Effective Technology LeadershipPatrick Higgins, Jr.Director of Curriculum, HumanitiesSparta Township Public SchoolsSparta, NJChalkdust101.wordpress.comtechdossier.blogspot.compjhiggins on twitterpjhiggins on Diigopjhiggins1 on skypepatrick.higgins@sparta.org

It Begins With You

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Creating a Network

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Creating a Network

Building out

Excuses

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Creating a Network

Building out

Excuses

Leading by Being

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Does your network include more than one of the following?

Does your network include more than one of the following?

•Microblogging (Twitter, Plurk, etc.)•RSS Reader•Social Bookmarking•Your own blog•A social networking service (Ning, Facebook, etc.)

Text your answer to 41411. If “yes” text CAST 17867. If “no” text CAST 17866.

I Believe in This

From the Classroom

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Sucker for

what’s around

the next

corner

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Defining Moments

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Transformative

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SLA

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PD Classes

PD Classes

Before the Shift

Introduction to Frontpage

Frontpage Advanced

Using Digital Photography in your Classroom

Podcasting

Introduction to the Interactive Whiteboard

Alternate Uses for PowerPointHow To use Unitedstreaming in Your Classroom

Windows Movie Maker, parts I and II

MS Office Ins and Outs

PD Classes

After the Shift

PD Classes

After the Shift

Connective Writing: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Communicate

Using Wikis to Extend the Walls of your Classroom

Google School: How to Plan, Implement and Create Using Google for Educators

Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Mine the Web: Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0 Teaching Strategies

Research 2.0 with RSS: How to get information to Find You

Administrator's Introduction into Web 2.0

Tablet Teacher's Toolbox

Presenting with Google Earth in the Social Studies Classroom

The Classroom Blog: How to move your students writing to a secure, online community

The Media Rich Classroom: Using Video to Engage and Assess students

Feedback Matters: How student feedback can change your lesson design: before, during, and after

The Wiki Way: Using Wikis as Collaborative Environments

Internet Safety: What you need to know about keeping your students safe online

iGoogle, Do You?: Creating your Own Personalized Homepage

Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Track Student Writing and Foster Collaboration through Google Docs

SearchSmarter: Increasing Online Productivity Through More Efficient Research

Introduction to Social Networking and Personal Learning Environments: Using Smarter People to Raise your Level of Thinking

Copyright or Copy Wrong

PD Classes

After the Shift

Connective Writing: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Communicate

Using Wikis to Extend the Walls of your Classroom

Google School: How to Plan, Implement and Create Using Google for Educators

Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Mine the Web: Social Bookmarking

Web 2.0 Teaching Strategies

Research 2.0 with RSS: How to get information to Find You

Administrator's Introduction into Web 2.0

Tablet Teacher's Toolbox

Presenting with Google Earth in the Social Studies Classroom

The Classroom Blog: How to move your students writing to a secure, online community

The Media Rich Classroom: Using Video to Engage and Assess students

Feedback Matters: How student feedback can change your lesson design: before, during, and after

The Wiki Way: Using Wikis as Collaborative Environments

Internet Safety: What you need to know about keeping your students safe online

iGoogle, Do You?: Creating your Own Personalized Homepage

Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Track Student Writing and Foster Collaboration through Google Docs

SearchSmarter: Increasing Online Productivity Through More Efficient Research

Introduction to Social Networking and Personal Learning Environments: Using Smarter People to Raise your Level of Thinking

Copyright or Copy Wrong

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/

New Bearings, New Direction

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Connected Learning=Connected Leading

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How do you seed a network?

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Seeding a Network

D’Arcy Norman’s PLE

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Alec Couros

(Diagrams from EXAMINING THE OPEN MOVEMENT: POSSIBILITIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION (pdf. p182, doc, p.172) - Reproduced under a Creative Commons License - Alec Couros, Dec 2006)

"One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by

notable thinkers of the past"http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushon/282287572/

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Dabbling

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Doing Old Things in Old Ways

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Doing New Things in Old Ways

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Doing New Things in New Ways

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Bluebirds and Early AdoptersBuilding Levelhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mohankr/212446290/

How are the teachers in your building/district

connected to one another?

How do you open the doors?

Find Inspiration

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Connectivity

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ShareShareShare

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Where do you Fall? Where Does your staff fall?

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Building Out Excuses

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Establish an Online Presence

Building Out Excuses

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Establish an Online Presence

Establish sharing within the community

Building Out Excuses

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Establish an Online Presence

Establish sharing within the community

Give to Get

Building Out Excuses

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Establish an Online Presence

Establish sharing within the community

Give to Get

Don’t Waste Their Time

Building Out Excuses

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Collaborative Blog Admins, Teachers, 2-12

Don’t Waste Their Time

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29051967@N03/2860457090/

“If it can be communicated in an email, it doesn’t belong in a faculty meeting.

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Semantics

It’s not integrating

It’s teaching

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If you go with this...

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You can’t still give them this...

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Visionary

ChangeAgent

Educational Leader

Modeler

Manager

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Great leaders shine brilliant lights away from broken places to inspire another trek to finer peaks - where

learning captures minds. -Angela Maiers

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The Embedded Journalist

Catch and Reward

Competencehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/niclas/3548940/

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For Resources used to create this presentation, see the following links:

http://www.diigo.com/user/pjhiggins/techforumny08?tab=250http://www.flickr.com/photos/14579369@N04/favorites/ (this one may be bad)