Welcome to November, iLeaders!
Since we will not be meeting again until January 26, 2011, I’d like you to take a minute or five and help me plan the second half of iLead. On your own blog or in the comments below, please share a little about:
- Now that you’ve had your iPad for almost half the year, what are one or two of your biggest “a-has” or most powerful discoveries about how it supports your leadership practice?
- With the iLead cohort about half over, what has been most helpful to you?
- With half of the iLead cohort still to come, what are some ways that I can make it more relevant and useful?
- In short, what would you like to spend more time doing or talking about in our time together? How can I support you in your professional growth since that’s what this is really all about?
That’s it! Thanks for a great first half of the cohort and don’t forget to make plans to join us at Loveland High on Saturday, February 26, 2011, for Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation.
#1 by Vicki Mivshek on November 11, 2010 - 5:14 pm
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I love my iPad – it allows me to respond to emails immediately if needed. The iLead Cohort group is very supportive. I learn something new each time we meet. Some of the members are able to share new applications that they find useful. I just really enjoy the open discussions we have. I would really like to learn how to put a webinar together. I am going to work with one of the HR members from a surrounding district to develop training materials for principals and staff on relevant HR issues and would like to deliver these trainings via webinars or other appropriate technology. Any ideas and how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
#2 by Roger Quintanilla on November 11, 2010 - 9:38 pm
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I carry the iPad on school visits instead of lug my MacBook Pro. Let’s me keep in touch on the go. Biggest aha was that the iPad is more or less Read Mostly, as I describe it, due to the hobbling effect of the glassware keyboard and the not-Windows (Thanx Xerox PARC!) functionality. However, it’s a great Read Always machine allowing clears, bright text and graphics. The 2nd aha was the availability of specific, niche apps that developers target to consumer and citizen needs e,g. Amazon to NPR to TED to Zillow. Still no Flash, but relief on the way with new HTML.
#3 by Dave Patterson on November 13, 2010 - 4:58 pm
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Have been using the iPad throughout my travels in the building. Note-taking and emailing, and love being connected rather than having to be confined within the walls of my office. Lately, I have been exploring ways to use the iPad to create/edit documents. It truly has been about finding the right apps. Spent time with this today. The “Pages” app seems like the one to focus on at this point, and I’ll have to try it out next week. Probably continuing to talk about and review apps would be helpful, as well as ways in which folks are using their iPad in their day to day work.
#4 by Roger Quintanilla on November 13, 2010 - 5:11 pm
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2. The most helpful 1st half of the cohort experience has been around being in a group that would admit me as a member! I kid. The social networking aspect aside (more elsewhere) I am struck about how engaged and excited people get about the simple discoveries they make learning to use and apply an app. In a larger sense,with a longer view view of time behind me, I have been there, done that. Big difference — No one is talking about seeking mastery of some bloatware. Instead, they are marveling about the direct application of limited, targeted software to meet a specific need. If they have another need, they get another app, all OK as long as the apps can connect their output to others. These folks don’t generally have the time or interest to spend more than three clicks to get something done to facilitate the deep thinking and smart working they need to do every working hour. Being with these folks reminds me about the shift in time and focus people have made about working.
#5 by Q on November 15, 2010 - 9:41 pm
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3. Half of the iLead cohort collaboration time remains in FY11. What would make this time most helpful to me centers around the Unified Improvement Plan Template column for “implementation benchmarks”. What negotiated, manageable “adult progress monitoring” check and adjust steps can we monitor to gauge tech integration and digital media activity progress toward student achievement and well-being? I need to follow the [title] money spent on educational technology. What are the milestones teachers have to pass to get the digital power in the hands of the students in the K-5 classroom?
#6 by Q on November 15, 2010 - 9:42 pm
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4. Program evaluation