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  • March 2009

• 8:32 AM darinrking - SchoolTube. Safe, easy and free
• 8:33 AM darinrking - Heavily moderated for content to ensure appropriateness
• 8:33 AM darinrking - Some schools are streaming live content to SchoolTube
• 8:34 AM darinrking - Not many ads, but some. Trying to keep the service for schools clean
• 8:34 AM darinrking - SchoolTube is a media sharing service for schools
• 8:34 AM darinrking - Photos and videos, uploaded by both students and teachers
• 8:35 AM darinrking - IWB captures saved by teachers and uploaded to SchoolTube.
• 8:35 AM darinrking - How to get started? Register, upload a video, moderator approval, video is live on the web, use your video.
• 8:36 AM darinrking - Every teacher is verified by school. Contact them if you can’t find your school. They will take you through the process to add it and ID school moderators.
• 8:36 AM darinrking - They will verify that the teachers and moderators are real..
• 8:38 AM darinrking - Parents can register and upload videos also. It will come to a teacher at the school to be moderated.
• 8:39 AM darinrking - Every upload can go into up to 3 categories. Also put keywords in to aid searching
• 8:40 AM darinrking - Will accept most of the common formats of video files, but under 100meg in size.
• 8:40 AM darinrking - They then encode it into flash
• 8:41 AM darinrking - Once you have uploaded content, you can: embed a single video, email link, create a school “landing page” and link to it
• 8:44 AM darinrking - Wireless network getting flaky again…sorry
• 8:45 AM darinrking - Students can comment, but they are preset comments. This keeps the comments and ratings appropriate
• 8:46 AM darinrking - Built in bookmarking tools. Digg, Delicious, Furl, etc.
• 8:47 AM darinrking - MVP player lets you put multiple videos into your own homepage. Linked and streamed,
• 8:48 AM darinrking - Educators Page in SchoolTube with info for teachers
• 8:49 AM darinrking - Handouts for parents, a tech corner to help with techie things
• 8:50 AM darinrking - Educator Community. Social networking for the teachers using SchoolTube. Post questions, etc.
• 8:51 AM darinrking - Again, SchoolTube is a FREE service to teachers and schools.
• 8:52 AM darinrking - SchoolTube does have some commercial contests that support the costs of the site. Schwann Foods student video contest, etc.
• 8:53 AM darinrking - MVP Player can be a subscription service also for business, but the content has to be appropriate for K12, regardless of the source.
• 8:57 AM darinrking - Q&A time.
• 8:57 AM darinrking - Teachers moderate for copyright and also for local AUP/FERPA issues
• 8:58 AM darinrking - Content is not filtered by age. All content is intended for K12 student audience. Might have some videos done and approved by a 12th grader that may not be appropriate to a Kindergartner
• 8:59 AM darinrking - No real social networking with un-moderated communications. EVERYTHING is moderated.
• 9:02 AM darinrking - Session over, off to the vendor area.

• 7:33 AM darinrking - Cheryl Lemke from Metiri Group.
• 7:34 AM darinrking - What is different about Web 2.0? 2 way flow of information, everyone can publish, network and connect, have your say, more focused content
• 7:34 AM darinrking - Very interactive environment, everyone contributes.
• 7:35 AM darinrking - Reference to work at Stanford. Learning in informal and formal environments. Bridgett Barron. Adolescent Learning 2.0
• 7:35 AM darinrking - How can we add value to adolescent’s learning with them in the “center” of the learning. Previous models school was the center. Now the student is the center.
• 7:36 AM darinrking - Showing 1001 Flat World Tales website.
• 7:39 AM darinrking - Talking about the book Flow…author with long name
• 7:40 AM darinrking - Flow is a balance between task complexity and skill level. Too complex, frustration. Low skill, boredom.
• 7:40 AM darinrking - If you push the flow, you get creativity. Must scaffold to help push them
• 7:41 AM darinrking - We need to create motivation, curiosity, and interest or they will never get in the Flow.
• 7:41 AM darinrking - What does a learning environment look like that promotes this?
• 7:41 AM darinrking - Web2.0 seems to mirror what the research says is good learning.
• 7:42 AM darinrking - First topic, Collaboration: cooperative learning, but we often don’t promote deep collaboration
• 7:43 AM darinrking - Johnson and Johnson: Cooperation trumps Competition for complex learning. It also trump individual learning.
• 7:44 AM darinrking - Cooperative Learning Attributes: formal/informal balance, positive interdependence, promotive interaction, shared workspace, group reflection and processing.
• 7:45 AM darinrking - Cooperative learning research has been around for quite some time, but it supports many of the same things that web2.0 brings to the table.
• 7:47 AM darinrking - Study compared cooperative vs small group. More mediated interaction, questioning in cooperative learning
• 7:48 AM darinrking - Sustained discussion? Cross discussions, teacher is not in the middle of the discussion, teacher is just a part of the discussion
• 7:49 AM darinrking - Many examples of “forced” collaboration in HS classes. ie-make students post to a blog about assigned topics.
• 7:50 AM darinrking - Showing a HS AP History class blog as an example. Didn’t catch URL Pointing out the difference between posts that students are engaged in vs those they are not.
• 7:51 AM darinrking - It must be interesting and compelling for true collaboration to occur.
• 7:52 AM darinrking - Creative Controversy: research a position, present best case, engage in open discussion, reverse the position and repeat, drop advocacy, synthesize and integrate.
• 7:52 AM darinrking - Have students work both sides of an issue.
• 7:53 AM darinrking - Deanna Kuhn is lead researcher on this with inner city schools.
• 7:54 AM darinrking - Multi-tasking research coming up
• 7:55 AM darinrking - Kids are actually better at Mult-tasking because they are younger. You hit your max as multitasker in your 20’s and 30’s. After that we go downhill unless we practice.
• 7:56 AM darinrking - Multitasking is really just doing things very fast in sequence.
• 7:56 AM darinrking - Recent research suggest information workers spend 10 minutes or less on a single task
• 7:57 AM darinrking - “Continuous Partial Attention”
• 7:58 AM darinrking - Background tasking. Listening to music when watching TV. etc.
• 7:59 AM darinrking - Distracted vs Focused. You are using a different part of your memory when you are distracted.
• 7:59 AM darinrking - We need to help kids understand when to multi-task and when they shouldn’t
• 7:59 AM darinrking - Some emerging research suggests kids brains are being rewired
• 7:59 AM darinrking - Multimodal Learning:
• 8:02 AM darinrking - Visual Complexity website. Trying to use visual to represent data in new ways. Seem complex at first, but they are interactive. We need kids to understand this new way to represent data.
