Tools for administrators

creativity is where the United States excels; we are behind other countries in everything else

"Poll everywhere" is a voting service where folks can vote via text on a handheld device

Book recommendation: Disrupting Class, How disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, Clayton Christensen

Audience mostly public school administrators: quote: "All the best kids are going to private, charter or homeschool: 8-12% of school age childre" (he is addressing the issues in public education in Illinois specifically)

check this out!

Sal Kahn is taping mini lectures and taping it and placing it on YouTube...5 minutes or less; podcasts and mini lessons are done at home and class time is for discussion, problem solving and interpersonal interaction; he is a local start up;
-engineering

this has all 4-6 min video clips explaining all topics
he's not a teacher; he's an engineer

http://www.khanacademy.org/

watch this... http://khanexercises.appspot.com/video?v=1xSQlwWGT8M


Mooresville, N.C. has a no textbook rule and have given laptops to all 4th-12th graders and student achievement has improved exponentially

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Uses of google docs in schools:

Create forms for teachers to sign up for extracurricular, for emergency procedures; discipline procedures;

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in libraries, kids are checking out KIndles after requesting books to be dowloaded which is done by the librarian...

-less than 10% implementation (by teachers) of tech training in public schools in ILL.

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ustreaming on iphones thru the ustream app
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www.iasaedu.org
he does a podcast a week for school administrators
podcasts
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iPad
program called iAnnotate; you can highlight and mark on the PDF on the iPad

they are doing teacher evaluations with iPads and iAnnotate ($9.99) app and then they can mark up the doc on the iPad

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jing

podcasts which are basically narrated power points/ blogs/ wikis/ informational videos/
blogging curriculum and instruction ideas on podcasts/

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http://audioboo.fm/

audioboo/fm is a free app

narrate, record and bookend a performance and hit publish and it goes right to webpage for public

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Chinese students are in school 180 days per year for ten hours a day; a little paranoia here about the future of public schools

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I made my own separate to do list as an administrator; I have lots to think about here!!
KM