Yesterday’s presentation went well. The three hour workshop is a good format. There is enough time to say what needs saying and get some real discussion going. About 18 people were there. My co-presenters and I tried to help attendees come away with concrete suggestions for improving their ed tech practice in areas of leadership (my segment of the presentation), IT Management (Denise Musselwhite), Student Learning (Antonio Viva and Howard Levin) and Professional Development (Jill Brown). It’s a terrific group of co-presenters. We enjoy working with each other so much that we’re pondering some sort of regular webcast to really zoom in on specific topics.
The NAIS Technology Task Force met for two hours yesterday morning. We spent a lot of time discussing NAIS’ efforts to reach out more to teachers than they traditionally have and what strategies might be most effective when it comes to sharing information member schools need. We also celebrated the “Stories of Excellence” booklet’s completion, knowing full well that freezing technology stories in time by putting them in a hard copy format makes them obsolete pretty quickly…but at least they’re in a form that some folks are more inclined to read than by going online.
In about an hour, I’ll be doing presentation #2 on the role of the independent school CIO along with Keith Gillette from Lake Forest Country Day and Jason Ramsden from Ravenscroft Academy.
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Curt Lieneck
Filed under: General Interest
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