Five Selection Criteria for Visitor Management Systems
Moving from a paper-and-pencil, staff-member-managed visitor check-in system to a comprehensive technology-driven visitor management system can be expensive and challenging, but it is a critical step in protecting students and staff.
How to Manage Your District's Learning Opportunities
“School districts need to be able to provide and manage consistent professional learning opportunities that are scalable, platform-independent (web-based), and that allow for interface with their district's data warehouse and other systems. But how….?”
Building Your Personal Learning Network
As we externalize our thinking, it becomes less of “I am an expert expounding on what I know" and more of "I am a learner, just like you, sharing what I'm learning so we can learn together." Our understanding of learning is changing. We need to think of learning as an experience that happens when we connect with others.
Broadcast Learning: The Power of Network Learning
What if you could broadcast learning at will via the Internet to a world of learners? What if you could interact with people, not only face-to-face in your workshop, but also halfway around the world? What if your on-site workshop participants could participate in a conversation with those virtual participants? Pretty exciting, no?
Web Site Nirvana?
“Depending on your level of expertise, you can jump into online publishing with your own district-supported content management system. Taking on the work of a content management system requires three things…”
Managing Content in a Read/Write World
“It's not how well a technology director controls the content, but how easily he or she can distribute the authority to end users to maintain their own web-based work.”
 About
the Author
As director of instructional technology for a large urban district in Texas, past president of the state-wide Technology Education Coordinators group in one of the largest U.S. technology educator organizations (TCEA), Miguel Guhlin continues to model the use of emerging technologies in schools. You can read his published writing or engage him in conversation via his blog at Around the Corner.
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