Tag: 2.0 Tools

• Your Toolbox

  I had a great, reaffirming conversation with another administrator in my school district @CumberlandCoSch.  At a  scheduling workshop for secondary schools, I met up with Dan Krumanocker and Troy Lindsey, principal and assistant principal of Douglas Byrd High School. A couple of months ago, I helped Dan [@DanielJK68] with a Twitter tutorial, basically some quick…

  Derek L. McCoy

  04/14/2013

  pln, school leadership

  2.0 Tools, 21st Century Learning, Collaborate, leadership, learning, School Leadership, Social media

• Boomerang – A Gmail Enhancement

  My district, Cumberland County Schools [@CumberlandCoSch] is a Google district. Like a lot of districts, many of our functions have been sent to the ‘cloud’. In addition to benefiting from the integration of many Google apps, our email is now hosted on Google’s servers. This is the first district I’ve not used Outlook for my…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/31/2013

  apps, school leadership

  2.0 Tools, communication, Google

• Sharing GoogleForms Observations and Teacher Feedback

     Several weeks ago, the principals in our cluster got together and did an instructional walk thru in my building. This is the second one we’ve done in our district, the first at our cluster high school. This great talk inspired me to offer my school as the next walk thru site. I’ve always invited…

  Derek L. McCoy

  03/13/2013

  collaborate, school administration, school leadership, teachers

  2.0 Tools, Collaborate, curriculum, education, GoogleDrive, Instruction, Observation, School administration, School Leadership

• iPads and Google Forms for Classroom Observations – Team Solution

  

   The Spring Lake Middle Instructional Leadership Team had a great collaborative growth experience with the Cumberland County Schools Curriculum and Instruction Team.     The CCS C&I Teams makes regular visits to schools to observe classrooms and give feedback to the principal and/or other personnel. For our visit today, our Executive Director of Secondary Curriculum,…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/08/2013

  change, collaborate, data, pln, school administration, school leadership, student centered, teachers

  2.0 Tools, Collaborate, data, decision making, digital learning, education, Google, GoogleDrive, leadership, Observation, professional development, School administration, School Leadership, Social media

• Skyping In – #GRESA Conference

     Last week, I had the great opportunity to Skype into the conference with a good friend of mine from Georgia. Rod Smith, @IAmRodSmith, is the Director of Technology and Communications for Griffin-Spalding Schools. I contacted him earlier to get his help with an iPad technical issue [he is an iPad guru]. We arranged for…

  Derek L. McCoy

  02/03/2013

  collaborate, commit, pln, school administration, school leadership, Skype, teachers

  2.0 Tools, Change, chats, Collaborate, communication, community, education, Hootsuite, leadership, School administration, School Leadership, Social media, stakeholders, Tweetdeck, Twitter