Blog

Definition: A Web site that contains online personal reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer. Origin: Short for Weblog.

My Qualifications

I have had extensive experience in managing technology departments for schools. Here is a quick summary of my skills that ...
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One-to-One Learning Environment for our Classrooms

The providing of technology resources such as hardware and software to students in a 1:1 implementation that includes a well-developed ...
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How To Coordinate IT Across the Enterprise

The IT department must consider themselves as a service organization. Our users expect 24/7 service similar to public utilities such ...
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How to Use Data in Managing Projects and Budgets

Overall strategy is to monitor what matters. The success of any organization, both public and private, is how they effectively ...
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Goals of a CIO / Director of Technology in Public Schools

I believe that a primary goal of the Chief Information Officer is to constantly be on the lookout on how ...
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Skills and Attributes

I have guided my career in school administration by embracing and practicing the following skills and attributes: 1. Leadership and Vision ...
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Vision of the Effective Classroom of the Future

First of all, we must accept the premise that student learning in the future will not be limited to the ...
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Why Technology in Education and How I Can Make it Happen

I believe technology is essential for student learning because of the following reasons: Technology allows learning anywhere, anytime; not just ...
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The Personal Characteristics of an Excellent Administrator.

I believe that an administrator must act as an effective communicator of the schools visions and goals, be a creative ...
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Definition of 21st Century Learning

The term “21st Century Skills” is used by forward thinking educators to describe the future of student learning (student skills) ...
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Important issues facing our profession

Here are a couple issues that I feel are impacting schools across the country: Many schools are struggling to transform present ...
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Teaching to meet a variety of abilities and learning styles

The concept of differentiated instruction is easily understood but difficult to practice. Classroom management is very challenging when trying to ...
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Professional Goals

My professional goal is to positively affect the learning of students through the integrated use of technology in the classroom. During ...
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Contributions to a School Administrative Team.

An effective administrative team must recognize that different stakeholders are motivated by different methods. As administrators, we must recognize the ...
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Web 2.0 Tools

To achieve the goal of technology being fully integrated into classroom instruction for a One-to-One computing initiative, there must be ...
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