• 8:03 AM darinrking - Showing a video for iEARN website.
• 8:05 AM darinrking - Adobe Youth Voices Video. “The Hidden Cost of Cashmere”
• 8:05 AM darinrking - Unique video. Great example of a student giving voice to presentation
• 8:08 AM darinrking - Visual Investigations: Using TED Conference video. Using visual interactive data to compare birth rates, family size, and life expectancy over the past 40 years. Classic. Must go find it and watch it.
• 8:09 AM darinrking - GapMinder.com is where the visual data tools are….
• 8:11 AM darinrking - Mayer and Moreno research on visual learning. Has good guidelines for promoting effective visual learning. Ex-never speak the same words that are on the screen or in the graphic. DON’T put notes on PowerPoint Slides! Creates auditory and visual conflicts
• 8:12 AM darinrking - Engagement: Metiri has been study this…difference between the types of engagement
• 8:12 AM darinrking - Cognitive, emotional, social engagement
• 8:12 AM darinrking - Levels of Engagement: intrinsic, tactical, compliant, withdrawn, defiant
• 8:15 AM darinrking - Attribution Research: Kids have a fixed or growth model of intelligence. Dr. Carol Dweck studies. Taught kids about how the brain works which allowed low achieving students in Math to perform much better.
• 8:15 AM darinrking - Kids then understand that they can control their outcomes. They attribute success and failure to the real reasons why.
• 8:16 AM darinrking - “What movie is playing in your students head?” You can change the movie.
• 8:16 AM darinrking - Motivation to Achieve: Does the student believe they can achieve? Is it important to success?
• 8:17 AM darinrking - Self Direction: Set goals, plan, independently manage plan, assess their own quality. You can build this in kids.
• 8:17 AM darinrking - Relatedness: student-student, teacher-student, sense of community, valued member.
• 8:18 AM darinrking - We have been ignoring relatedness and need to get back to it…research is very clear that you will keep kids in school and get them to graduate if they feel connected.
• 8:19 AM darinrking - Wrapping up.
• 8:19 AM darinrking - Web2.0 foundations: collaboration, multimodal learning, multitasking, engagement.
• 8:19 AM darinrking - Cheryl will post her slides, I will post the URL when I get it.
• 8:21 AM darinrking - Wikispace is:
• 8:21 AM darinrking - The wiki is not there yet, but it will be.
• 8:22 AM darinrking - Session over, off to the next one

• 12:14 PM darinrking - Few minutes late for session on Sign Sign On type systems.
• 12:14 PM darinrking - Not a single product, rather and architecture
• 12:15 PM darinrking - Speaker is CTO from Poway CA school district
• 12:16 PM darinrking - First Steps. Vision, assess network and services, don’t try to build it in one project, out source when necessary, look for low hanging fruit (easy to hard)
• 12:16 PM darinrking - This is called Service Oriented Architecture SOA in techie terms
• 12:19 PM darinrking - Important considerations: make it simple/intuitive, start with needs not wants, determine how SOA can help business process, choose right vendors, security
• 12:19 PM darinrking - Poway’s goal is to have every student have a device with net connection at home
• 12:23 PM darinrking - A few vendors were having issues also in the exhibit hall with wireless here
• 12:23 PM darinrking - He is logging in and showing us the MyPlan site. Logging
• 12:23 PM darinrking - We are back. Wireless issues here, kicked out the presenter also
• 12:24 PM darinrking - OK, now he is logged in as a parent
• 12:24 PM darinrking - SOA knows who the parent is, delivers right content. Students, grades, attendance
• 12:25 PM darinrking - The data is updated each night, so data is not live. Moving to a new SIS and then the data will be live.
• 12:25 PM darinrking - Links to school info, Blackboard with the student’s classes, assignments, etc
• 12:26 PM darinrking - one stop shop for parents
• 12:26 PM darinrking - Now accessing historical data. MAP scores, state assessments, etc. All from their data warehouse. Have comparison graphics against district and state data.
• 12:27 PM darinrking - This is truly a vision of what we should be providing to our parents
• 12:28 PM darinrking - MAP data is color coded for parents. Red means mandatory intervention, white is optional intervention, Green is good. Very easy to understand without having to explain MAP or RIT scores to parents.
• 12:30 PM darinrking - Now linking student assessment scores directly to the benchmarks so parents can see exactly where they are weak. Click on a standard and the parent will be taken to a software delivered lesson on the standard. Wow. Student portal connects this way also.
• 12:30 PM darinrking - Teachers can tell students to go online tonight, practice the standard (with online lesson) and tomorrow we will go through it. True pre-learning
• 12:32 PM wfryer - Now live on Ustream from COSN – Horizon’s Emerging Technology Report – http://tinyurl.com/2cklb7
• 12:32 PM darinrking - Not to compete with me, but Wes is uStreaming the k12 Horizon report from a different room. See link below.
• 12:33 PM darinrking - Now showing the student portal. SOA again. All their info is there, current grades, attendance, transcripts, blackboard classes, assignments…EVERYTHING
• 12:34 PM darinrking - Pulled that Tweet from Wes in to my live blog directly from Twitter. ScribbleLive has a way I can search and add tweets on the fly. Pretty cool.
• 12:35 PM darinrking - This just in. ND releases Economic Stimulus Executive Recommendation today. Go to:
• 12:36 PM darinrking - Now back to regular programming. Poway just wrapping up, moving to next presentor on SOA
• 12:37 PM darinrking - Eric Wiebe from NC, The Friday Institute for Ed Innovation
• 12:37 PM darinrking - Creating a virtual computer lab project at NC State.
• 12:38 PM darinrking - Background issues: TCO, need flexibility, hardware limitations, maintain software on school computer. Looking at 1:1 program and trying to figure out how to manage all of this.
• 12:38 PM darinrking - This is about Desktop as a Service. DaaS
• 12:40 PM darinrking - remote desktop software connect to servers, use SOA for single signon. Use blade servers and virtualization to whip image after each use. SAN solutions to manage disk space.
• 12:40 PM darinrking - Connecting to a virtual desktop via a web browser. Any computer, any where access to the applications, file shares, online services, etc. Very nice.
• 12:41 PM darinrking - Any browser enabled device also. Laptop, desktop, mac, wintel, linux, iPod, palm, etc
• 12:43 PM darinrking - teachers can reserve “space” on the blade servers for class. For example, image with Photoshop, teacher can reserve her class so they can login and use the Photoshop application delivered to their desktop via browser. Amazing.
• 12:43 PM darinrking - he is on a Mac but he has a Windows desktop running in a browser window.
