New Communication Tools for Administrators

BLC 10 New Communication Tools for Administrators New Communication Tools for Administrators
Dr. Richard J. Voltz
Associate Director
Illinois Association of School Administrators

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Change is here...

"If you are a thought leader and you are running a school system, then you should be technologically on the front lines and you should be the voice of that school system," she said. "I urge you to blog, to use the Web anyway that you can to get the great news about your schools out."

Lead by example

Suggest your administrator use “polleverywhere.com” at his/her opening speech at his/her opening speech

polleverywhere.com

Top Web 2.0 Apps

2009 Rank Program Description Web Address 1 Twitter Micro-blogging tool www.twitter.com 2 Delicious Social bookmarking tool www.delicious.com 3 YouTube Video hosting and sharing tool www.youtube.com 4 Google Reader RSS Reader www.google.com/reader 5 Google Docs Online office suite www.google.com/docs 6 WordPress Blogging tool www.wordpress.com 7 Slideshare Presentation sharing site www.slidechare.net 8 Google Search Web searching tool www.google.com 9 Audacity Audio/podcasting tool audacity/sourceforge.net 10 Firefox Web browser with extensions www.mozilla.com/firefox

2009 Rank Program Description Web Address 11 Ning Private social networking tool www.ning.com 12 Skype Instant messenger and voice call tool www.skype.net 13 PowerPoint Presentation software office.microsoft.com/powerpoint 14 Blogger Blogging tool www.blogger.com 15 Moodle Course management system www.moodle.org 16 iGoogle Personal start page tool www.google.com/ig 17 Wikipedia Collaborative encyclopedia www.wikipedia.org 18 Flickr Image hosting and sharing tool www.flickr.com 19 VoiceThread Collaborative slideshow tool www.voicetread.com 20 Jing Screen capture and screencasting tool www.jingproject.com

Mooresville, NC Trip

IASA Podcasts on Mooresville at http://bit.ly/Mooresville http://bit.ly/Mooresville http://bit.ly/Mooresville

Mooresville Statistics
From 38 to 8 in student achievement in two years after 1:1
May be number 1 this year
Increased attendance
Decreased suspensions
All 34 sub-categories meet NCLB except 1

Yes and... If my school had a 1:1 program ... If my school had a 1:1 program ...

Yes but... If my school looked like the previous pictures ... If my school looked like the previous pictures ...

Your school can broadcast its own video live!

Ustream video with your iPhone

http://ustre.am/cOSn

Google Docs

Principal use of Google Docs
Create a form for teachers to sign up for extracurricular assignments
Create a form for teachers to sign up for collaboration groups
Create a form for teachers to indicate special skills and training for building emergency plan
Use document to put classroom observation notes into so the notes can be shared immediately with the teacher.

Google Forms

How would you use Google Documents?

Google Documents
Staff meeting agendas and follow up notes
Grade level or subject area team planning
Share a template for classroom observations
Weekly Announcements
Shared listing of upcoming school events
Revise long documents where each teacher edits one particular section
Back up important documents
Save a tree and turn in an assignment using Google Docs instead of printing. Easy for the teacher to make comments - just go to Insert / Comment.

Google Forms
Principal's use forms for classroom observation with entry from an iPod Touch.
technology inventory
feedback on mentoring and lead teacher programs
staff development surveys
Forms for morning lunch count, students enter selections and teacher sees totals.
Business Manager is working on one for her OSHA building walk-throughs.
To do list: enter jobs for my assistant as I identify what needs to be done... all of the assignments are in one place.
Collect data before a workshop:

iPad for Administrator Use

IASA Podcast Network

http://www.iasaedu.org /

iAnnotate

jingproject.com

How would an administrator use Jing?

Record Audio with Slides Using ProfCast Save to GarageBand Embed in iWeb Upload to WebPage

Administrators Can Make Video Podcasts

World Leaders Make Video Podcasts

Superintendent Video On Referendum

Citizens Video On Referendum

Administrators Can Make Audio Podcasts

Morning announcements with iPod touch

AudioBoo.fm

Evergreen Park HS Uses Audioboo

Evergreen Park HS Uses YouTube YouTube YouTube

How would you use audio or video podcasting?

Introduction to Web Page

Blog Start Your Own Blog

How do I blog?

http://www.blogger.com/home

Superintendent Blogging Mark J. Stock The School Administrator; August 2009 Number 7, Vol.66
You can get news out more quickly.
You can respond to traditional media.
Your message can be accessed by readers on their schedules.
You can increase coverage in the traditional media.
You can build a sense of community.

Could blogging be dangerous?

Yes
Putting something on the web never goes away.
Do not write something STUPID!
Future employers may read your blog.

Blogging Idea
Purchase a professional book and give to teacher and administrator volunteers by audio file
Encourage participants to make at least one blog entry per chapter and respond to another person’s blog entry per chapter
Meet in person every three to five chapters to discuss in person

Virtual Book Study

Would you blog?

Read Blogs
Look for blogs written by people who share your interest
Who do these bloggers follow?
Who comments to these blogs?
Comment to the blog yourself

Blogs to Read Superintendent Principal News & Content Technology Kent Bugg Principals Page – The Blog TED Talks Dangerously Irrelevant Scott Kuffel The Principal and Interest TWIT Free Tech for Teachers Don White Practical Principals Podcast Mashable 2 Cents Worth

Wiki for Administrator Evaluation Evaluation

http://iasa.wikispaces.com/

How could administrators use Skype?

Add Twitter To Your Communication

Follow me on Twitter at rvoltz and IllinoisASA

Schools and Districts Twitter

Trick: Find another school administrator who is using Twitter and see who they follow.

What I’d Buy Instead of an Interactive Whiteboard by Bill Ferriter, The Tempered Radical
Give me $5,000-$6,000 to spend on a middle school classroom with 25 students and I’ll buy:
5 Netbook Computers Cost: $1,250
Give me one netbook for every 5 kids in my classroom and I can create instant workstations for groups.
5 YEARS of VoiceThread for my Students Cost: $300
With little digital skill, kids of all ages can interact in Socratic style conversations on school related topics with one another both in and out of school.
5 YEARS of Brainpop Access for my Classroom Cost: $731
Brainpop is a service that creates short (3-5 minute) animated videos on topics across the curriculum.
5 YEARS of Access to Poll Everywhere Cost: $645
What makes Poll Everywhere—an online application that allows teachers to create and deliver quick surveys—unique is that students can respond to surveys via text message from their cell phones, making the need for student responders obsolete in most middle school classrooms considering the number of students carrying cell phones to school each day.
A Mid-Range Data Projector Cost: $595
Total = $3,521
Camtasia Screencasting Software Cost: $179

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New Communication Tools for Administrators

by Richard Voltz on Jul 13, 2010

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