The Future of Leadership Technology and the School Leader

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The Future of Leadership Technology and the
School Leader
Online Course Presenter Meg Ormiston

• Illinois Administrator Academy 751

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Meg Ormiston

• Online Course Presenter
• Professional Development Specialist,
• Independent Consultant
• Adjunct Professor, Aurora University
• 9s772 Lorraine Drive
• Burr Ridge, IL 60527
• E-mail meg_at_techteachers.com
• www.techteachers.com
• Phone [phone]
• Twitter, Skype, Plurk, Flickr (and everything
  else) megormi

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Introduce Yourself

• Type Your Name and School

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Comfort Taking an Online Class

• How many of you have not taken an online class
  before?
• Raise Your Hand

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Quick Survey -Poll

• What is your primary source to stay current with
  technology?
• A. Students
• B. Teachers
• C. Tech staff
• D. Mainstream media
• E. Other

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Days Agenda

• Wordle
• Books you need to know about
• New thinking about collaboration
• Web 2.0 Tools
• The future is video, is your system ready?
• Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts
• Social networking
• Create an action plan

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Create a Tag Cloud with Wordle.net

• www.wordle.net

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Obamas Inaugural Speech
http//www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tag_clouds_of
_obamas_inaugural_speech_compared_to_bushs.php
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Bush's Speech 2005
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Bill Clinton's Second Inauguration Speech
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Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Speech
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Lincoln's First
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Lincoln's Second
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http//www.wordle.net/
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The Future is Collaboration

• Let me illustrate!

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• These changes are ushering us toward a world
  where knowledge, power and productive capability
  will be more dispersed than during any other time
  in our history. A power shift is under way and a
  tough new business rule is emerging Harness the
  new collaboration or perish.
• http//www.networkinginsight.com/files/Wikinomics_
  Soundview.pdf

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• The growing accessibility of information
  technologies puts the tools required to
  collaborate, create value and compete at
  everybodys fingertips. This new mode of
  innovation and value creation is called peer
  production or peering.
• http//www.networkinginsight.com/files/Wikinomics
  _Soundview.pdf

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The Principles of Wikinomics
Being Open
Sharing
Acting Globally
Peering
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• Students today have grown up online and they are
  used to collaborating. This generation spends
  time reading, searching, authenticating,
  collaborating and organizing. This is the culture
  of this generation.

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http//wikinomics-book-study.blogspot.com/
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Leadership Tools You Need to Know!
Highlight the tools you know enough to explain to
someone else

• Facebook
• Ning
• del.icio.us
• Linkedin
• Second Life
• Google Alerts
• Google Calendar
• Google Docs
• Google Sketchup
• Slide Rocket
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Google Page Creator
• Jing
• School Town
• Plurk

• Skype
• uStream
• Wikinomics
• Podcasting
• Bloglines
• Twitter
• Blogs
• Tags
• Wikipedia
• Image Chef
• GCast
• Microblogging
• Teacher Tube
• You Tube
• School Tube
• Qik

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Web 2.0 Poll

• A. I knew most of the web 2.0 tools.
• B. I knew about half of the tools.
• C. I only have heard of a handful.
• D. I have never heard of any of these tools.

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My Number One Source for Professional
Development
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http//twitter.com/home
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IPA Twitter
http//twitter.com/ilprincipals
IPA Website www.ilprincipals.org
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http//twittersheep.com/
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http//twiturm.com/f380
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http//twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
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http//twitter4teachers.pbwiki.com/Principals
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How would you use Twitter?
Questions about Twitter?
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The Future is Video
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http//www.skype.com/welcomeback/
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http//www.youtube.com/
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http//www.teachertube.com/
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http//www.schooltube.com/
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How many have used videos
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Blogging and Wikis for School Leaders
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http//www.phsprincipal.blogspot.com/
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http//bicknell.edublogs.org/2008/09/01/the-perks-
of-education-as-a-profession/
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http//principalspage.com/
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http//www.ccsd89.org/i
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Wikis
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http//welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/?tanon
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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http//www.wikispaces.com/
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http//megormi.wikispaces.com/leadersonline
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How do you use
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Student and Teacher Engagement
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How many of you have a Gmail Account?
http//mail.google.com/mail
How do you use the Google tools?
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Collecting Data in New Ways
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http//www.polleverywhere.com/
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http//textthemob.com/
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http//studentresponsenetwork.com/
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Social Networking
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http//www.librarything.com/catalog.php
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http//www.classroom20.com/
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IPA Website www.ilprincipals.org
http//ipaprincipalsprinciples.ning.com/
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http//pearlsplp.ning.com/
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http//techcamp.ning.com/
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http//www.flickr.com/
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Which of these social networks are your using?
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Future Tools for Engagement
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What did you learn today?
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Meg Ormiston

• 9s772 Lorraine Drive
• Burr Ridge, IL 60527
• E-mail meg_at_techteachers.com
• www.techteachers.com
• Phone [phone]
• Twitter, Skype, Plurk, Flickr (and everything
  else) megormi

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Application/Dissemination

• Which 3 Web 2.0 Tools will
• you take back and use
• professionally?
• Give 1 example of how
• you plan to use one of
• the Web 2.0 tools.