• 12:44 PM darinrking - Saw a demo of a similar solution in the vendor area this morning. This is a home grown at NC State, the vendor option is an out of the box solution to deliver a similar concept.
• 12:46 PM darinrking - Doing a pilot study: Study Goals: what are the logistical challenge. How will it scale? What are the best practices?
• 12:47 PM darinrking - Testing with 300 college students using MS Office software, also testing with high impact software like AutoCAD. Gather data on user experience, instructor experience, etc on the method
• 12:47 PM darinrking - Looking at logs of the system to determine best practices for the “back of the house” server/network infrastructure
• 12:48 PM darinrking - Not many problems in the pilot. Some with flash drive access, occaisional slowness
• 12:49 PM wfryer - OK, I’m back on Ustream from COSN with the Horizon report session, now on a paid wifi connection – http://tinyurl.com/2cklb7
• 12:49 PM bengrey - Kathy Boone- “You want to be careful not to let the tail of assessment wag the dog of learning.” #cosn09
• 12:50 PM darinrking - this guy is a bit dry. Too much techie detail even for me.
• 12:52 PM darinrking - Important factors: resources are limited by peak demands, management of loads over the course of the school day, Open use outside of school day, tuning of reservation of images…if you don’t use it, you lose it and someone else can use it
• 12:52 PM darinrking - Scheduling issues are basically like scheduling a traditional computer lab.
• 12:53 PM darinrking - The system allowed students access to software at home that they did not have access to except at school. That is the powerful concept. Anytime, anywhere access to the software
• 12:53 PM darinrking - Isn’t this better than forcing students/teachers to aquiring illegal copies of software for home use?
• 12:57 PM darinrking - Students need to understand that they can’t save files in the virtual desktop. They must still save locally.
• 12:59 PM darinrking - We are back. Wireless dropped again.
• 1:01 PM darinrking - Talking about software licensing right now. There are hurdles to be crossed. Ex-MS Windows XP allows this, MS Vista does not.
• 1:01 PM darinrking - Session over, going back to vendor session for rest of the afternoon. Time to charge the battery. More to come tomorrow!

• 10:14 AM darinrking - Preparing students for double digit growth. Actionable data, aligned conversations, communications
• 10:14 AM darinrking - Aligned conversations. Supt to Princ, Princ to teacher, Teacher to parent
• 10:15 AM darinrking - Create standard reports that people need to make decisions. Must work with each data consumer to decided these
• 10:15 AM darinrking - Reports must drill down from district to school to classroom
• 10:16 AM darinrking - Align secondary grades with standardized test performance to have conversations about learning
• 10:16 AM darinrking - Gainers, stickers and sliders report. Look at by district, school, class, teacher, subgroup, etc.
• 10:18 AM darinrking - Looking at benchmark data. 5 schools to come out of program improvement. Formative assessment data used constantly by teachers for intervention.
• 10:20 AM darinrking - Common action planning by teachers, principals, specialists using data
• 10:20 AM darinrking - Data walls using colored labels and sticky notes in the teachers lounge. Keeps it very visible where every one is at.
• 10:22 AM darinrking - Case study comparisons. Longitudinal graphs of assessment data over time. Broken down my sub groups.
• 10:23 AM darinrking - Interesting analysis comparing grades to state assessment data.
• 10:24 AM darinrking - Used data to discover girls were not taking AP courses. Developed gender alike classes and now more girls take Calc than boys.
• 10:24 AM darinrking - They are closing the gap between sub groups since 2001
• 10:25 AM darinrking - Changing to a culture of using data daily is the difference
• 10:25 AM darinrking - This presenter is from San Jose USD.
• 10:27 AM darinrking - Requirements for success: Time for collaboration, aligned conversations, data team development, actionable data, common formative assessments, ongoing improvement process. Everyone is looking at each other’s data.
• 10:27 AM darinrking - Next presenter from Marion County
• 10:28 AM darinrking - Parents are key partners as well as kids. They do not use the data to evaluate teachers. Thus, their teachers union is behind them. They have the full support of the union and actually had the union help develop the plan. Create a culture of trust.
• 10:29 AM darinrking - Marion County FL, Different than the CA presenter. State curriculum in FL,
• 10:30 AM darinrking - Today in FL all 12th graders are taking the state test. Their graduation depends on how they do. Hummmmm. Think maybe that is why we have a dropout issue?
• 10:32 AM darinrking - Marion Cnty: 42,500 students, 59% white. 55% free and reduced. Rural, large geographic county.
• 10:32 AM darinrking - Every school is graded A-F in FL.
• 10:33 AM darinrking - Showing growth data for their district. Constant growth. Bump in 2005 with new leadership that changed focus of district, even more growth.
• 10:33 AM darinrking - Worked with Pearson Inform to align programs to improvement plans
• 10:35 AM darinrking - Improvement efforts are now aligned and focused on improvement goals.
• 10:36 AM darinrking - instructional focus cycle: Plan, do, check, collaborate, act. Then start over with cycle.
• 10:37 AM darinrking - All grades/subjects have a focus calendar. All do the same on the same day with the same outcomes.
• 10:38 AM darinrking - Plan: Data dissaggregation, calendar development
• 10:38 AM darinrking - Do: Direct instructional focus
• 10:38 AM darinrking - Check: Assessment, maintenance, monitoring
• 10:38 AM darinrking - Act: Tutorial, enrichments
• 10:39 AM darinrking - Oops, forgot Collaboration: review data, meet about the data, data meetings at all levels
• 10:40 AM darinrking - Now a different speaker from the same district. HS Principal. challenging population. Moved HS from D to a B on state grading system.
• 10:42 AM darinrking - Data were not used systematically. Teachers were trained to use subject oriented, not data oriented. Had previous bad experiences with data. Perception by teachers was that data was for other peoples use, not the teachers
• 10:44 AM darinrking - Looks very similar to the functionality of Viewpoint
• 10:45 AM darinrking - Battery about dead. Live blogging is over. More later.

• 7:05 AM darinrking - Good Morning, Opening session for today about to start.
• 7:05 AM darinrking - There will be 30 minutes or so of CoSN business meeting stuff. I won’t put you through it. I will start when the keynote starts
• 7:07 AM darinrking - Just noticed time is an hour earlier when this is posted to my blog. Macbook time is right. Must be a setting in ScribbleLive. It is actually just after 8am
• 7:22 AM darinrking - Giving CoSN leadership award to Greg Utecht from Lakeville PS in Minnesota.
• 7:26 AM darinrking - Greg was the best speaker so far. Funny guy!
