Scott McLeod
Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
[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…] […]
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. […]
This is a quick round-up of what happened on the CASTLE blogs last week… Edjurist Scott Bauries discussed how the No Child Left Behind Act has introduced some new angles […]
Five online resources worth checking out… TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live. The Des Moines Register profiled an […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Men and women who carried lunch pails and spent their days on assembly lines could earn good wages, own their own homes, feed their families, […]
Richard Longworth says… n n State officials know perfectly well that globalization will swallow their traditional industries. But they’re stuck. Workers vote, and a voter who has just lost his […]
Richard Longworth says… n n Most of [the] earlier outsourcing dealt with manufacturing and factory workers. . . . The newest wave is different. It’s white-collar outsourcing . . . […]
Michael Port says… n n When we are thinking small, we crave preordained outcomes. We want to know what’s going to happen before we begin. Control is an illusion. The […]