How Your
Nominee Has Shown Leadership Successfully Implementing Technology into
Instruction?
Co-Chair a committee on a 21st Century Learning to
bring Interactive Whiteboards into all classrooms of a 31K student school
district. http://sbo.nn.k12.va.us/21stCentury/2009/index.html
One of first schools in district to have an
interactive whiteboard in every classroom.
Teachers actively use them.
All of his instructional staff members were
encouraged to host a blog to promote student writing. To inspire his staff, he took them to see the
movie Julie and Julia for an opening school year activity. The staff used Twitter as a backchannel with
their cell phones and tweeted to his Twitter account during the movie. http://www.dailypress.com/twitter
Most teachers host a blog to encourage student
learning http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_passageblogs_0315mar15,0,5892658.story
He publishes a weekly Glog for staff http://passageactivitywiki.glogster.com/wk-of-march-1st/
that gives teachers instructional ideas and links to tech websites
He uses a Blog to conduct professional development
http://community.nn.k12.va.us/drrogers/2010/02/06/52/
He has piloted several mobile learning projects at
his school to include cell phones, iPods, MP3 Players, iPod Touches, Nintendo
DS and Playstation PSPs
He authored an article: http://www.21c3leadership.com/forms/2009_02_cellphones.pdf
and a book: http://www.teamvistech.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=482
on using cell phones as an instructional
tool
His teachers participate in monthly job embedded
professional development that focuses on technology integration-called shift
shops. Teachers learn to use Senteo
Response systems, Blogs, Pod casting, SmartBoard strategies and Mobile
Technology.
He assisted in planning three 21st Century Leading
and Learning conferences in his school district. The conferences were designed to help
district staff learn different ways to integrate technology into
education.
Invited to serve on a panel for the State of the
Mobile Net Conference in Washington DC http://www.netcaucus.org/conference/2010/sotmn/
Participated in the NASSP Mobile Learning Institute
Leadership Summit on Mobile Phones http://www.principals.org/Content/158/MLIagenda.pdf
He shared his experiences on Liz Kolb's Blog talk
radio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/elikeren/2009/10/22/middle-school-principal-kipp-rogers-has-teachers-using-cell-phones-and-tweeting
Web Resources
Displaying Nominee's Work:
http://passageactivitywiki.glogster.com/
http://www.21c3leadership.com/
http://cellphonesinclass.wikispaces.com/
http://passagefirstteam.wetpaint.com/accountSearch/all
http://passage.nn.k12.va.us/
http://teacherweb.com/VA/MaryLPassageMiddleSchool/KippRogers/index.html
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