Search results for: “floydada”
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Gage, Oklahoma Schools roll out iPod Touches for Grades 3-12
Jenah Kastelic’s article this past Friday for the Woodward News, “iSurprise: Area school hands out iPods,” tells the story of Gage Public Schools rolling out iPod Touches for all teachers and students in grades 3-12. Gage is a small community of several hundred people in extreme western Oklahoma. More photos of the rollout are available…
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Maine laptops for grades 7-12 now, Texas still forcing paper textbook purchases
Two articles caught my attention today, probably because they reflect a wide gap in state perspectives on educational spending. photo credit: Wesley Fryer On March 11, 2009, the Maine Department of Education announced it is extending it’s statewide laptop initiative (The Maine Learning Initiative) to high school students. The program started in 2002 with 7th…
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Empowering 21st Century Superintendents to Achieve a Culture of Transformation through Technology
These are my notes from the “Empowering 21st Century Superintendents to Achieve a Culture of Transformation through Technology” session at CoSN 2009 in Austin, Texas, on March 12, 2009. MY COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. UNFORTUNATELY I GOT TO THIS SESSION LATE SO THESE NOTES ARE VERY INCOMPLETE. THESE COMMENTS ARE A COMBINATION OF IDEAS…
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Coordinating iChat Virtual Guest Speakers
With my ADE hat on, I spent most of the day today in Austin, Texas, with a group of superintendents and other administrators discussing 21st century learning, digital curriculum, student engagement, digital storytelling, differentiated assessment, and Apple 1:1 initiatives. During my part of the workshop, which lasted about two hours, Charlie Mahoney and some of…
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Want a successful laptop initiative? Better choose Mac laptops!
A friend recently let me know about the July 2008 report “Third-Year (2006-2007) Traits of Higher Technology Immersion Schools and Teachers” published by the Texas Center for Educational Research for the Texas Education Agency. While the report points out that three of the four “high immersion” sites in TxTIP are using Apple Macintosh laptops instead…
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links for 2008-04-28
Cell/Mobile Phones in Education from wwwtools for Education Extensive listing of links and resources (tags: cell cellphonelearning mobile mobilephone education school) Change Congress — Blog Blog of Larry Lessig’s organization Change Congress, a movement to empower and support the reform efforts of multiple organizations focused on changing the US Congress (tags: activism Politics changecongress) Google…
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Dissertation 2.0
It is quite difficult to find time to write a dissertation. In fact, “finding time” is impossible. “Making time” seems to be the only viable path to move from ABD to professor, particularly when working full time. Until this past Saturday, I had worked exactly ZERO minutes on my doctoral dissertation since the spring of…
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Rethinking WalMart Patronage
I watched the 2005 documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” last night, and want to share some reflections on the movie from the perspectives of a digital storyteller, concerned citizen/consumer, and educator. The video highlights multiple problems/challenges which are not unique to WalMart but are perhaps amplified because of the corporation’s size and…
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Nominate a tech-savvy superintendent
eSchoolNews is accepting nominations through December 1st for its 2007 Tech-Savvy Superintendent Awards. Consider nominating a deserving superintendent you know. This was my nomination: The leadership and vision of Jerry Vaughn continues to be pivotal as Floydada ISD has defined itself as one of the most innovative and successful small school districts in the United…
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Rural and Muni WiFi projects
Every community needs visionary leaders who see future trends and work hard to bring related opportunities to their town or city. Two recent cases involving community wifi networking projects hightlight this contention. Floydada is a small community near Lubbock, Texas, and is the only participanting district in the Texas statewide technology immersion pilot project to…