Chris Lehmann and I submitted our book to the publisher yesterday:

McLeod, S., & Lehmann, C. (Eds.). (in press). What school administrators need to know about digital technologies and social media.

photo © 2008 George Eastman House | more info (via: Wylio)We’re really excited about this book. Take a look at the chapter contributors below and you’ll see why [and before you ask, yes, there were many others that we could have asked and, yes, we had to make some difficult author/topic choices given the space limitations of a printed book].

The book is intended to help administrators

1. gain a basic knowledge base,
2. think critically about some key issues, and
3. get some concrete suggestions for instructional and organizational uses of various digital technologies.

Chris and I will keep you posted as this gets closer to print!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction, Chris Lehmann & Scott McLeod
• Foreword, David Warlick

Learning Tools

• Blogs, Kristin Hokanson & Christian Long
• Wikis, Stephanie Sandifer & Vicki Davis
• Podcasts and webinars, Steve Dembo & Wes Fryer
• RSS and RSS readers, Will Richardson & Karl Fisch
• Digital video, Mathew Needleman
• Virtual schooling, Michael Barbour & Rick Ferdig
• One-to-one computing, Chris Lehmann & Pamela Livingston
• Open source software, Tom Hoffman
• Educational gaming, John Rice

Interlude

• Social media is changing the way we live and learn, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
• See Sally research: Evolving notions of information literacy, Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson

More Learning Tools

• Social bookmarking, Dean Shareski & Mary Beth Hertz
• Online mind mapping, Carl Anderson & Richard Byrne
• Course management systems, Scott Floyd & Miguel Guhlin
• Online office tool suites, Diana Laufenberg & Mark Wagner
• Twitter, Alec Couros & Kevin Jarrett
• Online images and visual literacy, Kim Cofino & David Jakes
• Mobile phones, Liz Kolb & Sharon Tonner
• Social networking, Ewan McIntosh & Jeff Utecht
• Afterword, Christopher Sessums