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Where are they now? (9)
Eric Langhorst wrote:
Hello. It has been a pretty exciting and crazy year here in Liberty, Missouri. I had hoped to attend the T+L Conference in Nashville but I have something even more exciting happening at home that week - the birth of baby #2 in our family. I'll have to try and make the conference in Seattle in 2008!
I am still teaching 8th grade American History at South Valley Jr. High in Liberty, Missouri and using blogs, podcasting, online assessment, etc. with my students. I was extremely honored last month to learn that I have been selected as the 2007/2008 Missouri Teacher of the Year. It will be an exciting year ahead and I am looking forward to the opportunity to speak with many educational and civic groups about the power of effectively implementing Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. My blog and podcast "Speaking of History" is currently in it's 3rd year and has had visitors from 135 countries. I am also currently preparing presentations for the national social studies conference (NCSS) in San Diego later this winter and have been working with PBS on some curriculum resources for the recent series "The War". I will be the guest host for the PBS blog "Media Infusion" in November 2007 where the topic of discussion with be teaching history with the power of stories and "The War".
Have a great time at the T+L conference and congratulations to the educators named to this year's 20 to Watch List. I'll be following the conference through the power of the web.
Thomas Tan wrote:
Time certainly flies. Ann Flynn from NSBA asked us to give an update of where we are now so here goes. I recently moved from the Ontario-Montclair School District to become the Director of Technology for the Jurupa Unified School District in Southern California. We are currently in the middle of updating our technology master plan and planning for E-rate school networking projects.
I'm also teaching a Government and Technology class for the California State University-Pomona Masters in Public Administration program. Since it's important to practice what we preach, we have a class blog to use "Web 2.0" technologies to build a richer class experience. You can see what the class is about at:
http://599govtech.blogspot.com/
I'm always on the prowl for clever uses of tech in education, so if you have some to share, just drop me an e-mail.
"Better Teaching, Learning and Collaboration through Technology"
Thomas Tan, Director-Education Technology
Jurupa Unified School District
4850 Pedley Road
Riverside, CA 92509
Tel: 951-360-4185
E-mail: thomas_tan@jusd.k12.ca.us
Web: http://www.jusd.k12.ca.us
Patti Dean wrote:
I continue to serve as the Director of Instructional Technology for Cheney School District. In addition, I am facilitating a partnership grant between Cheney Public Schools and Eastern Washington University. We received $2.5 million from Microsoft to improve student learning in mathematics and in better preparing preservice math teachers. I am also working on a Technology Levy that will go to voters in February. When the levy passes, the district will be able to place computers, data projectors and document cameras in every classroom.
Janet Herdman wrote:
I am currently on a bi-state (Missouri and Kansas)committee that is researching opportunities to expand I2 access in the K-12 environment. We are focused on the impact this will have toward our METS initiatives. Another active group in Missouri is looking at better ways to teach and assess student technology literacy as we report mastery of NETS for students in the 8th grade.
North Kansas City Schools has had a busy year in technology. We have completed all the network upgrades and wireless installations for all 8 of our secondary schools. This summer we trained staff and provided a laptop for all of our 1,200 teaching staff. It is very exciting to see how the increase mobility has provided new instructional opportunities. In addition, our electronic and mobile resources coupled with our online learning environment provide our teaching staff and students opportunities to access information anytime, anyplace. We will be presenting on this topic in Nashville. See you in a few weeks.
Jennette Kane wrote:
Has it been a year already?! I remain in my position as Technology Integration Supervisor for the Orange City Schools in Pepper Pike, Ohio. I am currently enrolled in the Johns Hopkins University/ISTE graduate certificate program in school leadership (with an emphasis on Instructional Technology). It's a great program. I'm meeting some wonderful people and learning a great deal! I am also immersed within my district rolling out our data initiative. We have spent a good deal of this past year carving out collaborative time in our schedules and working on creating professional learning communities. This year our professional development is focused on getting student data in the hands of the teachers, helping them understand what the data means, and assisting in the creation of formative and common assessments. This will be the focus of a presentation I will be giving at this year’s NSBA T+L conference. Stop by and say hello!
