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.
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I received the e-mail below from yet another person who can’t access my blog at school . How is CASTLE supposed to help school administrators kickstart their schools into the […]
Greg Farr makes me laugh ‘til my sides hurt. That’s probably the best endorsement I can give this Texas principal blogger. Greg also blogs for LeaderTalk (and I encourage you […]
I do a lot of other writing besides blogging for Dangerously Irrelevant. As some of you may have noticed, I recently added a Publications button to this blog (on the […]
My colleague, Dr. David Quinn, and I were invited to come help with the ASB Unplugged 1:1 laptop conference for international schools in late February. We’ll be working with the […]
It’s a new year and I think it’s time to revive the Wednesday Report of the Week (ROTW)! I’ve made a public Google Notebook page for those of you who […]
Following up on yesterday’s post, many school districts have taken great care to define the essential duties and responsibilities of employees’ jobs (typically for legal, rather than educational, purposes). For […]
On Thursday I will be the speaker for the Lower Hudson (NY) Regional Information Center’s Technology Leadership Institute. I’m not quite sure how I got included in the all-star lineup, […]
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I just finished reading David Pogue ‘s fascinating article on the copyright morality of today’s youth (thanks for the link, Ian Jukes !). Here’s the key quote: Right now, the […]
Courtesy of Clay Burell, here are three great videos from Barry Bachenheimer: 42 180 1620 I’ve added all three to the Moving Forward wiki!
As I mentioned last week, each Friday I’m going to try to highlight a blog that I think deserves a bigger audience (DABA). The first recipient in 2008 of the […]
There are just a couple of days left if you want to submit your question ideas for the 2008 education blogosphere survey. If you have any suggestions, please send them […]
One of the things we do at CASTLE is try and expose administrators to modern technology tools with which they may be unfamiliar. For example, if we want principals to […]
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Clay Burell has done a masterful jobnof launching and publicizing Students 2.0,nthe new student group blog. It has been less than a month since the launchnof Students 2.0 and it […]
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I don’t often blog about specific technology tools, but I just ran across a service called Kwout (pronounced ‘quote’). It lets you quickly take a screen shot and then post […]
I received this e-mail earlier in the week: My name is [anonymous]. I am a Library Media Director at [high school] in [city, state]. We are a small community, who […]
Last year I put out a call for bloggers to participate in the first annual education blogosphere survey. I reported the results several weeks later and reactions were generally positive. […]
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Every time you interact with a customer, you’re engaging in marketing. Doesn’t matter if you’re instituting a policy, gaining some data, delivering an invoice… it’s a marketing interaction. … When […]
I’m one of the lucky ones: my XO arrived in time for Christmas (thank you, Betsy!). I wish I knew to which country the other one went. For those of […]
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Whenever I need an address or phone number, I turn to the Web. I realized the other day that I probably haven’t used a telephone directory printed on paper in […]
A while back, a video of Lauren Caitlin Upton’s (Miss South Carolina Teen USA) poor response to a geography question went viral (19 million views as of today; the 30th […]
There are a number of great sites that host how-to videos: SuTree, 5min, VideoJug, Expert Village, Vidipedia, and many more. Typically just a few minutes long, these types of videos […]
I was interviewed for NASSP’s new article on observing religious holidays in schools: Ho ho no: The December dilemma I blogged about this last year in regard to the holiday […]
U.S. News has come out with its list of the best high schools in the United States. Andy Rotherham of Education Sector explains the thinking behind the list. Jay Mathews […]