Faculty Meeting December 7

David Stephen of High Tech High

David Stephen of High Tech High is presenting to our faculty on Creating Powerful Projects. I'll be live blogging.

Jeff Whipple on Blogging

Great Session!

Visualizing Your World - Google Earth and Map

At 1pm Central time, I'll be live-blogging Vinnie Vrotny's session:

Visualizing Your World - Google Earth and Maps

In this session, participants will learn how to use Google Earth, Maps, Forms, and Sketch-up to create interactive new ways to visualize their world.

Vinnie Vrotny, Director of Academic Technology, North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, IL USA

GIS Conference

Augmented Reality Games with GIS

NCAIS COT Meeting May 21, 2009

Desired Results for Student Learning

I made a wordle out of our document, the desired results for student learning. Here it is, in Green and Gold, with a touch of gray and white.



The largest words represent the words with the greatest frequency in the document. Please share your thoughts.

Ian Jukes, March 26th

Ian Jukes had to cancel as speaker at NCAIS in the fall, but now he's healthy and back in North Carolina. Ian has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, international consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. Over the course of the past 10 years, Ian has worked with clients in more than 30 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations typically speaking to between 250,000 and 350,000 people a year. But Ian is an educator first and foremost. His focus has consistently been on the compelling need to restructure our educational institutions so that they become relevant to the current and future needs of children. The blog will also include all twitters tagged #ncais.

I'll be covering his talk starting at 12:30 EST on Thursday, March 26th.

Building Your Professional Learning Community in Second Life (a virtual world online) Kathy Schrock 8:15

Kathy Schrock is the Administrator for Technology for the Nauset Public Schools on Cape Cod, MA. A large part of her job is involved with infusing technology throughout the curriculum in all areas and at all grade levels. Previously a library media specialist, she is very interested in search strategies, evaluation of Internet information, copyright issues, emerging technologies and gadgets, and the use of technology as a tool to support instruction

A Conversation with Will Richardson & Dave Warlick

I'm really looking forward to that one!

Globally Preparing Students through GPS units 10:15

Network Literacy: Leveraging the Potential of a Hyper Connected World Will Richardson 11:15

Will Richardson is known internationally for his work with educators and students to understand and implement instructional technologies and, more specifically, the tools of the Read/Write Web into their schools, classrooms and communities. A former public school educator for 22 years, Will’s own Weblog (www.Weblogg-ed.com) is a leading resource for the creation and implementation of Web2.0 technologies on the K-12 level, and is a leading voice for re-envisioning learning and teaching inthe context of the fundamental changes these new technologies are bringing to all aspects of life

Alice- the Free, Fun, and Easy Way to Introduce Students to Programming

Programming in Alice.

Google and Classroom Management 10:45

This looks cool! Not typical Google stuff, but more advanced features.

Vicki Davis Opening Keynote NCTIES 9am

Swimming without Drowning: Early Career Teachers and Web 2.0 Technologies

Swimming without Drowning: Early Career Teachers and Web 2.0 Technologies

led by Meredith Stewart, Cary Academy

Thursday, March 5th 2:00-2:45 Eastern
Live blog co-presented with Sam Morris of Cary Academy

10 things your head of school forgot to tell you

Guy Kawasaki at 9:30 am central

Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. Previously, he was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. Guy is the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Oprah 3 pm central

Oprah! Don't need to say more, can't wait to see what she says.

Leadership Development through Faculty Coaching 1:30 pm central

Led by Donna Elder of National Association of Lab Schools (CA) and Elizabeth Morley Institute of Child Study.

An Introduction ot the NAIS Communities 11:30 am central

Ok--this one is for the ISENET crowd! I'll automatically feed in all tweets #nais09. Chime in! Warning though--if this one isn't conversational, I'm heading out the door.

