telescopes can be used in a variety of ways to facilitate powerful STEM learning for your students - come learn how to use it with your students.

Join us for the 2012 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Online Conference and participate in six engaging sessions, plus hear from two Annual Conference featured speakers - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Will Bagley!

Join the National Air and Space Museum for an interactive online conference developed especially for teachers and secondary students. Historians and educators from the Museum, and guests from the Department of the Navy and National History Day, will demonstrate critical thinking skills they use to evaluate information.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 123,000 libraries and 17,500 museums, presents a webinar series based on the national initiative "Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action".

This free webinar, led by David Diana, author of Marketing for the Mental Health Professional: An Innovative Guide for Practitioners, takes a closer look at powerful tools and techniques for building credibility and expertise in the marketplace.

The most popular guide books on Online Teaching and Learning come to life as an Online Conference. Interact with over a dozen authors and hundreds of colleagues, right from your desktop. All participants receive a choice of 3 books.

STEMtech Online, just like the onsite conference, will focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and the intelligent application of information technology in educational institutions.

This certificate covers the basics of developing e-learning with PowerPoint, from creating good user interfaces to inserting navigation, designing for impact, creating and editing art and animation, developing interactivity, and adding narration and multimedia.

This certificate provides you with the knowledge and hands-on practice you need to build and edit interactive software demonstrations, simulations, podcasts, screencasts, lessons and more.

This certificate immerses you in the Second Life learning environment through activities and exercises. We’ll explore the basics of Second Life - from learning to communicate, navigate, and present to groups in this 3D online world, to using creative strategies for big learning opportunities. 

The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is pleased to announce that registration is open for a new series of StEPs Webinars, the latest installment in the StEPs initative (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations).

TCC, Technology, Colleges and Community, is a worldwide online conference designed for university and college practitioners including faculty, academic support staff, counselors, student services personnel, students, and administrators.

Join experts, colleagues and practitioners for this online conference focused on goals, strategies and tools needed to examine, evaluate and implement greener and more sustainable strategies.

Grab your phone, laptop or iPad because on April 27, 2011, IOC is going mobile! The 9th annual conference, Going Mobile in Higher Ed, will focus exclusively on mobile technologies in higher education.

The 2011 Museums & Mobile Online Conference builds on the findings of the second annual Museums & Mobile Survey, bringing together professionals sharing their practical experiences in the delivery and management of mobile interpretation projects at museums.

This certificate offers concrete approaches for bringing each of the elements of a great podcast together. You’ll complete this certificate with your first podcast recorded, edited and posted on your own podcasting site.

AAM unveils its 2nd annual virtual conference to deliver outstanding educational content live from the 2011 Annual Meeting in Houston, May 23-24, 2011. A stellar cast of subject matter experts will offer broad, multidisciplinary perspectives to museums of all types and sizes.

This series of three online events — taking place on Friday, April 1, 2011 live from the Art Gallery of Ontario — is scheduled in conjunction with the opening of Inuit Modern: The Esther and Samuel Sarick Collection of Inuit Art.

"Cross Cultural Interchange and Aspirations of Universality: The Peacock Room in 1908" is online interactive colloquium organized by the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

Handheld Librarian V will address themes such as ebooks, location-based social networking, lending devices, reference and mobile technologies impacting society.

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference for designed to provide K-12 educators with resources and strategies for addressing the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Join us September 21, 2011 for the next free event in the Shout online conference series featuring Smithsonian experts. We'll explore the forest service, look at earth from space, hear the latest on the Tree Banding citizen science project, and connect with a panel of Smithsonian scientists to hear the latest on their environmentally-related work.

Interpretation Canada hosts an exciting online event on audiences and innovation in the field of Heritage Interpretation, with a full line-up of engaging guest speakers. Topics include museum visitor experience, social marketing, forgotten spaces and finding new audiences.

Learn about the experience creating an interactive information literacy tutorial from beginning to end in collaboration with a multimedia designer in this ACRL Webcast. Evaluate the potential of tutorial as an assessment tool and an opportunity for self-evaluation.

AASLH, with support from the IMLS, opens registration for its winter series of free StEPs Webinars, the latest installment in the StEPs initiative (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations).

Learn to apply the appropriate analysis methods to your project's data or information, depending on the research methodology you are using.

Learn about best practices for credit-bearing information literacy courses based upon a literature review and several years of experimentation with various approaches to teaching a one-credit course at Boise State University.

Author Parker J. Palmer of the Center for Courage & Renewal kicks off a series of conversations about “doing democracy from the inside out.” Thousands join the first event online from hundreds of convening sites around the world.

Join us for the fourth online conference in a highly popular series on the use of mobile technology in libraries. More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide mobile services as handheld use increases.

Topics will include form creation, including ADA accessibility features, in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0., Google Forms, and the data aggregation methods of each to track instructional progress and improvement in student learning.

Designed for department chairs with more experience who want to know how to deal successfully with the key challenges of their position.

A professional, economical, and timely webcast series for department chairs to get the orientation and support they need to excel in their role.

How do you construct a good e-learning program that engages learners and delivers the business results your organization is looking for? Join the E-Learning Design Certificate and find out.

Take a “basics” look at the step-by-step process of bringing an object into your collection.

Can't make it to the AASLH Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City because of budget cuts, travel restrictions, or you just don't have the time? Join us for the AASLH Online Conference.

The Illinois Library Association will hold its first-ever virtual conference. The program will feature highlights from the 2010 ILA Annual Conference, with a focus on partnerships and planning.

With the right practices, any training program can excel performance, while delivering economic benefits. In this certificate program, you’ll find out how by gaining in-depth focus and practical methods on managing the entire scope of your organization’s training.

Learn the step-by-step process of designing and developing scenario-based e-learning programs that heightens e-learners involving and learning. 

Engage your museum's board members in more meaningful ways by understanding their fiduciary role and how they can be generative and strategic for the organization.

This interactive certificate uses real world, practical examples to explore each phase of the instructional design process from analysis, design, development, and implementation to evaluation.