[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog]

On June 28, I invited

bloggers and readers to participate in Leadership Day

on July 4.

Specifically, I asked participants of the blogosphere to write about effective

school technology leadership: successes, challenges, reflections, needs, etc. A

variety of folks participated in the conversation:

Johnson

listed her Top Ten (Not So Good) Reasons Why Educational Leaders

Don’t Embrace Digital Technologies

.

Martinez

affirmed the importance of student leaders, saying that while we

wonder where the future technology leaders ‘will come from, there they sit

in front of us everyday, being ignored.

‘

worked under an administrator that made technology a priority of any kind. In

fact, his current principal admits that e-mail isn’t a priority so no one

e-mails her.

at backbythebell

wondered what it will take before administrators

see enough benefit in IT tools to actually promote their usage in schools.

and Bytes

, RSS was identified as a perfect tool for job-embeddded training

for administrators. An attempt also was made to aggregate

all of the posts

with the schooltechleadership

tag

.

Brooks-Young

listed some technology tools that she regularly recommends to

principals.

Lubke

thinks that principals should let teachers count online participation

in academic learning networks as required inservice hours.

Ardito

affirmed the importance of leadership when

it comes to technology and was appreciative

of being in an encouraging and supportive environment

.

Shively

sadly noted that his university’s school administator certification

program has had very little coverage of technology issues.

Rosen

recognized that she ‘can not expect the teachers … to try something

new if [she is] not willing to learn as well.

‘

Poling

thinks administrators should be actively reading blogs by other

administrators, teachers, and even students.

at A Library By Any Other Name

highlighted a few blog posts that

every administrator should read.

Bednar

believes that there is a lot of power in using wikis.

Foote

listed a number of different activities that can be used to facilitate

technology conversations with administrators.

Brumbaugh

noted that he wants to be a leader that works to five education

‘independence from the industrial age.‘

Coordinator’s Office

described a successful technology training

initiative that included administrators.

independence and school leadership ‘don’t seem to hang out too

much.

‘

Waggoner

does not believe that administrators need to be tech-savvy

themselves to be effective technology leaders.

Johnson

helpfully listed some past articles and other resources on K-12

technology leadership.

‘many administrators don’t see the need for certain uses of technoogy …

because they felt they got on all right, thank you very much, without them, so

why should others need them?

‘

that principals who are falling behind in technology should staff to their

weakness and lead by example. She also listed some helpful things that even

non-tech-savvy principals can do.

own post at the TechLearning blog

emphasized the importance of appropriately

designing professional development for administrators. (see also Patrick

Higgins’ take on my list

)

Thanks to everyone who contributed to Leadership

Day

, including the numerous people who commented on the

invitation post

, the TechLearning

blog

, or Dangerously

Irrelevant

. Maybe we’ll do it again next year!