I’ve been nominated for a few Edublog Awards this year, including Best Individual Blog, Lifetime Achievement, and Best Leadership Blog (a nonexistent category!). I’m flattered that some folks think I’m worthy […]
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[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann has retaken the lead over Jeff Piontek. I’ll try to post a daily update between now […]
Dear Will, In less than two weeks you’ll be here in Iowa. We’re excited to have you visit. We’ve got an eager bunch of state leaders awaiting your insights. Just […]
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Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Chris Lehmann holds his lead over Jeff Piontek. Gary Stager is climbing the charts. n At the beginning […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. As you can see, there’s been a shakeup at the top. Jeffrey Piontek is now slightly ahead of […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeffrey Piontek has widened his lead slightly over Chris Lehmann. Alan November also is moving quickly up the […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Jeff Piontek has widened his lead a bit more over Chris Lehmann. Alan November has claimed the lead […]
Today there was what I thought was an engaging Twitter conversation about the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. Here is the general idea in 17 Tweets… First, I posted about […]
The next phase of ISTE’s 2010 conference keynote crowdsourcing project is now live. Go vote! The top 5 topics were as follows (in order): Effective school leadership for the digital, […]
I’d like to thank everyone who participated in my 3minute survey, Why isn’t your school organization making more progress? We had a total of 561 participants. Some charts and tables […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
The Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series has been featured twice on The Huffington Post in the past few days. One of the stories currently is the lead for […]
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
Here is the current leaderboard for the ISTE conference keynote crowdsourcing project. I’ll try to post a daily update between now and December 15. Have you voted yet?
A recent article from The Economist, The Cult of the Faceless Boss, caught my attention. Here’s an excerpt: n n In general, the corporate world needs its flamboyant visionaries and raging […]
Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are […]
I gave a bad presentation yesterday. It wasn’t bad because I had poor content or delivery. It was a bad presentation because I didn’t sufficiently account for the needs and […]
Why aren’t schools making more progress when it comes to effective implementation and integration of digital technologies? Here’s what K-12 educators usually tell me when asked (list is in no particular […]
I have done a lot of work over the years on various data-driven decision-making projects. I’ve taught courses, given workshops, delivered multi-day institutes for state departments of education and corporate […]
There has been a lot of good discussion on my post about the future of books, libraries, librarians, and schools (thank you, everyone). In addition to the comments on the post […]
WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected?, on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja, Professor and Director of Iowa […]
[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] October apparently was ‘Library Month’ for me. I was the keynote speaker for the Minnesota MEMO conference and did a breakout session for the Iowa Library Association […]
A conversation I had with a superintendent at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference… Superintendent: I’m new to my district. I spent the first year getting the lay of the […]
Two weeks ago, I asked my readers to please vote for my ISTE 2010 conference keynote topic suggestion. Thank you, everyone, who has voted so far. Right now my topic […]
[cross-posted at CASTLE’s 1-to-1 Schools blog] While at Nebraska’s first-ever Educational Administrators Technology Conference, I learned that 8 of the 16 districts in Educational Service Unit 16 have 1:1 laptop […]
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I spent yesterday with technology integrationists from the various Educational Service Units in Nebraska. In my experience, technology integrationists usually are wonderful people who know a lot about digital societal […]
Interesting conversations are occurring, well-known edubloggers are advocating for their topic suggestions (see, e.g., Vicki Davis and Brian Crosby), and, perhaps most importantly for ISTE, there seems to be a fair […]