04.21.2009 by admin in
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This presentation: Preparing for the Future was given at the ECIS Admin conference in April 2009.
Find more information on the wiki handout here. Feel free to add your own notes.
04.21.2009 by admin in
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This is a presentation about creating a positive school profile for an international school that I gave at the ECIS Admin conference in April 2009.
The wiki handout is located here. Please feel free to add your thinking to this page.
03.23.2009 by admin in
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Ken Royal asked Chris Betcher and I to join him for an experiment on Scholastic Panel TV Discussion.
I recorded the audio for a podcast that you can download or watch the YouTube version from Ken below.
11.25.2008 by admin in
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At the EARCOS Admin conference I got to spend over an hour with 26 business managers from the EARCOS region. It was a great conversation and this marks my first enhanced podcast complete with chapters. It was a good discussion that focused on the educational reasons schools need to invest in bandwidth and storage.
10.21.2008 by admin in
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A conversation with Terry Kaminski about taking his school 1:1. We talk learning portals, PD, and how his school is planning to roll out laptops to all their students.
06.24.2008 by admin in
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Ken Carroll and I sat down and talked about the Learning 2.008 conference. Listen for details on what to expect, who will be attending and how the conference will run.
Conference Site: http://learning2cn.ning.com
Registration: http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=177180
Need some Chinese? Check out Chinesepod.com! 
06.12.2008 by David Carpenter in
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Introductions
Rick Pierce of Rising Sun Consultants and Andy Torris from Shanghai American School joined David and Jeff for tonight’s show.
Essential Question
What Stalls the Shift?
Take away from the discussion>
-We need to differentiate between “change” and the “transition” that follows. Administrators need to allocate much more time for the transition. Need to validate the emotions of community members as they go through the transition. Need lots of support and guidance that takes planning just as one plans the change.
-Leaders as visionaries while also working to serve the teachers, students and community. Servant leadership. Managers who craft programs and follow through.
-Even with lots of energy and time for transition, there will be some “anchors” who are stalling the shifted and must be transitioned out with grace and dignity.
-How to start the change? Form a leadership team of admin and teachers, determine what you want to do and where you are going. Set the vision.
-Have to set priorities. How to deal with all the different community members with their varying priorities? What guides you in deciding what comes first? Leadership means sticking with the carefully decided priorities which are guided by your mission and student learning goals.
-What happens after the delegation of responsibilities? Administrators need to let go but be very clear in guidance and expectations being ready to accept the work of the follow up teams.
Blog Posts of the Week:
Jeff: LeaderTalk Learning 2.008 Bring your administrators and board members to the conference!
David: 10 Principles for Principals by Ryan Bretag. Adapting to Change by Will Richardson.
Rick: Leading the Shift Leading and Managing Change
Andy: PD Success Story Who is Interviewing Whom? Rising Sun Book Review’s on Change Management
Sign Off:
* Next show will be the start of season two as we pick up in September from Bangkok, Thailand from Jeff’s new abode. David continues to shift along from Hsinchu, Taiwan.
* We will be expand on previous discussions of teacher practitioners sharing practical methods to shift our schools starting from our classrooms. We will continue other discussions connected to the big picture process of shifting our schools.
* Don’t forget to post Web sites/blogs to the SOS Del.icio.us bookmarking site that support our upcoming EQ.
06.10.2008 by admin in
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Ken Carol of Praxis Language (and the famous ChinesePod.com) invited me out to their new studio here in Shanghai to record some sound bites for the Learning 2.008 conference. Ken and Praxis Language will help us to record every session of the Learning 2.008 conference this year. (More on my visit with Ken later)
I worked with their sound guy David to create an audio ad that we are releasing here for distribution.
Our hope is that you will take this 19 second clip and embed it in your own educational podcasts, pass it around to friends, e-mail it to teachers in your school, or post it on your own blog/site to help spread the word about the conference. Yes, I had way to much fun recording this and editing it with David.
Please take, use, remix, distribute, and use at will. It is released under a Creative Commons 3.0 License.
As far as I know we’re the first conference to release a mp3 audio ad on the Internet for use in podcasts and other audio media. …and that’s just the beginning of firsts for this years conference. You will not want to miss it!
05.26.2008 by David Carpenter in
SOS
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Introductions
Chris O’Neal, educational leader and consultant, joined David and Jeff for tonight’s show.
Essential Question
Your Standards or Mine?
David> See his blog post.
Jeff> We don’t have standards for paper and pencils so why would we need them for technology? Aren’t we working with teachers to help them reach their subject area standards with the help of technology?
Take away from the discussion> The higher order rich NETS are helping frame the conversation with administrators as they talk about learning in their buildings. What is another name for “standards” when we talk about the NETS as learning outcomes we want integrated across the curriculum.
Blog Posts of the Week
Jeff: See his 3 posts on having standards for technology: 1 2 3
Chris: Bionic Teaching
David: Practical Theory
Sign Off
* Next show is Thursday June 12th at 7 PM Shanghai time.
* Our guest will be Rick Pierce of Rising Sun Consultants, Andy Torris from Shanghai American School and Struan Robinson from International School Bangkok.
* Essential Question for the show: What stalls the shift?
* Don’t forget to post Web sites/blogs to the SOS Del.icio.us bookmarking site that support our upcoming EQ.
05.23.2008 by admin in
On Deck
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I decided to end the PSU grad course that I teach this quarter by make a podcast with the students on their reflections, their learning, and how they felt about the course now that we’re wrapping it up. I had a blast hearing their take on Second Life, the work they have started on their own because of this course and just the amazing people they are. To Kim, Patti, and Sherry…..thank you!
Show Notes:
Kim’s blog: http://hockeymomblog.blogspot.com/
Patti’s blog: http://torchgirl2002.blogspot.com
Sherry’s blog: http://shegstrom-ed5160.blogspot.com/
Collaborative Wiki project: http://etwb.wetpaint.com
Kim’s Wiki project with her school: http://web2-0andtechnology.wetpaint.com/
Kim’s Animoto project: http://animoto.com/play/IeKe6ZOXxeAy23wA9uKQiQ
SOS has moved Check us out at our new location at www.sospodcast.org
On Deck is a podcast site hosted by me. If you like what you hear you can check out my other works at The Thinking Stick, U Tech Tips, Gourmet Geeks, and SOS Podcast blogs respectively.
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