• 7:27 AM darinrking - Gvining CoSN Team Award to North Kansas City Schools.
• 7:41 AM darinrking - CoSN Board of Directors is dominated by CIO/CTO’s from the south, Minnesota lady was on, just getting off. Lots of NC, GA, CA, TX
• 7:42 AM darinrking - Not a bad thing, just a comment. Wow, this is taking a long time. Tapscott will only get 30 minutes or so at this pace
• 7:44 AM darinrking - CoSN mission: Empowering K12 Technology leaders to use technology effectively in a school setting.
• 7:44 AM darinrking - Toolkit for District Tech leaders/CTO’s in Times of Economic Distress is coming soon from CoSN.
• 7:45 AM darinrking - Toolkit will focus on TCO, TVI, Green Computing and Economic Stimulus Package.
• 7:46 AM darinrking - If you are watching this on ScribbleLive you can comment if you want.
• 7:47 AM darinrking - I have been to CoSN the past two years and two other times a number of years ago. Very impressed with the content and leadership they are generating. Wondering if NDATL should be aligned with CoSN rather than ISTE?
• 7:48 AM darinrking - Survey of Superintendents regarding Web2.0. 77% believe it has value, yet most block social networking sites. Hummmmmmmm
• 7:49 AM darinrking - If you talk the talk you need to walk the walk. My comment, BTW.
• 7:49 AM darinrking - Two are watching, please comment
• 7:49 AM darinrking - Just want to see how I can moderate comments while live blogging
• 7:50 AM darinrking - In ScribbleLive, you can see when people start watching your live blog.
• 7:51 AM darinrking - Making a pitch for CoSN membership. Thinking I will stop being an ISTE member and join CoSN instead.
• 7:52 AM darinrking - ISTE is fine, but what CoSN is doing is really well done and relevant to what I do
• 7:54 AM darinrking - Getting to Don Tapscott finally
• 7:56 AM darinrking - OK, bad seat selection. 2 big screens, one with live video of speaker, other with slides. I am sitting in front of one with video. Moving now.
• 7:58 AM darinrking - Ok, sitting down again, near slide screen.
• 7:58 AM darinrking - Don originally thought his own kids were prodigies because of how well they used tech. The realized all kids were the same and tech saavy
• 8:02 AM darinrking - We can be hopeful about the current generation, he thinks that is a minority view
• 8:02 AM darinrking - Talking about the book “the Dumbest Generation”.
• 8:04 AM darinrking - Don did extensive research and thinks this is the smartest generation. The other books are just making stuff up.
• 8:05 AM darinrking - Interviewed 11,000 young people all over the world for his research
• 8:05 AM darinrking - Net Gen born between 1977-1997
• 8:07 AM darinrking - Schools are in crisis and “they” decided to cut funding and increase testing. If school fail, cut even more funding. Sad but true
• 8:07 AM darinrking - Showing a world map geographically adjusted to show Net Gen population. Interesting
• 8:09 AM darinrking - The Echo (Net Gen) is actually a larger group than the Boomers.
• 8:10 AM darinrking - Time Online has not taken away from traditional “kid” things. TV is what they do less
• 8:10 AM darinrking - Baby Boomers watched 24 hours per week of TV, Netgen much less.
• 8:11 AM darinrking - Instead of being a passive watcher, they are interacting with everything. This generation processes information differently
• 8:12 AM darinrking - Picture of his son watching TV. Three netgens, three TV’s, all three on computer also.
• 8:13 AM darinrking - Comparing the simple culture of the 1950’s with todays complex culture. Mickey Mouse club verses 24
• 8:13 AM darinrking - Showing map now geographically adjusted for access to the Internet. US is large, but China is quickly growing
• 8:14 AM darinrking - First time in history that children are an authority on something important. We now have a Generation Lap, not a Generation Gap
• 8:14 AM darinrking - Kids are lapping their parents on the info lap
• 8:16 AM darinrking - Age 8-18 is a critical period of brain development. Emerging evidence that exposure to new technologies may push netgen brain past conventional capacity limitations
• 8:17 AM darinrking - He asked the kids whether they wanted to be smart or better looking? Every country wanted to be smart except england.
• 8:17 AM darinrking - IQ scores are highest ever. SAT scores are holding or going up.
• 8:18 AM darinrking - Impact of Video Games. Integrated into balanced life, video games have a positive effect.
• 8:20 AM darinrking - Talking about kids being guild masters in World of Warcraft. CEO training ground. They are leading groups of people much older than them. They are “hiring, firing and managing” like a CEO
• 8:22 AM darinrking - Dropout and college graduate data graphs. 30% drop out of HS. Some say this is because of the Internet. He disagrees. Model of pedagogy is all wrong. Still many social issues schools can’t solve. To blame the internet is silly. Like blaming the library for ignorance.
• 8:22 AM darinrking - Baby boomer family org chart. Kids report to mom, mom reports to dad.
• 8:23 AM darinrking - Netgen, kids are in the middle now, like concentric circles. Parents next, then grandparents. Adult kids back living with parents after college is not necessarily a bad thing
• 8:26 AM darinrking - His son created a Facebook community around his Wikinomics book. Within a day it had hundreds of members in 9 countries. One asked how he, the author, would contribute to “their” community. Pretty dumb kids, huh?
• 8:27 AM darinrking - Civic engagement is at an all time high because of the netgen
• 8:28 AM darinrking - Netgen volunteer more than Gen X or Baby Boomers.
• 8:32 AM darinrking - sorry, lost my wireless connection, back now. Problem fixed
• 8:33 AM darinrking - Netgen view email as “formal” communication. They use it with adult.
• 8:33 AM darinrking - The cream of the crop of students in Universities are basically boycotting traditional pedagogy.
• 8:33 AM darinrking - They have a goal to get an A and never go to class
• 8:34 AM darinrking - We (non Netgen) are just afraid. This is about the fear of the unknown.
• 8:35 AM darinrking - talking about kids getting an allowance to install and maintain the blocking software on the home computer. Funny and sad at the same time
• 8:35 AM darinrking - Designing for the netgen: Freedom, customization, scrutiny, integrity, collaboration, entertainment, speed, innovation
• 8:36 AM darinrking - We need to change the culture of work to reflect the Netgen norms and expectations.
• 8:37 AM darinrking - We look at the cover of a magazine and we see an actress. Netgen see an actress that has been photoshopped to eliminate physical flaws.
• 8:39 AM darinrking - Today, working, learning, collaborating and having fun are the same thing to the netgen
• 8:39 AM darinrking - Looks like I might have lost the connection to my blog. Network issues back in NoDak?
