1. “Do you have to be a geek to be an
effective principal in today’s schools?”
Presentation @
the Council of School Leaders
Winter conference
Feb 14, 2014
Rob Fisher,
Principal
École Riverside School
Thompson, Mb.
2. Everything I’m doing today has been saved online and publicly
accessable so you don’t have to write everything down as we go. I’ll
show you where that is in 3 minutes
3. Start
I’d like to introduce myself a bit differently this morning so to start off
98. Attributions
photo of robcfisher - by Rachel Fisher
Google Maps and Google streetview - courtesy of Google
photo of Queen’s University Logo - by flickr user Sam-R
photo of Grant Hall - by flickr user Sam-R
photo of Queen’s Football - by flickr user Tyler Ball
photo of Footprint Lake - by flickr user windonfire
photo of Bruins fans - by flickr user geoftheref
photo of 30 Hickson Ave - by Dave Fisher
photo of 30 Hickson Ave Rear - by Dave Fisher
photo of blueberri the cat - by Catharine Fisher
photo of fluffi the cat - by Catharine Fisher
photo of king miner statue - by Catharine Fisher
photo of Ashton the dog - by Catharine Fisher
photo of RDPC - by Catharine Fisher
this is where I found the images
DickHardt.org Logo - courtesy of Dick
Hardt
All other images - by Rob Fisher
photo of Nisichawayasihk Welcome sign - by Ross Francois
photo of Duncan Wood Hall - by Ross Francois
photo of Otetiskiwin School - by Ross Francois
photo of Toronto Maple leaf
Logo - by Ross Francois
107. Why did I just
do that with
you?
the reason I showed you this presentation (besides to introduce myself) is that this was the presentation I shared
with everyone at our staff meeting 4 years ago when I began being principal at École riverside
some of our discussion was about how I thought we should be teaching our students to be good presenters and to show their understanding
in a variety of ways. and to avoid death by powerpoint. I donʼt have time during this session to show you this but the clip is on the wiki for this
presentation.
The idea that presentations should be images and not words etc.and other ideas from “Made to Stick” by Chip and Dan Heath
109. go to live link and show location of todayʼs presentation
110.
111. Today’s
participants
Iʼd like to quickly find out something about whoʼs here today
Iʼm going to ask you your name, school, what you do there and your twitter handle if you have one
Besides finding out who is in the room this will create a contact list for you for future relationship building after today
112. the app were going to look at next is polleverywhere.com
113. your name,
school, and location,
what you do there,
your twitter handle
using your cellphones send a message to 37607 and in the text of the message put 70456 and the answer to the ?ʼs
your name, school, location, what you do there, and your twitter handle
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117. This is Brenna Phillips
Tell the story of how I know Brenna #savmp
and when I asked Brenna “Do you think you have to be a geek to be an effective administrator?”
She saw the ? as the -ve traits and said “of course not you have to be able to relate to people”
118. there are a lot of negative connotations when we think of the word ‘geek’
119. but today I want to reframe what we think of when we think “geek”
121. when I asked the question for today’s session
“Do you have to be a geek to be an effective principal in today’s schools?”
I meant the positive traits of geekiness
122. 78259
What positive traits do
you think of when I say
the word “geek”?
using your cellphones send a message to 37607 and in the text of the message put 78259 and the answer to the positive things that come to
mind when I say the word “geek”
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124. 9:15 I’m thinking of as a term of endearment
ie. creative
obsure knowledge base
problem solver
stickwithitness
See what the group comes up with
125. story of my search for ‘geekiness’ in preparation for this presentation
explain the sevec trip.
I asked the dj’s if I could use what I’m about to show you for this presentation
and when I described that I was going to talk about +ve traits of geekiness they agreed right away
126. why do I think this demonstrates positive traits of geekiness?
Involves the use of technology, it’s creative
involves a obsure knowledge base or something I know very little or nothing about
problem solver, stickwithitness
127. I’m suggesting we need to search for those people who know things that we don’t
then build relationships and learn together
and this is what I’m suggesting we do as principals, find others that know things you don’t
129. “Do you have to be a geek to be an effective principal
in today’s schools?”
but back to our original question for today. What I’m currently thinking in response is....
131. or you need to have or be able to find some geeky friends
132.
133. What is the
point of
today’s
session?
It is my intention that you leave at the end of todays session
knowing a few of my geeky friends and the projects we have done together.
That I provide you with Potential future contacts to expand your PLN
and that I leave you wanting to find out more about a couple of the things we look at today
then try them with your students, or at your schools moving forward.
134. “The highest goal in life is to inquire and create”
– Noam Chomsky
I found this quote from a recent youtube video “The purpose of Education”
135. Itʼs our teachers and me doing the work, this is an attempt to shine a light on sone of the good work people are doing
137. Some of my geeky friends are teachers in our school
this is Sophie Ouelette who taught grade 8 in our school. And Sarah Fudge who taught grade 5. A couple of years ago we did this
project.