Jennette
Kari Stubbs wrote:
The past year has been extremely significant in my professional journey. I defended my dissertation in January, and officially earned my PhD from the University of Kansas in May. That same month, I started a new position as the Director of Professional Development at ePals, Inc. This new position has allowed me to broaden my awareness and perspective of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as return to my roots of curriculum development with our In2Books literacy service. This summer, we launched a new widget called AskePals. This fall, we announced that we will now offer SchoolMail and SchoolBlog for free. It has been a significant year. I can’t wait to see what the next year brings! Thank you so much for honoring me last year with this award.
Chris Lehmann wrote:
Wow... has it been a year! Thank you to NSBA for this honor.
It's been a really fun and busy year at SLA. We had an amazing first year for our school -- and even Edutopia Magazine noticed with a story about us in the April magazine. We had our 1:1 laptop program renewed, and we saw our first year end with a 97% course passing rate, and a 95% attendance rate. We had 2,000 kids apply for 120 spots in the Class of 2011, and we are having a blast getting to know our new frosh.
We keep asking ourselves as a school how we can marry the best of the progressive pedagogy to the new communication, information and production tools of today to try to create a school that serves the kids of today.
Come join us in January at EduCon 2.0, a school reform conference we're putting on at school!
(And I'll see everyone at T+L!)
Bruce Dixon wrote:
The twelve months since last year's T+L 20 to Watch have seen an enormous growth in interest around 1 to 1; the most notable dimension of this interest has been the number of developing countries that are now seriously looking at leapfrogging to 1 to 1, as a means of accelerating their econmonic growth around a reformed education system. No longer do we see people asking IF, but rather WHEN. Hence my past year has meant keynotes across more than a dozen countries speaking to educational leaders and policy makers from more than 80 countries. Gone are the days when educators engaged in dialogue with 3 or 4 neighbouring or familiar countries; today there is an appetite for improving the opportunities fro young people in countries across the globe, and I have been both challenged and privileged to be working with leaders around the world trying to offer ideas and solutions about how this can make a difference that is relevant for thei local community.
Anchored back in our work across the US, Canada, and Australia, the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation is now connecting a community of nearly 2,000 1 to 1 leaders who are networking their knowledge and expertise to ensure that the promise of a laptop for every child is fulfilled with the reality of exceptional learning opportunities. We can only do this through the collective wisdom of our global community, and I hope that many of those who attend T+L this year, will support the work of the Foundation, and our goals.
Jill Hobson wrote:
Like the others who have already posted, this past year has flown by for me. It is quite an honor to have been recognized by NSBA.
I am continuing to pursue the exciting work with Forsyth County Schools as Director of Instructional Technology. Forsyth has been recognized this year by NSBA as one of the Salute Districts. In particular we have expanded our investigation into interactive and virtual learning experiences using the state-of-the-art professional learning laboratory we call the DRIVE lab. DRIVE stands for Developing and Researching Interactive and Virtual Experiences. We've purchased an island in Second Life and are exploring the instructional possibilities of a MUVE. We're also deploying Tabula Digita's Dimenxian math video game in our middle schools and have had great success so far with that.
Another project for us has been the implementation of a new learning management system from Angel Learning. All of our high school teachers are using the LMS to support blended learning in a standards-based classrom.
Though I won't be at T+L this year, many of my colleagues from Forsyth will be there. Check out the panel discussion moderated by Bailey Mitchell on the 8th Grade Technology Literacy Requirement in NCLB.
2006 Twenty to Watch: An interview with Jennifer Ziolko (2)
Tomaz wrote:
Hi, thanks for all the resources on this blog about your conference. As one involved in conferencing business this helps me a lot to stay in touch with the latest developments in industry.
Best regards.
Andrew wrote:
We're glad you find it to be a useful resource.
The face of things yet to come (2006) (1)
Vicki Davis wrote:
In order to promote innovation, we need to truly be able to "watch" these leaders in innovation. Could you post their blogs so that we can do that? If these leaders could be encouraged to blog, others can learn from them and not just the districts where they work.
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