• 8:40 AM darinrking - Net connection back, temporary burp
• 8:40 AM darinrking - This is a generation we can be very hopeful about.
• 8:40 AM darinrking - Implications for education
• 8:41 AM darinrking - Need to change from “broadcast” education to Interactive learning
• 8:41 AM darinrking - Institutions of work are now becoming institutions of learning. We must constantly re-invent our knowledgebase
• 8:41 AM darinrking - Not just about the ability to perform on tests
• 8:42 AM darinrking - Drill and kill, memorization does not work with netgen
• 8:43 AM darinrking - Every kid in Portugal is getting a laptop. K-12. High speed wireless connection.
• 8:44 AM darinrking - If little Portugal can do it, why can’t we?
• 8:44 AM darinrking - the teacher is no longer the transmitter of data, they coordinate learning.
• 8:45 AM darinrking - Looks like they are using Classmate netbooks in the pictures.
• 8:46 AM darinrking - Teacher asks a question, the kids all head out to their favorite site (Google, Wikipedia, etc) and quickly find the answer.
• 8:46 AM darinrking - The pedagogical model is all wrong in America for the netgen
• 8:49 AM darinrking - Telling a great story about interviewing a netgen college student. hard to capture, but powerful.
• 8:51 AM darinrking - A student, president of student council, 18 committees, sports, setup a clinic after Katrina in the 9th ward as a volunteer. Organized an international exchange and involved world leaders.
• 8:51 AM darinrking - Oh, by the way. This netgen college student doesn’t read books the way we do. The Internet is his book and source of all information.
• 8:52 AM darinrking - He only finds the information in a book he needs and finds it in Google Books, just finds and consumes what he needs.
• 8:53 AM darinrking - We must re-invent education to a student focused, multi-way, customized and collaborative environment.
• 8:53 AM darinrking - Virgina Tech Math Dept. No lectures. All online and collaborative
• 8:55 AM darinrking - Cary Academy in NC. Greenwood College School in CO. these are examples
• 8:57 AM darinrking - Seven guidlines for educators: Don’t throw tech into classroosm, cut back on lecture, empower students to collaborate, focus on lifelong learning, use tech to get to know students, use the 8 norms for netgen to design ed programs and re-invent yourself as a teacher, professor or educator.
• 8:59 AM darinrking - This should be exciting! Who actually gets the chance to completely reinvent their profession? Disturbed that teachers are resistant
• 9:02 AM darinrking - The Net Gen Educational Challenge. Trying to create a community that is having deep discussions about changing the system. Go To:
• 9:07 AM darinrking - Doing a textmessage survey. What is holding us up?
• 9:08 AM darinrking - looks like my blog is down again…
• 9:08 AM darinrking - having tech difficulties with the presentation. Even happens at a tech conference
• 9:11 AM darinrking - One thing is for sure, the next period will not be boring.
• 9:11 AM darinrking - All done. Heading to a vendor meeting.
• 9:11 AM darinrking - Wrapping up. Not trying to be mean today. Just trying to help move the issue. Create a social movement to ensure the birthright of todays generation. They have a right to a new model of pedogogy that is right for THEM.
• 9:11 AM darinrking - Looks like the network into gfschools.org is down.
• 9:12 AM darinrking - He is dtapscott on Twitter
• 9:13 AM darinrking - The strange order of the posts on my blog are a result of the network issues back in Grand Forks, sorry.

• 1:49 PM darinrking - Bailey Mitchell, Forsyth GA PS
• 1:49 PM darinrking - Spends $19 per student, per year on online resources. Discovery streaming, BrainPop, etc.
• 1:50 PM darinrking - 1:1, ActivBoards in every classroom. Money is not a big issue there
• 1:50 PM darinrking - Spend about $70 per year on textbooks.
• 1:51 PM darinrking - Being a CITO is like someone controlling a dam. How you use the power will affect how people perceive you in the district.
• 1:51 PM darinrking - You need to set the tone with passion. Make your ideas irresistible to agree with.
• 1:52 PM darinrking - Your job is as a relationship architect
• 1:52 PM darinrking - Also an advocate, venture capitalist, information steward and lobbyist
• 1:52 PM darinrking - Every organization has their “Middle East”. Understand all factions
• 1:54 PM darinrking - The future of CTO is to be a full fledged member of the management team weighing in on discussions and decisions that have nothing to do with IT. They need your project management skills and ability to plan, start, implement, and assess projects.
• 1:55 PM darinrking - Skills you need: Leadership and management, financial, organizational and culture skills, technology and business skill.
• 1:55 PM darinrking - CTO’s need to attend all classes necessary to be a superintendent or business manager
• 1:55 PM darinrking - They need that background to be effective
• 1:56 PM darinrking - You must gain a strategic understanding of your colleagues. What keeps your Superintendent up at night?
• 1:57 PM darinrking - You need to delegate to “keep the shop running”. The job of a CITO is to develop the necessary relationships to integrate with the other areas in your district.
• 1:57 PM darinrking - Must have the ability to connect the people networks and the information silos.
• 2:00 PM darinrking - Connect IT to the political will of the decision makers. Create good will. Quick implementation. Learn to deliver quick and good enough. Sometimes we take so long to implement that it is obsolete when the project is finally done. Wise words.
• 2:00 PM darinrking - CITO’s must step up or step back
• 2:01 PM darinrking - Needs to pull away from the tactical and more towards the strategic.
• 2:02 PM darinrking - Must build trust and then demonstrate the trust. Have each other’s back.
• 2:03 PM darinrking - Have a clear vision and communicate it
• 2:03 PM darinrking - Clean up your language. Keep it to terms people understand. Don’t “Geek Speak”
• 2:05 PM darinrking - I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize what I said. Good quote
• 2:06 PM darinrking - You must be focused on customer service.
• 2:07 PM darinrking - We often control the conversation, the data and the solutions. We need to honestly ask our colleagues about this.
• 2:08 PM darinrking - You must exhibit courage. Bailey’s example was to turn off Microsoft Office and move to Open Office. Will save over 1.1 million over 3 years. Not everyone was very happy about it. Not about MS Office, it is about what you can do with the extra funds.
• 2:09 PM darinrking - Question: How did business ed react? They exempted that department. His Superintendent did think it was that great of idea, but fiscal note convinced him.
• 2:10 PM darinrking - Talking about COSN’s framework for essential skills for CITO’s.
• 2:11 PM darinrking - His department is in three groups: Technical services, Information services, Instructional services.
• 2:12 PM darinrking - Web 2.0. He is grappling with it in his own district.
