Been a long time!

Ok, it has been a while since we have added to the blog.  But we are back.  We have truly been continuing to share with our staff and others, but primarily through Twitter.  Twitter is so convenient and now with the number of characters almost as thorough as this format.

So on to today's tip.  As I prepare to present at the NCCE conference in Seattle in February on becoming a "Digital Administrator", I find myself pondering how with all of the demands on current principals and district office how do they find the time to learn new ways to be efficient and use technology effectively in their role.  This can be a daunting task as their email boxes swell and they just try to get through the tyranny of the urgent.

One strategy I am using is to present 1-3 tools at every leadership team meeting that can be quickly demoed and adopted.  This has been extremely popular with our administration and encouraging to me as I see them using the tools regularly.

Linked here is a slideshow of each of the tips I share with my admin team and keep adding to this so eventually they will have a pretty good set of tools to use, but the beauty of this is that as tools change they will be able to evolve with them and change their practice.

Hopefully as we give time to these practices and value their use the admin become model users and see the benefits of using technology for learning.