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On the Media had a great piece this week entitled, “Sex, Drugs, and Video Games” about the relationship between video games and violence. They say:
Lawrence Kutner has authored a new book suggesting violent video games do not create violent children.
As the parent of three young children and a Director of Technology at an all [...]

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 This year is a rebuilding year.  As I wrote about in my reorganization post in the summer, I have three new staff members in my department this year.  We are physically spread all over the school, creating divisions that can negatively effect department cohesiveness if we do not stay in frequent contact.
To work around this, we’ve [...]

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When I got to Baltimore to present at the AIMS conference, I realized that I had Internet access. I uploaded my slides to Google Presentations, did some editing and got going. Vinnie Vrotny and Patrick Higgings showed up for the presentation (huge thanks to the two of them). Alecia Berman-Dry was a [...]

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I’m working on setting up a Drupal Multi-Site Configuration to create sites that allow division specific blogging and password protecting of certain sites in the multisite configuration. Here’s the configuration I’m looking at:
1. Three column theme custom made for collegiate with site navigation on the left and organic group navigation on the right. [...]

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We’ve been testing out DrupalEd for a faculty collaboration and sharing of information this fall, and it’s been flexible and worked like a charm after a normal CMS learning curve. 
So our faculty are submitting their summer professional development reports through a form.  The problem is that when faculty copy and paste from Word, even using [...]

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Much of the past six months I spent searching and hiring new staff members for my department. In what felt endless at times, we hired a Lower School Technology Coordinator, a Technical Support Specialist and an Administrative Assistant. The second two of these positions were new and/or redefined as well. They both [...]

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In my last post I discussed the curriculum design on 21st Century Schools. Recently, Patrick Bassett, President of NAIS has pre-published a paper entitled, “So What’s it Gonna be, Huh?” that defines 21st Century education as:
In my work with schools in the US and around the world, I frequently address groups of leaders, not [...]

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Boy has it been an intense few weeks. I have so much to write about and will soon. In the mean time, I have a thought.
Last week I had a conversation with a colleague about his head of school. My colleague said the following in reference to technology, education and our changing [...]

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If you haven’t checked out the School 2.0 interview series that Steve Hargadon had been doing, you’re missing out.
This interview with John Seely Brown challenges my thoughts about education and gave me wonderful ideas on how to begin to explain the shift to my colleagues. This one is getting burnt to CDs and [...]

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Thanks, Nancy and David for stretching my thinking about this professional development day.

I’m struggling with appropriate administrative pressure and my department’s buy in to provide basics training to faculty. I have been re-tooling our sessions to allow for better technological solutions for everyday problems. For example, “Appropriate Presentations” would include a discussion [...]

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