• 2:14 PM darinrking - Sharing a video. Using clip from Back to the Future. Clip where he jams with Chuck Berry. The look on Chuck Berrys face is what many look like when we talk web 2.0. Great example.
• 2:14 PM darinrking - Some immediately get it, others need to actually participate to get it.
• 2:14 PM darinrking - The kids get it and jam right along with him. The band has trouble keeping up.
• 2:15 PM darinrking - Chuck Berry gets it right away and calls his brother. Epiphany moment.
• 2:16 PM darinrking - Go YouTube it and think about Web2.0. Great example. The looks he gets at the are great, then he says “I guess you guys aren’t ready yet, but your kids will love it”.
• 2:17 PM darinrking - We all could be like him and not realize our audience doesn’t get it and scare them away.
• 2:18 PM darinrking - On to devices. Netbooks, handhelds. Believes every child will have a device. And parents will expect their students will be able to use THEIR device.
• 2:19 PM darinrking - As a school district, we almost have to operate a walled garden approach. Angel Learning has some of the Web2.0 functionality built in.
• 2:20 PM darinrking - Walled garden should be “welcome to the jungle”. It is coming, regardless of what we want or think. We won’t be able to continue to ban devices. We should direct our efforts to provide for these devices while addressing appropriateness, safety, security, etc.
• 2:21 PM darinrking - The species most likely to survive is the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
• 2:22 PM darinrking - We must sit at the table where instructional conversations are taking place. You can’t take no for an answer.
• 2:22 PM darinrking - Moving on to the second table activity.
• 2:27 PM darinrking - Table Activity: Should student personal devices be banned from school?
• 2:48 PM darinrking - The whole table allows students to bring in their own devices and attach to the network. Some provide walled off VPN’s, other’s don’t.
• 2:49 PM darinrking - Some allow cellphones, iPods, etc. as long as they are not a distraction. When they are, they deal with it. Wow, what a concept!
• 2:51 PM darinrking - Related note. Georgia uses a product called eBoards Solution. Paperless school board portal for use during and not during meetings by board members. Models for the rest of the district.
• 2:53 PM darinrking - Kansas City PS says “bring it on” to student use of personal devices. Open use but use in classrooms is open to the individual teacher. They are encouraging teachers to learn how to embrace student technology.
• 2:53 PM darinrking - They clearly communicate that the student assumes all risk by bringing devices to schools.
• 2:54 PM darinrking - Keep AUP policy at board level and broad. Use administrative procedures that are more flexible and adaptable to change. This includes cellphones, personal device use.
• 2:56 PM darinrking - Forsyth is working with the principals that “get it” first developing best practices. They are allowing those resistant principals time to come to grip with it.
• 2:56 PM darinrking - Analogy is with online grades. Stay out of policies regarding how often teachers post grades. Parents will take care of that at the building level.
• 2:58 PM darinrking - Off topic, back to textbooks. Need to teach new literacy skills to help students adapt to using online resources.
• 2:59 PM darinrking - Open up the networks and hold people accountable for what they do. Or don’t do.
• 2:59 PM darinrking - Social Networks. What is an appropriate use of social networks?
• 3:01 PM darinrking - Opened up the network for teachers, but put systems in place to closely track all computer use. Where they are, what they are doing, when they are doing it.
• 3:01 PM darinrking - Same with students. Allowing teachers and students to make choices.
• 3:03 PM darinrking - One district using Live@edu from Microsoft. Free. Like Moodle and MySpace. Each person gets 25 gigs space, 10 gigs of email space. Teachers get LiveMeeting account to collaborate with kids.
• 3:03 PM darinrking - get.liveatedu.com
• 3:06 PM darinrking - NYC schools: Some radical things happening there. No school board anymore. Mayor has direct control. He hires the chancellor. Instructional technology dept taken over by accountability and assessment department. Built huge knowledge management system. Social networking environment for teachers with access to the data.
• 3:08 PM darinrking - NYC developing model schools, very nontraditional. No traditional classrooms. Core curriculum is all in Moodle. Students work at own pace. Still have some seat time because state requires it, but much less.
• 3:10 PM darinrking - Atmosphere at these model schools in NYC are a cross between Starbucks, a library and a living room.
• 3:11 PM darinrking - Lady talking is very passionate about the concept. Technology is cloud based, hardware agnostic. If a device goes down, they just move to another. Laptop, desktop, netbook, ipod…doesn’t matter.
• 3:13 PM darinrking - Next question: What does “anytime, anywhere learning” mean? Different for every district due to local issues.
• 3:14 PM darinrking - Back to Bill from Gartner Group.
• 3:15 PM darinrking - It is not time for Education to have business as usual.
• 3:15 PM darinrking - Key issues: Business Alignment, Communicate with stakeholders, budget can be a catalyst for change.
• 3:16 PM darinrking - Frameworks to get the conversation going: A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
• 3:17 PM darinrking - IT as a percentage of revenue. 2.7% is average for K12 technology. Where are you at?
• 3:18 PM darinrking - The value of IT is as important of issue as there is in K12. It impacts the other areas.
• 3:18 PM darinrking - Most common thing a superintendent has done to respond to budget crisis is lower thermostats.
• 3:19 PM darinrking - We need to quantify
• 3:19 PM darinrking - Three step Total Value of Ownership process: Analysis, Review in terms of categories, TVO discussion and agreement.
• 3:20 PM darinrking - Hard to capture, will post the presentation later.
• 3:20 PM darinrking - Categories are TCO, Risk vs reward, Educational fit, technology emphasis, relative value
• 3:21 PM darinrking - The categories feed into Operational efficiency, constituent service level and political reform. The end of these three is the TVO
• 3:22 PM darinrking - TCO: Direct and indirect costs of technology. Direct is cost of computer, indirect is cost to support.
• 3:23 PM darinrking - Indirect costs are also when your users have to work to get the technology work
• 3:24 PM darinrking - Congruence model for understanding school districts. Scatter plot of spending per pupil, governance, complexity, e-rate discount and enrollment.
• 3:25 PM darinrking - Can use to compare two school districts. Can take the model and put in TCO data for direct and indirect spending on technology. Can provide insight into your IT spending. This is Gartners research.
• 3:26 PM darinrking - Excellent desktop management, 4 year hardware refresh, all lead to very low indirect costs, which raises TVO and TCO.
• 3:27 PM darinrking - TCO is usually $1100 per device per year in K12
• 3:27 PM darinrking - Attempt should be to lower the indirect costs so that more can be spend on direct costs.
