Effective Technology Leadership
Patrick Higgins, Jr.
Director of Curriculum, Humanities
Sparta Township Public Schools
Sparta, NJ
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It Begins With You
http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanoide/138782217/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/404321726/

Creating a
Network
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/404321726/

Creating a
Network
Building
out
Excuses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/404321726/

Creating a
Network
Building
out
Excuses
Leading
by Being
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/404321726/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/2455370080/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/2375710085/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jequalo/2177766629/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/307350380/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/2455370080/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/2375710085/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jequalo/2177766629/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/307350380/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/2455370080/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/2375710085/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jequalo/2177766629/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/307350380/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncan/2455370080/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/2375710085/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jequalo/2177766629/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsub1/307350380/

Does your network include more than one of the
following?

Does your network include more than one of the
following?
•Microblogging (Twitter, Plurk, etc.)
•RSS Reader
•Social Bookmarking
•Your own blog
•A social networking service (Ning, Facebook, etc.)
Text your answer to 41411. If “yes” text CAST 17867. If “no” text CAST 17866.

I Believe in This

From the
Classroom
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179143282/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fikirbaz/2233788191/

Sucker
for
what’s
around
the
next
corner
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fikirbaz/2233788191/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

Defining Moments
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

Transformative
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

SLA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chunyang/412846799/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeope/316891870/

PD Classes

Introduction to Frontpage
Using Digital Photography in your Classroom
Introduction to the Interactive Whiteboard
MS Office Ins and Outs
PD Classes
Windows Movie Maker, parts I and II
Before the Shift
How To use Unitedstreaming in Your Classroom
Alternate Uses for PowerPoint
Frontpage Advanced
Podcasting

PD Classes
After the Shift

Administrator's Introduction into Web 2.0
The Media Rich Classroom: Using Video to Engage and Assess students
Introduction to Social Networking and Personal Learning Environments: Using Smarter People
to Raise your Level of Thinking
Connective Writing: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Communicate
The Wiki Way: Using Wikis as Collaborative Environments
Presenting with Google Earth in the Social Studies Classroom
Internet Safety: What you need to know about keeping your students safe online
Using Wikis to Extend the Walls of
your Classroom
PD Classes Google School: How to Plan, Implement and Create Using
Google for Educators
After the Shift Tablet Teacher's Toolbox
Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Mine the Web: Social
Bookmarking
Copyright or Copy Wrong
Web 2.0 Teaching Strategies
Feedback Matters: How student feedback can change your lesson design: before, during, and after
Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Track Student
Research 2.0 with RSS: How to get information to Find You Writing and Foster Collaboration through Google
Docs

Administrator's Introduction into Web 2.0
The Media Rich Classroom: Using Video to Engage and Assess students
Introduction to Social Networking and Personal Learning Environments: Using Smarter People
to Raise your Level of Thinking
Connective Writing: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Communicate
The Wiki Way: Using Wikis as Collaborative Environments
Presenting with Google Earth in the Social Studies Classroom
Internet Safety: What you need to know about keeping your students safe online
Using Wikis to Extend the Walls of
your Classroom
PD Classes Google School: How to Plan, Implement and Create Using
Google for Educators
After the Shift Tablet Teacher's Toolbox
Using the Wisdom of Crowds to Mine the Web: Social
Bookmarking
Copyright or Copy Wrong
Web 2.0 Teaching Strategies
Feedback Matters: How student feedback can change your lesson design: before, during, and after
Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Track Student
Research 2.0 with RSS: How to get information to Find You Writing and Foster Collaboration through Google
Docs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/-bast-/349497988/

New Bearings, New Direction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominik99/1403329318/

Connected Learning=Connected Leading
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scifr/449865567/

How do you seed a network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewfch/780308586/

Seeding a Network

D’Arcy Norman’s PLE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/2314258583/

Alec Couros
(Diagrams from EXAMINING THE OPEN MOVEMENT: POSSIBILITIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION (pdf. p182, doc, p.172) - Reproduced under a Creative Commons License - Alec Couros, Dec 2006)

\"One who develops future intellectual pursuits by
understanding the research and works created by
notable thinkers of the past\"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushon/282287572/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/1423599488/

Dabbling
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/1423599488/

Doing Old Things in Old Ways
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/1423599488/

Doing New Things in Old Ways
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/1423599488/

Doing New Things in New Ways
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannedtuna/1423599488/

Building Level Bluebirds and Early Adopters
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mohankr/212446290/

How are the teachers in
your building/district
connected to one How do you open the doors?
another?

Find Inspiration
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/313926881/

Connectivity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/programwitch/362848115/

ShareShareShare
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ctatunderground/955939313/

Where do you Fall? Where Does your staff fall?
https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/LOTI

Building Out Excuses
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/

Building Out Excuses
Establish an Online Presence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/

Building Out Excuses
Establish an Online Presence
Establish sharing within the community
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/

Building Out Excuses
Establish an Online Presence
Establish sharing within the community
Give to Get
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/

Building Out Excuses
Establish an Online Presence
Establish sharing within the community
Give to Get
Don’t Waste Their Time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/

Collaborative Blog Admins, Teachers, 2-12

Don’t Waste Their Time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29051967@N03/2860457090/

“If it can be communicated in an email,
it doesn’t belong in a faculty meeting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wetsun/211468558/

Semantics
It’s not integrating
It’s teaching
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juanillooo/324199938/

If you go with this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/98352836/

You can’t still give them this...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/javad697/2356737055/

Visionary Educational Leader
ChangeAgent Modeler
Manager
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damodhar/227559318/

Great leaders shine brilliant lights away from broken
places to inspire another trek to finer peaks - where
learning captures minds. -Angela Maiers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoneppink/80772661/

The
Embedded
Journalist
Catch and
Reward
Competence
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niclas/3548940/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/undercover_surrealist/1348661640/

For Resources used to create this presentation, see the
following links:
http://www.diigo.com/user/pjhiggins/techforumny08?tab=250
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14579369@N04/favorites/ (this one may be bad)