Adelphi+Cohort+Summer+Course

Adelphi University School of Education Educational Leadership Program EDU 0806-557-057 Technology in School Administration EDU 0806-561-057 Management Theory/Organizational Behavior Summer 2008

This wiki page will serve as a hub for our coursework. We will build this page together with the work we create during class. For an overview of the topics we are covering, click here.


 * Course Objectives:**
 * To share and collaborate on ideas pertaining to 21st Century Education and Technology
 * To learn to use and create content with Web 2.0 Tools such as
 * Blogs
 * Wikis
 * Podcasts
 * Screencasts
 * RSS
 * Social Book Marking
 * Online Photo Galleries
 * Streaming Video
 * To access and utilize Google Tools
 * GMAIL
 * Google Docs
 * Google Reader
 * To gather and contribute meaningful information to a global network of educators

Click here for Cohort's Blogs and Wikis!

Course Expectations Grading Policy Timeline of Events [|Leadership] vs Management within an organization
 * 6/25/08 - Session One: Overview**
 * [|Preparing Effective School Leaders] in NYS
 * [|NYS School Leadership Resources]
 * [|Effective Knowledge and Skills for School Leadership]
 * Based upon his research in //Good to Great//, [|Jim Collins] talks about what it means to be a Level Five Leader. Effective management is good, but according to Collins, "good is the enemy of great".
 * [|Level Five Leadership]
 * [|Level Five Hierarchy]
 * Teaching as we know it? http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006927.html
 * **[|Share your thoughts and ideas about the article here!]**
 * Isolation to Collaboration
 * Presentation
 * [|Professional Learning Communities (PLC's)]
 * 21st Century Education
 * “Flat Classrooms”
 * [|Thomas Friedman]
 * David Warlick's keynote on [|Flat World/Flat Classrooms]
 * http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatClassrooms
 * http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatWorld
 * http://www.leadertalk.org/2008/04/cross-posted-at.html
 * The New Literacy http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=47102021
 * [|NEA Report] finds that technology not being used effectively in schools
 * [|Technology Integration]
 * Activity One
 * Reflection

6/26/08 - Session Two: Google Tools for Educators
 * Creation of GMAIL account
 * Google Docs
 * Google Reader

Google Reader Part I: media type="google" key="5980861656829941065&hl=en&fs=true" width="400" height="326" Google Reader Part II media type="google" key="1930281686100055558&hl=en&fs=true" width="400" height="326" Activity Two

7/7/08 - Session Three: The Blogosphere media type="youtube" key="2yCB4i7GJuM&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"
 * Blogs
 * What are blogs?
 * [|Why Blog?]
 * [|Here is one educator's reason]...
 * H ow are blogs being used?
 * http://technorati.com/
 * How are blogs being used in the classroom?
 * http://supportblogging.com/Links+to+School+Bloggers
 * http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/Weblogs+in+Schools
 * Implications?
 * [|Creation of Blog]
 * Activity Three

7/8/08 - Session Four: Online Collaboration media type="youtube" key="-dnL00TdmLY&hl=en" height="344" width="425" Activity Four 7/9/08 - Session Five: Multimedia Tools
 * Wikis
 * What’s a wiki?
 * How are they being used?
 * Click here for a presentation on wikisfrom NJELITE Conference
 * Wikify Education
 * How are they being used in the classroom?
 * Read, Write, Collaborate, Edit and SHARE
 * Creation of a Wiki
 * http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers100K
 * Podcasts/ Screencasts
 * What is a podcast / screencast?
 * How are they being used?
 * http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605278
 * How are they being used in the classroom?
 * How to create a podcast / screencast
 * http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm
 * Streaming Video
 * http://www.wliw.org/ITV/
 * Use passcode wwTdsQmPrC

7/11/08 Session Six: Read/Write We b media type="youtube" key="x66lV7GOcNU&hl=en" height="344" width="425" media type="youtube" key="0RvAkTuL02A&hl=en" height="344" width="425"
 * [|Teacher Tube]
 * [|YouTube]
 * [|Google Video]
 * Activity Five
 * Social Bookmarking
 * Tagging tools
 * http://del.icio.us/
 * [|Diigo]
 * Why tag?
 * New literacies
 * What it all means…
 * Activity Six

7/16/08 - Session Seven: Final Thoughts / Wrap-up** [|Web 2.0 is the Future of Education]?

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 * Galley Walk
 * Share
 * Discuss
 * Reflect