• 3:28 PM darinrking - Ed Technology Opportunity Matrix. AKA the Threat Matrix. Rubic 0-3 that outlines what you all agree on as the risk/reward factors.
• 3:29 PM darinrking - The ETOM places you on a matrix to help with decision making
• 3:30 PM darinrking - Use this tool with a broad group of stakeholders to help understand where you are at.
• 3:31 PM darinrking - Running out of battery, might end soon not by my choice
• 3:32 PM darinrking - Triple E test. Efficent, economy, effective. Find the sweet spot between all three.
• 3:32 PM darinrking - Effective is not test scores, but rather the opportunity to meet learner goals
• 3:35 PM darinrking - Triangle of relative value. Axis are cost, time, people. Largest triangle is the greatest value. Used to discover where the priorities are at.
• 3:36 PM darinrking - Must also use benchmarking of your costs to understand if your costs
• 3:37 PM darinrking - Gartner data shows that size does matter. The more we pull in and manage with one group we get the economy of scale.
• 3:39 PM darinrking - You MUST establish and communicate value
• 3:42 PM darinrking - Recommendations for easy cost savings: Eliminate extended warranties, review disaster recovery plans, analyze hardware/software upgrade paths, get your sofware house in order, ensure printers are used appropriately.
• 3:45 PM darinrking - Confiscate under under used equipment. Good advice.
• 3:46 PM darinrking - Get usage data on “nice to have” technology
• 3:47 PM darinrking - 5 courses of action to create opportunities in tight budgets. Continue, focus, consolidate, initiate, stop.
• 3:52 PM darinrking - Economic stimulus package. If just money will do it we would have done it along time ago.
• 3:52 PM darinrking - Not as much money as you think when calculated per student.
• 3:53 PM darinrking - Stimulus package does single out ed tech as important enough to warrant some of the stimulus money.
• 3:53 PM darinrking - Many states only provide ed tech dollars through Title IID
• 3:55 PM darinrking - Bad is that fed $$ helps some not value IT as a local investment.
• 3:55 PM darinrking - Back to we must get local stakeholders to value ed tech
• 3:56 PM darinrking - Making the point that ed tech must be viewed as a ongoing expense, not one time events
• 3:57 PM darinrking - Eliminate legacy thinking and arcane process
• 3:58 PM darinrking - Perfection is the enemy of good enough.
• 3:58 PM darinrking - If we want to get off Gilligans Island we must change.
• 3:59 PM darinrking - We are done, off to meet with SchoolCenter reps….more tomorrow

• 11:37 AM darinrking - Just Getting started. Bill Rust from Gartner Group and Bailey Mitchell, CTIO Forsyth County Schools in Georgia
• 11:40 AM darinrking - Round table introductions, about 30 in session
• 11:41 AM darinrking - Lots of Texas tech directors…both large and small schools.
• 11:41 AM darinrking - BrainPOP reps attending.
• 11:43 AM darinrking - Funny. Texas tech dir says her Superintendent is completely on board with Web 2.0, he just doesn’t know what it is yet. She is here to set the direction!
• 11:44 AM darinrking - Great diverse group. CTO, CIO, Librarians, Tech trainers
• 11:45 AM darinrking - Educational service agencies also here….like EduTech
• 11:46 AM darinrking - Ludden Montana is in the house. Lost the award for the furthest travel.
• 11:48 AM darinrking - Down south, Tech Directors are called Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers or Chief Technology and Information Officer.
• 11:49 AM darinrking - Using ActiveExpressions to interact with presenters
• 11:51 AM darinrking - Most of the attendees are Titled Technology Director. Commenting that the change is to CIO and CTO or CTIO. It is about how you are perceived in your district.
• 11:52 AM darinrking - Most of the attendees have education background, business/industry second
• 11:53 AM darinrking - Background in business/industry important? Pretty spread out opinions. I was indifferent
• 11:54 AM darinrking - Importance of background in Technology? Most agree
• 11:55 AM darinrking - Background in Education? Most strongly agree! Yea
• 11:56 AM darinrking - Who do we report to? Most either Supt or Assoc Supt
• 11:58 AM darinrking - Member of the Superintendent’s cabinet? Evenly split, slightly higher yes.
• 11:59 AM darinrking - Involved in Instructional Decisions? Either most or some is the most common answer. Person from crowd asked “before or after the decision?” Good laugh from everyone.
• 12:00 PM darinrking - Most are here to address critical education trends or to make the case for technology funding.
• 12:00 PM darinrking - Presenters will use our answers during the rest of the presentation.
• 12:02 PM darinrking - Moving on to Bill Rust from Gartner Group
• 12:04 PM darinrking - We are at a point time when things are changing fast. Using a Gilligans Island analogy to explain where we are. We have school districts that align to each character. But none of them ever got off the island.
• 12:05 PM darinrking - It is time to get off the island. The things that we did to grow ed tech are not enough to continue with technology in schools
• 12:06 PM darinrking - Will address strategic, tactical, emerging trends, changes in IT industry, business alignment and value of IT, Opportunity in face of challenge.
• 12:06 PM darinrking - New digital divide. Divide is between those who know what to do with what they have and those that have a lot.
• 12:07 PM darinrking - Nice, quote. We have more “stuff” than ever. It is what we do with it.
• 12:08 PM darinrking - Changing learner, Accountability, Accessibility of tech, Internal and external demands for participation create the divide.
• 12:08 PM darinrking - also points out the changing nature of the parents.
• 12:09 PM darinrking - Need to find the “sweet spot” between people, process and tools.
• 12:09 PM darinrking - Ubiquitous, but not necessarily homogenous technology. Laptops, PDA, cellphones. Most have started to combine phone and PDA.
• 12:11 PM darinrking - Talking about rules to stop the use of cellphones in schools. We need to account for them, not ban them. Yea! Think about how we can leverage cellphones, not ban them.Teach kids when it is appropriate to use them.
• 12:12 PM darinrking - Some institutions are adapting. Vanderbuilt University
• 12:12 PM darinrking - Please excuse spelling errors, going fast.
• 12:13 PM darinrking - Put everyone against ed tech in a line at store where cashier is still manuall punching in each item instead of scanning.
• 12:13 PM darinrking - Talking Digital natives vs Digital Immigrants
• 12:14 PM darinrking - Don’t throw everything out, just try to take advantage
• 12:14 PM darinrking - Libraries: Less reliance on traditional “paper” resources and more reliance on external resources
• 12:15 PM darinrking - Extending the learning and working environment. eLearning, work from home. Looking at a change from bricks and mortar paradigm. Distance is no longer a factor
• 12:17 PM darinrking - Should we pay more attention to productivity than attendance? Schools are all about attendance today.