145. this is Kristin Donovan who teaches grade 5 @ École Riverside School
146. Social Justice
Making a difference in
our world
Infusing technology
Peer to peer learning
We applied for the Ken Spencer award for the work Mme. Kristin Donovan and her grade 7 students did last year
Our projects have these foci.
147. I’d like to highlight 1 of the projects now.
Red hand day, sdml district Children at war project. Starting last year, we begin our remembrance day ceremonies with this video
that was created by our grade 7 students last year as a result of this project.
Thanks to veteran Merv McKay pictured in this photo for many of the images used.
PLAY VIDEO
168. Wolves without Borders
Explain the wolves without borders project
explain involvement of wolf.org and the tandberg with Tara
using google earth and datapoints to plot wolf movements
explain the connection with Babbit and Mexico
174. I’ve just selected a few examples for today’s presentation. If you want to see other things
we our doing in our school check out the class wiki’s at riversiderams.wikispaces.com
176. As a guiding
principal
constant conversations about infusion, teaching, and learning with
this guiding principle that we are trying to get our student’s to create more than they consume
many of these projects demonstrate our students as content creators
and I would like to share a couple of examples now
that are examples of partnerships between students and teachers accelerated by technology
178. Grade 1-3
flashmob
explain background how this happened
tell the involvement story of
artist in the school
Brenda Gorlick
the practices
the need for collaboration (and for the cosl preso me self proclaimed title of lead collaborator)
MSA
RCMP
city center mall
shaw
179. Grade 1-3
flashmob
caveat doing a flash mob with gr 1-3 students with involved parents
tell the story of Rachel upset “their ruining the surprize dad!”
180. play from this live link. Use quicktime backup if issues with youtube
182. Grade 1-3
flashmob
You may have noticed the grade 8ʼs taking video with their ipods.
explain why we couldnʼt use the footage --“vertical video syndrome
184. Grade 4-7
flashmob
tell the story of this, gr 4-8
did the same as the gr 1-3
1 week of daily practice with artist in the school brenda gorlick
involved MSA @ RDPC who danced on the benches to help guide the students
showed up in the forum and started right when the bell rang for the afternoon class change
and this is what happened
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185.
186. show the teachers clip after showing the whole thing
risk taking attitude and mindset
and doing things your not sure how to do
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1939870 link for teachers only dancing gangham style
187. School District of
Mystery Lake
Hedley - lip dub
explain the logisitics of this
select song
find lyrics lyrics.com
use google doc
select lines
create raw video at each of the schools where the student teachers were working
email clips to me
Stefan then edited in imovie
upload to a youtube channel
188. demo of how to create a shared spreadsheet in google docs
explain the choices
shared doc, preso, ss, etc.
189. so this is what we created run from this live link
191. What am i doing as
principal to support
our journey?
I find,initiate, provide technical support then the teachers in our school make it happen
192. “Of course” - Scott McLeod
in many ways its a mindset
(poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod)
193. X
“Of course” - Scott McLeod
I don’t think that’s what we are about at our school
It’s in part that I trust teachers to do the right thing
and they are willing to take risks and try things
and do the unusual without fear of failure
194. "When are we going to start asking
ourselves why we make it so hard to
be a great teacher?"
Chris Lehmann
http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
195. "How do we create schools that
make it easier for all students
and teachers to shine?"
Chris Lehmann
http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann
196. create the climate of doing the unusual. permission to take risks
technical help when needed or I find those who can help
example of darren and kristin yesterday with the smartboard
and systemic changes like Kristin’s schedule
tech buddies as an example of ongoing internal support
222. Airserver
also can use instead of a document camera using your cellphone as the cam. Cost $4 compared to $1500 for a wireless document camera
use airserver and my phone to show the projects
pass the models around the room
225. this is an example of online collaboration but I’ll let my students tell
you the story
226.
227.
228.
229. Where to get
ideas from? ie. To
find out what
other schools
are doing.
Where do I get project ideas to share with teachers, to try in our school etc.
230. Feedly.com and
RSS feeds
clude the .opml file on wiki for particpants to import
do a quick demo of my rss feeds on feedly and how to find educatiional bloggers to read
231. Twitter
Lists
Hashtags
Twitterchats ie. #mbedchat
twitter, hashtags and twitterchats
lists -demonstrate my hootsuite stream
hashtags - at conferences how people are using to share between rooms or give 1 current example ie. #mathchat
twitterchats - #mbedchat explain what Zoe is doing with this (ie. The structure of it)
demo depending on available time
twitter, hashtags and twitterchats
lists -demonstrate my hootsuite stream
hashtags - at conferences how people are using to share beteen rooms or give 1 current example ie. #mathchat
twitterchats - #mbedchat
As an example do a couple
#mathchat
Twitterchats
Specifically what zoe is doing with #mbedchat√
232. Twitterchats
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Wednesdays from 9-10pm CST
Manitoba Teachers #mbchat
Archive:http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/arc.html?key=tmglGXCiSPXlCkTY0NY7hzA
(mbchat.wordpress.com to get to the archive
use the tags searchable option)
script is
9:10 Q1
920 Q2
930 Q3
940 Q4
950 Q5
Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. CST
Connected principals chat #cpchat
archive:http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/9173
235. why __________blank matters. unplug11 (Canadian educators) click on
this hotlink show a quick skim the essays. Manitobans invited were
Darren Kuropatwa, Andy McKeil, Clarence Fisher, Chris Harbeck, John
Evans, and me Rob Fisher.
