The keynote speaker had just finished a great presentation on the importance of transforming our schools. The talk was inspirational and had clearly resonated with the audience. A few of us lingered to talk about what actions we could take to bring this vision of the future into being. A director of technology sitting [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Accountability Part 1: “Who Me?”
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, Executive Coaching, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning, Student Leadership on November 29, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Ed Tech Planning 1: Content Plan
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Learning, Student Leadership on November 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
We finished a major upgrade for a school district over the summer. We considered it a success because the servers were new, the switches provided more bandwidth, and the network and desktop operating systems were brought up to date. The only problem with the “successful” upgrade, was that the new operating system would not run [...]
A Thanksgiving Poem for Ed Tech Leaders
Posted in Learning on November 22, 2006 | 2 Comments »
My Thanksgiving wish is that we, as ed tech leaders, find new streets on which to walk.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
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Adding Students to Your Tech Plan
Posted in Ed Tech Planning, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning, Student Leadership on November 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
In the early 1990’s soon after Papa Doc left Haiti, I travelled with a group to Port Au Prince to build housing for teachers behind an elementary school. We were told ahead of time we would be working for and with Haitian builders.
One afternoon, one of our hosts pulled me aside. He lit a cigarette [...]
Honoring the Chickadee
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Learning, Web 2.0 on November 15, 2006 | 3 Comments »
This weekend I was in Chicago working with two of my teachers, Thomas and Sherry White. We were doing sensitive and transformative work around integrity. This process can be very deep since it deals with reflecting on parts of our lives where we may be out of integrity. I find this work challenging because it [...]
Toe the Line or Ride the Line?
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Learning, Web 2.0 on November 13, 2006 | 6 Comments »
What is it that has my 14 year old son and his friends so addicted to a quirky little program called, Line Rider? It’s difficult to categorize Line Rider for it’s neither a game nor a toy. It is very simple. Draw a line, and when you press play, a tiny boy on a sled [...]
Changing World, Changing Literacy
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Learning on November 7, 2006 | 6 Comments »
This week I kicked off the Superintendent’s Conference day at the Millbrook Central School District in the Hudson Valley of New York State. One of the goals I set for myself was to lay the foundation for answering the simple question most professionals ask (rightly so) when we advance the notion that they should [...]
When You Believe It, You Will See It!
Posted in Educational Technology, K-12 Education, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning on November 5, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I’ve had an exciting week bringing myself up to speed on some of the new web 2.0 technologies. I can see that these tools offer great possibilities for a new approach to learning. They have the potential to fundamentally transform teaching and learning. That said, the question remains, “Will we embrace or resist these new [...]
Pulling the Thread
Posted in Educational Technology on November 2, 2006 | 8 Comments »
This week I heard Will Richardson speak at the Mohonk Mountain House.
I have to thank Will for putting the Web 2.0 social networking technologies in a context that opened my eyes to the opportunities they offer to educators. He asked us two [...]
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