One Woman's Wanderings With Web2.0

Web 2.0

The Key element to Web2.0 is that it allows the user to share and create. Web2.0 allows for collaboration and changes the web to a learning environment.
Educational Impact
*Read, Write, Web.
*Instant publishing and feedback
*Active real world based learning

Uses
* School Webpages
*Communication
*Share learning material
*Collaborative creative writing
*Professional Collaboration
*Generate information resources
* Creating pathfnders

T/L's cannot afford to ignore Web2.0 tools. Students must be prepared to function in future society. They need 21st century skills.

Issues
Copyright
Digital ethics
Costs
Vandalism
Access to technology
Time (always an issue for the busy T/L

Social Bookmarking is great way to organise digital resources. 
It keeps them accessible and is easy to share with others

Honest Matt McHugh

Of topic but a very cool and honest 20 questions with Matt McHugh of The Beautiful Girls fame by Grace Goodfellow.  He shares some very interesting and honest thoughts.

http://gracegoodfellows-words.tumblr.com/post/28900707531/i-answer-to-music-an-interview-with-mat-mchugh

Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Video - Stages of Concern

Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) Video - Stages of Concern

Leadership Styles

After reading Goleman's leadership styles I have realised that for the past 10 years I have been lucky enough to be part of a team with an affiliative leader - people were always more important.  Being a small school it worked incredibly well.  As a staff we worked very well together and would do anything to assist and support our leader as well as each other. We loved work and our students education greatly benefited from this climate.

Good Leaders

• Leaders must have a vision
• Leaders develop relationships
• Leaders strategize
• Leaders resolve conflicts
• Leaders make decisions and solve problems

Leading Effective Teams

Law, S., & Glover, D. (2000). Leading effective teams. In Educational leadership and 
learning : practice, policy and research (pp. 71-86). Buckingham, England : Open University Press

I found this article enlightening to read.  Working, as I do, in a small school I am greatly aware of how well we work as a Team.  Our team has been very successful over the last 10 years which has been exhibited by the development and performance of our students.

Our principal retired at the end of last year and we are now going through the anxiety stages mentioned in the  above article as we rebuild our team to include a new leader whom is making sweeping changes to our little school.

We are all working together with him to continue providing a successful environment for our students (small school family).