236. in addition to the ebook, explain that we also all created a video
throughout the week about what really matters in education. Here is
the link to my video
237. explain at unplug12 (international) we all wrote “letters from the edge”.
click on the hotlink then on any person here to see their letter. I was a
facilitator at this session.
238. unplugd.ca as a source of people to follow on twitter to expand your PLN
239.
240. for the last part of today’s session I would like everyone here to experience a hands-on opportunity to be part of a the “maker
culture”
makey makey intro
show the intro to what they are makeymakey.com
241. Makey Makey Activity
find an online site that
lets you control
something using the keys
on a keyboard
hookup the makey
makey board to control
the screen with the
materials given
Iʼve been using these in a grade 7 makers club and soon will be using in a few of our classrooms
your task today is to in groups at your tables
create something that controls an online website using the materials given
Cubefield.org.uk
arcade games online
musical instruments online
243. The things we looked at
today.........
If you don’t know robcfisher (as a
model of good presentation
techniques)
slideshare
robcfisher.wikispaces.com
Polleverywhere text
Pollev.presenter
who’s here today
Brenna Phillips
Geekiness
#savmp
urbandictionary.com
Positive traits of geekiness
Geeky friends
Make a difference mondays
Sophie Oulette
Sarah Fudge
Kristin Donovan
Ken Spencer award
Red Hand Day
Melyssa Girard
Kidblog
Sevec
Allison Kissick
Fortmacmoney.com
Erin Donovan
Lois Fisher
Teddybear travels
Chelsea McKay
Jenny Ashby
24 hour skype
Micheline Gagne
Wolves without borders
Babbit, Mn
Mexico
class wikis
Create more than you consume
Gr 1-3 flashmob
Gr 4-8 flashmob
Tubechop.com
Vertical video syndrome
Airserver
School District of Mystery Lake
lipdub
Google drive and google docs
Showme.com and student led
conferences
Feedly.com and RSS feeds
Minecraft
Printcraft
3D printers
Soundcloud
Social Cam
Water bottle filling station
Wordle.net
Twitter/hootsuite
Hashtags
#mbedchat
#cpchat
Maker culture
Manace
QR codes
collaboration
Google hangouts
makey makey boards
Unplugd11
Unplugd12
Ahbi
Pawandeep
Simone
Dylan
Avoiding death by powerpoint
Remind101.com
Polleverywhere polling
Animoto
244. Attributions
“Question mark” By flickr user Marco Bellucci
“Summer image of École Riverside school” By google streetview
“Three note strategies: iPad, Moleskine and iPhone” By flickr user andjohan
“A failed reminder” By flickr user massdistraction
“Winter image of École Riverside school” By robcfisher
“Creative commons welcome pack” By flickr user Carlfish
“Zoghal's magical eye” By flickr user looking4poetry
“Show me creation” courtesy of Mme. Pankratz gr 1
“Title page image of robcfisher” courtesy of Mme. Squires as part of our
schoolwide 50th anniversary image creation project
“create more than you consume” By flickr user tyler.wainright
“technology use” By flickr user mrsdkrebs
“Good Idea” By flickr user Celestine Chua
“Teddybear travels” pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher
“Rememberance day 2012 video” created by Hannah Murdy, Matt Tretiak and Matt
Rempel
“MTS and ManAce logo’s” used with permission from the parent associations
“ManAce seed grant video” created by robcfisher and Keyanna Boycho Oulette
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan, Sophie Ouelett, and Ashley Squires
“Geek ≈ Chic” By flickr user Timmy Toucan
“my geek venn diagram” By flickr user Technovore
“spotlight002” By flickr user k6martini
“do something unusual tomorrow” By flickr user
ModernDope (old account)
“Explosion of positive energy” By flickr user Lucas
all other images and video’s by robcfisher
and thanks to the staff of École Riverside school for providing many
wonderful examples of student learning and engagement to share.....
end with ?ʼs slide
“your turn ;p” By flickr user Maria Ly
246. this is our most active channel
Ecoleriversideschool http://www.youtube.com/user/EcoleRiversideSchool
kristin, http://www.youtube.com/user/kmdrdpc
becky, http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUqKJD1BmWVxhK_iDihrSAQ
melissa’s http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93aLNyPC2lfKE6rhEHFuWQ