Just a reminder that tomorrow is Leadership Day 2009 here at Dangerously Irrelevant! n You can see the posts from previous years at n n Leadership Day 2007 Summary n […]
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For Leadership Day 2009, here are some key questions that I’d ask about the technology leadership function in any school district: n n Who is primary responsible for technology leadership in […]
For those of you who have asked, my Monday, June 29, afternoon presentation at NECC, Effective leadership in an era of disruptive innovation, is now available at ISTEVision: FYI, you also […]
Many of you have been participating in and/or following the conversations for this year’s CASTLE Summer Book Club. I am pleased to announce that my interview today with Dr. Dan […]
I tweeted: And Barry Dahl replied: Barry’s right and I’m wrong. I failed my own information literacy test. Why? Because even though I had access to (and linked to) the […]
I had a Twitter discussion the other night with Jim Twetten, who’s the Assistant Director for Academic Technologies here at Iowa State University and also has quickly become one of my […]
A few days before NECC I was invited by a publicist to interview Julie Young, the Executive Director of the Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and also speak with the folks from […]
Did you miss the extravaganza this year? Wish you were at NECC 2009 but couldn’t make it? Hate NECC and want to snipe from afar? Here are some resources that […]
Since the past two have been so successful, I am putting out a call for people to participate in Leadership Day 2009. As I said two years ago: n n […]
Count ’em: Four, yes four, CoverItLive sessions for Malcolm Gladwell’s keynote at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC: n n Kristin Hokanson n ISTE Connects n TechChicks n TeachPaperless n n […]
The Internet’s down here at NECC 2009. “Too many people it overloaded the system” has been the response. n WRONG ANSWER. The convention center knew 14,000 techies were coming. […]
Here are my notes from the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) Release Celebration here at NECC 2009 in Washington, DC. The new NETS-A are a big update from […]
I am by no means anti-corporation. And many companies have been very good to me and CASTLE. And I know they’re an important part of the NECC convention each year. And […]
Thought I’d share some recent publicity that CASTLE and I have gotten. I’ve been sitting on some of these for a while and wanted to get them all out so […]
NECC ’09 and Edubloggercon ’09 are underway! We had a quick intro from Steve Hargadon, then broke into sessions. I stayed for Vicki Davis’Web 2.0 Smackdown. Here are the tools […]
The sign of a good unconference is when every session you attend goes over time, people don’t want to leave, conversation pushes into the next scheduled session, etc. EVERY session I attended […]
These are my notes from the 3rd annual Constructivist Celebration, hosted by Gary Stager at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC. Gary Stager 150 participants here today See constructivistconsortium.org/books for constructivist teaching […]
A few weeks ago we decided to offer a technology ‘boot camp’ for administrators. CASTLE is working with the School Administrators of Iowa to make it happen. For those of you who […]
Check out this comment on Linda Fandel’s Des Moines Register blog today: “Ames’ Kellogg says she will play basketball at Minnesota”“Charles City’s Buss says he will play basketball at UNI” […]
Some of you may have noticed that I have two online courses coming up this fall. Here’s what I’m thinking… I’ve been reading Jeff Jarvis’ superb book, What Would Google […]
I walked out of a 2hour workshop last week. I actually really wanted to know the information that was to be presented, but the workshop facilitator did such a terrible […]
Registration for the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club closes this Wednesday at midnight. To date we have 159 participants, which blows the doors off of last year’s total of 125. […]
[Update: If you registered, please check your junk mail / spam folders. Many of you who thought you had not received an e-mail from me later found my message in there…] […]
Many bloggers don’t allow comments on old posts. After two weeks or 30 days or whatever, visitors lose their ability to leave comments. This is done mainly for spam protection, […]
Whew! It’s consumed a lot of my time the past week but I am pleased to say that the 2009 CASTLE Summer Book Club is off and running! [Okay, more […]
nThis is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… n LeaderTalk n Sue King discussed her thoughts on wrapping up another school year. n Barbara […]
The 2009 Game Education Summit begins today in Pittsburgh. If you’re not attending, the keynote presentations will be streamed live and also will be available afterward. The summit looks awesome; […]
Yet another great TED presentation, this one by Clay Shirky: Shirky notes that we are living through “the largest increase in expressive capability in human history.” Wait, isn’t it a […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Alec Couros has asked his readers to recommend readings that will expand his Associate Dean’s “understanding of current changes regarding social networks, knowledge, and […]
Michael Port says… n n With small thinking, we cannot grow intellectually, spiritually, creatively, emotionally, financially. And when we cannot grow, society cannot grow. It cannot advance. It cannot […]