• 12:18 PM darinrking - Either synchronous or asynchronous to help education and productivity. Location is less important. Still need to meet sometimes, but not everyday
• 12:18 PM darinrking - Would most teachers prefer to supervise lunchroom or supervise a classroom of students all working on different subjects?
• 12:19 PM darinrking - Talking about NCLB and DDD making. Right thing to do, but most districts needed to spend $$$$$ for data warehouses
• 12:20 PM darinrking - NCLB part 2, with new administration, same thing but with some $$$.
• 12:21 PM darinrking - Need extensive ERP (Financial/HR) system to extended accountablity. This data usually “locked away” in central office. Need to extend this data to all stakeholders.
• 12:22 PM darinrking - Virginia Beach City Public Schools Student Portal. Make sure everyone is empowered to have access to up to data accurate data.
• 12:22 PM darinrking - One stop shop for students. Even gave teachers the rights to reset student passwords. Need to empower to be successful.
• 12:23 PM darinrking - D3A2 project from Ohio. Directionally a good idea. Ohio state dept of ed figured out people where not happy with data collection process. Roach motel of data collection. Data goes in never comes out.
• 12:25 PM darinrking - Each teacher gets an online snapshot of where the students are against state standards, then links to purchased curriculum to help teachers guide student instruction on weak areas.
• 12:26 PM darinrking - Plano ISD ERP model. One database for student, financial and HR data. Also analytics for the data. “Which algebra series works best for students?” “What higher ed schools of education are producing the most successful teachers?”. Those questions can be answered with a consolidated ERP
• 12:28 PM darinrking - 1:1 programs as currently and typically implemented are not going to make it. Too high of cost. Done politically right now, so not sustainable. At least 50% fail, more will because of the economy.
• 12:28 PM darinrking - Hybrid personal computing devices are the future (netbooks). Showing the Nova 5000 as an example
• 12:29 PM darinrking - Price point of $399 or less. Still not good enough. Need curriculum on it tho. TEXTBOOK need to be on it for success
• 12:30 PM darinrking - Get rid of the 35 pounds of books that get lost and damaged every year. Yea!
• 12:30 PM darinrking - Textbooks are old the minute they are released.
• 12:30 PM darinrking - Textbooks companies can still win. They save on production and distribution, pass savings on to us, still make money.
• 12:32 PM darinrking - Textbook publishers will tell you they already doing this. In next few years, major textbook companies will go under. Niche eContent companies will grow in the major providers.
• 12:32 PM darinrking - Traditional textbook companies will become irrelevant because they are not meeting our needs.
• 12:33 PM darinrking - Why buy copies of “Catcher of the Rye” in print. Can get electronic versions of many of the books students read for much less than print.
• 12:34 PM darinrking - This is a political issue in many states. Big textbooks companies extensively lobby state lawmakers to continue with traditional textbooks.
• 12:38 PM darinrking - BTW, using a MacBook Pro today. No one else from NoDak here, so no picture evidence.
• 12:39 PM darinrking - Getting rid of textbooks is an education, financial and GreenIT issue
• 12:40 PM darinrking - Why IT is under attack. “Lassie” stories, “poor us” stories, “I believe appeals”. We give Timmy a computer and he finds Lassie.
• 12:41 PM darinrking - We need to put the emotional appeals away. We need to make a “business case”
• 12:41 PM darinrking - Total cost of ownership, Total Value of Opportunity will both need to be supported
• 12:42 PM darinrking - TCO for PC’s is dropping and will continue to drop. Better equipment for less. Use good desktop management. Users are getting smarter, fewer “cockpit” errors.
• 12:43 PM darinrking - A low TCO is not always good, and high TCO is not always bad.
• 12:44 PM darinrking - GreenIT information. We all need to measure it.
• 12:44 PM darinrking - Not easy being green
• 12:44 PM darinrking - There will be some level of accountability for GreenIT. Low accountability, low intervention. High accountability, High interventions.
• 12:46 PM darinrking - Three orders of GreenIT. Too much to blog right now.
• 12:46 PM darinrking - Will post the slide of the presentation later.
• 12:46 PM darinrking - Final advice on GreenIT. Keep score now so you are ready to answer questions.
• 12:47 PM darinrking - Software as a Service (SAAS). by 2012 50% of school districts will employ and ERP system through SAAS. We in NoDak figured this out years ago!
• 12:48 PM darinrking - Who is the customer in Ed Tech? CIO’s should be working strategically with a broader audience. Technicians tend to work more tactically with individuals. Need to align staff to job requirements.
• 12:49 PM darinrking - Less of a dependence on technical skills and more dependence on alignment with the organization. Less on Infrastructure and services, more on design, management and instruction.
• 12:50 PM darinrking - We are in the business of education. Instruction is our core task.
• 12:51 PM darinrking - IT departments will get smaller. Move towards business facing roles. Less than 10% of CIO’s will come from computer science or engineering backgrounds. They will be hired to help with strategic business strategies.
• 12:52 PM darinrking - I like this, since I have always said we (ed IT departments) are in the business of education, not IT.
• 12:52 PM darinrking - Free SAAS. Google apps, etc.
• 12:54 PM darinrking - Other business issues we should get in front of: DTV conversion.
• 12:56 PM darinrking - Again, lets align people with process. The technology will take care of itself.
• 12:57 PM darinrking - Gartner Group has published 4 main domains of Ed Tech. Difference between CIO and CTO. Domains are Vision, Drive, Business Knowledge, and Soft Skills. Lays out the attributes of each in each domain.
• 12:58 PM darinrking - Expectations: Old is what you have. New is what you do with it.
• 12:59 PM darinrking - If you are a district that has sufficient support but has not kept up with stakeholder demands you are in the Fire Zone. Literally.
• 1:00 PM darinrking - If you are going to be a leader, you have to break trail and be in front.
• 1:00 PM darinrking - You will fail sometimes
• 1:00 PM darinrking - Provide solutions, not problems
• 1:01 PM darinrking - Seek best practices, communicate to stakeholders, look ahead, provide solution, understand the business implications.
• 1:02 PM darinrking - Wrapping up the Gartner presentation. Question and Answer session
• 1:03 PM darinrking - Taking a break, will start a new scribblelive session then. Bye

I will be using Scribble live to live blog the sessions I attend at COSN next week.  Stay tuned.

I have started and stopped blogging a number of times during the past few years.  My interest in Microblogging via Twitter has made me stop and think how the two mediums could support each other.

Thus, I will attempt to use this blog when a longer more robust post is required.

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