UCEA 2006
This page contains materials related to the 2006 UCEA Convention in San Antonio, Texas. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Friday, November 10
CASTLE Symposium: Are We Adequately Preparing Schools and Administrators For Our Technological Future?
Miguel Guhlin posted about this session on his blog. You can read his post, download the podcast of the session, and listen to his reflections there. You also can download the three files I used by clicking on the links below:
- PowerPoint
- Podcast (1:04:16; 59 Mb mp3)
- Did You Know? video (I skipped the first 41 seconds; you can download the complete .wmv file or the PowerPoint and music separately)
- Digital Kids, Analog Schools video (check out the quotes download too!)
Data-Driven Decision-Making and Technology in Schools
- Podcast (1:10:43; 65 Mb mp3)
Saturday, November 11
Penn State Mitstifer Lecture: Dr. Richard Elmore, Education Leadership as the Practice of Improvement
- Entire lecture (1:03:26; 58.5 Mb mp3)
- Excerpts
- Resilience of Teacher Culture (6:20; 5.9 Mb mp3)
- Teacher Professionalism (4:35; 4.3 Mb mp3)
- Clueless About Instructional Improvement (5:27; 5.1 Mb mp3)
- Practice Equals Identity (9:04; 8.5 Mb mp3)
University of New Mexico Session
On Saturday I had the pleasure of spending some time with some of Dr. Karen DeMoss' students at the University of New Mexico. We were joined by Drs. Sara Dexter (U. Virginia), Linda Orozco (Cal State-Fullerton U.), and Kevin Brady (North Carolina State U.). Here are some resources from that session:
Podcasts of student presentations
- Podcast 1 (? minutes; ? Mb mp3) (coming soon!)
- Podcast 2 (? minutes; ? Mb mp3) (coming soon!)
- Podcast 3 (? minutes; ? Mb mp3) (coming soon!)
- Podcast 4 (? minutes; ? Mb mp3) (coming soon!)
Other resources
- Pictures of San Antonio (hotel, Riverwalk, Alamo)
- Some of my stuff
- Dangerously Irrelevant (technology leadership blog)
- School data tutorials
- DDDM resources
- DDDM presentations
- Education law resources
- Principals Technology Leadership Assessment (nation's only such psychometrically-validated assessment)
- Office software
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets (word processor, spreadsheet)
- Writeboard (word processor)
- StarOffice (office suite)
- Zoho (office suite, other tools)
- Mind mapping / concept mapping software
- Wikis
- WikiSpaces (free wikis for educators)
- pbwiki
- JotSpot
- Screencasts
- Podcasts
- Audacity (podcasts)
- Blogs
- Principal Blogging Project (principals)
- Class Blogmeister (teachers)
- Blogger (anyone)
- Teacher Blogging Project (teachers; contact me for more info)
- Meriwether Lewis Elementary (principal, teacher blogs)
- NetVibes (blog aggregator)
- Bloglines (blog aggregator)
- Other stuff
- 37signals
- Basecamp (project collaboration)
- Backpack (information organizer)
- Campfire (group chat)
- Ta-da List (to-do lists)
- SurveyMonkey (online surveys)
- Flickr (photos)
- YouTube (videos)
- Del.icio.us (social bookmarks manager)
- Google Calendar (shared calendar)
- Social networks analysis
- Other Web 2.0 tools (everything under the sun; click on purple scroll arrows to see more)
