Leadership

There is no question that the rest of the world will continue to forge ahead with adopting new technology and implementing new marketing and communication strategies well before those of us in the education world will. However, I have spent some time recently thinking and Twittering with friends and colleagues (@steveritchie @ernestkoe @alexragone @AdmissionsQuest ) [...]

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Lately, most of my time has been spent working with my creative writing students on the development of a new online magazine called “WA Mash” (Worcester Academy Mashup) and in short, it has re-energized my teaching practice. In 1996 I began my first year of teaching and was given as part of my teaching load, [...]

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I have been asked to speak briefly this morning about the renovation and restoration of Kingsley Laboratories.Before I begin.  I wanted to ask all of you, what do you think about how Kingsley turned out?
Yeah, I am pretty excited about it too.
It may seem that somehow, magically, the building went from being tired, and [...]

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I thought I would share my introduction to our first experience with Open Space Technology. For those of you not familiar with OST is “is a simple way to run productive meetings, for five to 2000+ people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization, in everyday practice and extraordinary change.”
Open Space Technology [...]

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So I am getting ready to start a new school year and I think I finally landed on a new Wordpress theme. Chris Pirillo whom many of you may remember from his days on TechTV has released a pretty fantastic theme called “WicketPixie” that does a great job integrated social media. I will spend the [...]

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Here is a recap of some great posts on education, technology, creativity and other interesting ideas floating out in the blogosphere.
Philosophy of Education
Technology in the classroom can also increase the productivity of the teacher and make instruction flow much smoother! For productivity, the teacher can use technology to communicate with students, parents, other teachers, …
Jessica [...]

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Below is a recap of some of the more interesting stories about education, technology, leadership and creativity floating out in the blogosphere. Enjoy!
Civil Rights in the Digital Era
Yesterday, the Wired Campus, a regular education-technology feature at The Chronicle of Higher Ed, featured a short article by Josh Fischman called, “The Civil-Rights Era, Now on the [...]

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I use StumbleUpon to channel surf the web and I came across a great website that I think has enormous potential for educators. It is also mildly addictive. It’s called Go2Web2.0 and it has collected a directory of over 2400 web 2.0 applications since 2006. Below is a description from the website About page.

About Go2Web20.net
Pure [...]

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I am hoping to provide a weekly digest of interesting stories in the news that deal with education, teaching, leadership and technology. Enjoy!
Noneducation Majors Find Teaching Appealing
RedOrbit, TX - May 16, 2008
Recruits often have no prior education experience or course work. They get five weeks of intensive training the summer before they start teaching, [...]

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