What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media

The Editors Scott McLeod is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. McLeod created the first graduate program built specifically to prepare tech-savvy school leaders at the University of Minnesota. A recognized expert on K−12 school technology leadership issues, McLeod works with educational, corporate, and nonprofit partners to move schools into the twenty-first century. McLeod also serves as the director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) and writes the popular education blog Dangerously Irrelevant (www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org). Chris Lehmann is the founding principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This groundbreaking school, which integrates technology throughout classrooms and administration, has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School and was named one of the “Ten Most Amazing Schools” in Ladies Home Journal. Lehmann was named one of the “30 Most Influential People in EdTech” by Tech & Learning magazine in June 2010 and has received several other distinctions and awards throughout his career. He is a regular speaker and the author of the Practical Theory blog (www.practicaltheory.org).#edtechleadVisit techtoolsforschools.org for additional resources, interviews with chapter authors, and more!

• Foreword viiDavid WarlickIntroduction 11 Blogs 3Kristin Hokanson and Christian Long2 Wikis 13Stephanie Sandifer and Vicki A. Davis3 Podcasts and Webinars 25Steve Dembo and Wesley Fryer4 RSS and RSS Readers 37Will Richardson and Karl Fisch5 Digital Video 45Mathew Needleman6 Virtual Schooling 53Michael Barbour and Richard E. FerdigInterlude: Social Media is Changing the Way We Live and Learn 67Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach7 One- to- One Computing 75Chris Lehmann and Pamela Livingston8 Free and Open Source Software 83Tom Hoffman9 Educational Gaming 93John W. Rice10 Social Bookmarking 101Dean Shareski and Mary Beth Hertz11 Online Mind Mapping 107Carl Anderson and Richard Byrne12 Course Management Systems 117Scott S. Floyd and Miguel GuhlinInterlude: See Sally Research: Evolving Notions of Information Literacy 123Joyce Kasman Valenza and Doug Johnson13 Online Tool Suites 137Diana Laufenberg and Mark Wagner14 Twitter 147Alec Couros and Kevin Jarrett15 Online Images and Visual Literacy 153Kimberly Cofino and David Jakes16 Mobile Phones and Mobile Learning 159Liz Kolb and Sharon Tonner17 Social Networking 173Ewan McIntosh and Jeff UtechtAfterword 183Christopher D. SessumsAbout the Editors 189About the Contributors 191Index 203