Friday, August 28, 2009

My New Friend

I have just been working with Microsoft Shared View and have just discovered what a great tool this is. It doesn't have to be collaborative. It can be used like a webinar. I am psyched. I have found a new purpose!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Here we go

I am now moving into another phase in the technology department. I get to go back to instruction again after working with classroom technology installations for the past year. I am back into what I came to this department for.



We just finished the two day conference. I had been trying to do that for years. I am glad to see it went pretty well. I know there was some grumbling but you can't please all 6000 people. I think overall it went well and we, as a district, looked good. Our teachers looked good. I have heard some feedback and some of it was about how some material was seen before and how some teachers wanted more new stuff. Instead of being disheartened, I think that is good to hear because that tells me have teachers who are more sophisticated tech users that we give them credit for. We need them to tell us what they want. They are the ones who should sending us suggestions, asking us to help them design what they want.

The idea is coordination. Collaborative efforts seem to have taken a back seat in the past two years to an authoritarian style leadership. I see less collaboration now than I did before. The teachers are on the front lines and we need more from them. Perhaps changes will take place.