Carol Dweck at 8 am central

Here's Carol Dweck's brief bio:

My work spans social and developmental psychology and examines the self-conceptions people use to structure the self and guide their behavior. My research looks at the origins of these self-conceptions, their role in motivation and self-regulation, and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.

I've read a couple of her articles but don't know enough. I'm looking forward to this.

Michelle Rhee on Reforming Education

Michelle Rhee. Controversial superintendent of the DC public schools. Possibly the bravest person in education today.

Integrated Education

Thursday, February 26th 1:30 to 2:30pm Central (2:30 to 3:30 Eastern) Integrated Education: A Model for Leadership and Curriculum Design in the 21st Century (this is a change)

Creating Artists of Learning

Thursday, February 26th 12 to 1pm Central (1 to 2 Eastern) Creating Artists of Learning with Mary Cullinane. I've heard and met Mary before at one of the original 1:1 conferences. She won't remember me, but I definitely remember her and am looking forward to hearing her again.

Dan Heath and Michelle Rhee

Thursday, February 26 9:30 to 11 am (10:30-12 Eastern)Opening General Session with Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Look for contributions by the whole group to this conversation. Come back to this session for coverage of Michelle Rhee, the controversial Superintendent of DC Public Schools at 4pm Eastern.

Revitalizing the Veteran Teacher

Thursday, February 26 8-9 am (9-10 Eastern) Revitalizing the Veteran Teacher with Peter Gow. I am a big fan of Peter's. You can check out his blog The New Progressivism or his other blog, Admirable Faculties (yep, he has two!) to see if you're interested in catching part of this one. Here are a couple of quotes from Admirable Faculties "I worry that fear is going to drive many schools to make poor choices about sustaining their teachers." and "It's time for schools to look at their mission statements and dig into the language that is most idealistic and then figure out how to realize those ideals in ways that will be exciting and compelling to students and families in years to come."

NAIS 09 Live Reports!

Live from NAIS! I'll be live blogging from a conference again. Here's my schedule for the first two days, with links to further information about the sessions I've selected. Times are central, so I'm converting them too. Rather than having one blog for all the sessions, I'm going to break it up by topic so that it will be easier for you to find what interests you. Note that you can schedule a reminder to your email for any of these! Please feel free to add comments or ask questions. You can do this ahead of a session or during it. I'll post the Friday links soon.

Wednesday, February 25 1-4 pm (2-5 Eastern) Setting a Course for IT Success (yeah, I know, you just yawned, but this will be great and the leaders are phenomenal)




Thursday, February 26 8-9 am (9-10 Eastern) Revitalizing the Veteran Teacher with Peter Gow. I am a big fan of Peter's. You can check out his blog The New Progressivism or his other blog, Admirable Faculties (yep, he has two!) to see if you're interested in catching part of this one. Here are a couple of quotes from Admirable Faculties "I worry that fear is going to drive many schools to make poor choices about sustaining their teachers." and "It's time for schools to look at their mission statements and dig into the language that is most idealistic and then figure out how to realize those ideals in ways that will be exciting and compelling to students and families in years to come."





Thursday, February 26 9:30 to 11 am (10:30-12 Eastern)Opening General Session with Dan Heath, author of Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. Look for contributions by the whole group to this conversation. Later that day, come back to this session for coverage of Michelle Rhee, the controversial Superintendent of DC Public Schools.





Thursday, February 26th 12 to 1pm Central (1 to 2 Eastern) Creating Artists of Learning with Mary Cullinane. I've heard and met Mary before at one of the original 1:1 conferences. She won't remember me, but I definitely remember her and am looking forward to hearing her again.






Thursday, February 26th 1:30 to 2:30pm Central (2:30 to 3:30 Eastern) Curriculum Connections: Empowering Students for a Global Future.



Go back to the 9:30 session for coverage of Michelle Rhee!

PDT Workshop

MS faculty--I'm going to take notes during our session. Feel free to comment/ask questions. If I don't respond, it's because we're talking. . .