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Today’s Meet
– Your Name – What school district and area of the state? – What is your current occupation?– What is your twitter handle?
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Connected Leadership: It’s a click away
Spike C. Cook, Ed.D.
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About Dr. Spike Cook
– Doctorate in Educational Leadership
– Teacher, Guidance Counselor, Coach, Executive Director at Rowan University
– Principal at RM Bacon since April 2011
– www.drspikecook.com
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About RM Bacon
• Millville, NJ• 82% Economically
Disadvantaged • 335 students K – 5
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RM Bacon…Connected • Chosen for the Classroom
Instruction That Works 2nd Edition Video Series
• Chosen for EnVision Math Video Series
• 90% on some type of Social Media
• 50% of staff attends voluntary “Tech Fridays”
• Teachers using Edmodo have connected with Wisconsin, and Illinois for reading groups Spike Cook and Ceri Dean, lead author of
CITWS 2nd Edition
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RM Bacon Connected …
• RM Bacon was featured in the best selling educational book, Digital Leadership, by Eric Sheninger, Chapter 3
• RM Bacon heavily influenced me to write Connected Leadership: It’s a Click Away recently published by Corwin
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RM Bacon On Social Media
• www.rmbaconweekly.blogspot.com
• Weekly Youtube videos• https://
www.facebook.com/RMBaconElementary
• https://twitter.com/BaconElementary
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You have to model it
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What’s your story?
Let’s take a moment to review Todays Meet – What school district and
area of the state? – What is your current
occupation?– What is your twitter
handle?
What did we just do?
• By sharing about ourselves, occupations and twitter handle….. We created a PLN
• What is a PLN?• Why is it important? • How can you use it?
1000 mile journey
• We are all at different stages of our journey into the 21st Century
• Reflect for a minute – Where are you? – Where do you want to be
in a year?– What do you want to
learn about today?
• Pair and Share
Time and Priorities
• How will I have the time?
• When can I connect?• Lurking and Learning
Inner Reflection, Global Exposure
• Blogging, Tweeting, Pinning and Winning
• I don’t have anything to say or write
• Who is going to read this
• Is Social Media is just a brag fest?
Transformation
• Understand why• Paying it forward• Revealing your passion
Connected Leadership is about Engagement
Evaluating Digital Material
• There are hundreds of thousands of choices… how do you make sense of them all?– Avoid the shiny new toy– Develop a process– Seek out the experts– Take chances– Reflect
Strategies for PD (L)(Professional Learning)
• Connect PL to teacher and student learning
• Make it meaningful• “Tech Friday” concept• Let students teach PL• PLC – Everyone has a
place and a voice
First grade student “Panda” taught PD to teachers
Effective Technology Integration
• Systems Approach• Long Term Needs• Invest in Infrastructure • Start Small• Coach, Coach, Coach• Model the Way! • Highlight and tell your
story
Technology Change
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Best Practices
• Roll out the red carpet for those who push the envelope– Acknowledge – Encourage those who try– Pay it forward– Reward
Pitfalls
• It’s hard work• Not everyone will
embrace• It’s not about the
devices, its about the learning
• Digital Divide
Tools of the trade
Connection • Twitter• Facebook• Voxer• Google Hangouts • Skype• SlideShare
Telling your story • Blogs• iMovie Trailer• Letterpop• Animoto • Soundcloud • Gear
– Stickers– Shirts– QR Codes– AR Codes
Tools of the Trade
Continuous Learning • Flipboard• Zite• Podcasts• Corwin Connected Educator
Series• Edutopia• ASCD • EdCamp
– NJ – 11/22– SJ – 3/28/15
Enhancing Classroom Learning • Sofia • Edmodo• Kahoot• Plickers • Google Forms• YouTube • Kidblog • CodeAcademy or Code.org
The room is smarter
• Smackdown – What is working?
• Each person share something that is working for their students or teachers
Contact Information
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/DrSpikeCook• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/spike.c.cook
• Google + - https://plus.google.com/u/0/111474320222632498774/about
• Personal Blog - www.drspikecook.com – • School Blog -
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Survey Results
Qualitative Results • “Dr. Cook has been a
great role model for technology integration”
• “The Bacon Weekly keeps parents more informed”
• “Prior to working with Dr. Cook, I did not understand the value of social media as a resource for PD”
• “Through modeling with his weekly blogs, and endless enthusiasm to promote web 2.0 tools I am more confident in my ability to prepare student for a 21st century global marketplace”
• “This year I started my own blog to keep parents informed!”
• “He has encouraged us to try anything!”