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April 13, 2010

Cyber Law, the Fourth Amendment, and Recommendations for School Administrators: Facing the Challenge of the Schoolosphere

Written over 200 years ago, when a cell phone or computer were not part of one's imagination, the Founding Fathers crafted the Fourth Amendment for the then new United States of America. In an attempt to prevent the anytime, anywhere searches and seizures that had once been prevalent in the British...  Read Full Post >

April 07, 2010

Calling All Coders...Calling All Teachers

It was in the 1990s that I was first exposed to an electronic book. It was during the Texas Educational Technology Pilots which were arranged by Robert Leos and Anita Givens in Texas. These individuals remain my shining hope for the potential for leadership with technology in schools. Together they ...  Read Full Post >

March 31, 2010

Digital Fabrication Is Coming to a School Near You !!!

"A second fundamental factor in the mental development of the child is the role of exercise and of acquired experience in the actions performed upon objects. There are two types of experience, physical experience, which consists of acting upon objects to abstract their physical properties and logico...  Read Full Post >

March 08, 2010

Cyberspeech Common Law Foundations

As mentioned in a previous post there has been a recent trend of students facing school disciplinary procedures for off-campus activities and behaviors in cyberspace. It is the goal of this post to discuss 1st Amendment common law as it relates to student cyberspace activities. Because there have b...  Read Full Post >

February 28, 2010

1st and 4th Amendment Rights and the Schoolosphere

"The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state's interest in crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of...  Read Full Post >

March 28, 2009

NETS*A Refresh: A New Path For Administration

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has been working hard to get feedback from teachers and administrators on the new draft National Educational Standards for Administrators (NETS*A). The Draft Nets are available at Draft NETS*A The full kit of evaluation materials is av...  Read Full Post >

February 24, 2009

Using the Flip Camera for Teacher Evaluations

The Flip camera seems to be just about everywhere these days. The Flip makes it very easy to record and share video with other users, a fact which has not been overlooked by our hardworking teachers in the field. But, I feel that we should not overlook the potential of the flip in helping leaders he...  Read Full Post >

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