Browsing all posts in "leadership".
A new world of digital choices
NECC 2009 (the last NECC, since next year it will be ISTE 2010) was a fantastic conference for many reasons. For me, as in the past, the opportunities to have conversations with other educators striving to find new ways to engage students, connect professionally with peers, and utilize cutting edge digital tools to expand the [...]
Blogging the Conference: We’ve come a long way in 3 years!
The response to Joe Corbett’s June 12th post here on ISTEconnects, “Planning To Create Lots Of Great NECC Content? Share It With Us Here!” has been amazing! To date, about one hundred people have indicated they are going to share content from NECC 2009 via blogs, Flickr, CoverItLive, Ustream, and other websites. What an exciting [...]
Schools filtered like totalitarian police states
I recently shared a workshop in a public school, which like many others around the United States, blocks almost all websites which permit interaction and collaboration.
As you can see on the above images, the websites which were blocked included delicious social bookmarks, Flickr photo sharing, the Storycorps oral history project, Friendfeed, Google Mail, and Feedburner. [...]
Raising Awareness About ISTE NETS
The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) from the International Society for Technology in Education:
…have served as a roadmap since 1998 for improved teaching and learning by educators. ISTE standards for students, teachers, and administrators help to measure proficiency and set aspirational goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in today’s Digital Age.
It [...]
Leadership and PD: Critical Keys for 1:1 Success
Out of 535 school districts in the state of Oklahoma, only five are currently implementing 1 to 1 learning initiatives with student laptops. This morning I attended a meeting convened by our State Department of Education with the superintendents of those five districts, which include Crescent Public Schools, Frontier Public Schools, Stidham Public Schools, Lowrey [...]
Libraries of the future
Information is changing along with the ways we access it during our our everyday lives, and these changes have big implications for libraries as we’ve traditionally known them. The video “Mindspot the Movie: The Library as a Universe” provides a glimpse into a Danish library making big shifts in the ways professional librarians think about [...]
