Description
This resource helps school leaders focus on critical technology leadership issues and practical solutions for integrating technology into any school, administration, or professional development program.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: New Literacies
1. Integration Issues for Twenty-First-Century Teachers
2. Information Literacy
3. Visual Literacy: Taking Things at Face Value
4. Library/Media Centers: Strategy for Improved Student Performance
5. Don’t Limit the Value of the Library/Media Center
Part 2: Engaging Teachers and Students
6. Implementing Your Vision: Professional Development Through Promoting Effective Technology Integration
7. Provide Your Own Professional Development
8. Establishing a Web Presence: What to Do Before Building a Classroom Web Site
9. Set Out on a WebQuest
10. Blogs in K-12 Education: Where’s the Fit?
11. Video Streaming: Harnessing a Unique Capability of Technology
12. Distance Learning in the K-12 Learning Environment
13. Project-Based Learning: Technology Makes It Realistic!
Part 3: Providing a Reliable Infrastructure
14. Managing Total Cost of Ownership
15. Tech-Ready Facilities
16. Software and Networks: The New Challenges
17. The Evolving Role of the Technology Coordinator
18. What to Do When Things Aren’t Working
Part 4: Legal and Social Concerns
19. Teachers, Students, and Technology Use: Some Cautions
20. Copyright and Technology Use in the Classroom
21. Monitoring Student Internet Use: It’s More Than Filtering
22. Spreading the Word Quickly: Technology-Based Home/School Communication
23. Assistive Technologies: Meeting the Needs of Students With Physical Disabilities
24. Sitting Pretty? The Ergonomics of Computer Workstations
Subject Index
