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Get them What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media (or, if you prefer, the Kindle edition). This collection of short, to-the-point chapters about a variety of educational technologies is an excellent read for those school leaders who understand that technology is an increasingly important component of teaching and learning, but who aren't very comfortable themselves with technology. This wouldn't be a good gift for folks who are immersed in this environment, but for school leaders that want to learn but don't know where to start, this is a great choice.
Compiled and edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann, this book consists of the following:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Chris Lehmann and Scott McLeod
Foreword: David Warlick
Learning Tools
Blogs: Kristin Hokanson and Christian Long
Wikis: Stephanie Sandifer and Vicki Davis
Podcasts and webinars: Steve Dembo and Wes Fryer
RSS and RSS readers: Will Richardson and Karl Fisch
Digital video: Mathew Needleman
Virtual schooling: Michael Barbour and Rick Ferdig
One-to-one computing: Chris Lehmann and Pamela Livingston
Open source software: Tom Hoffman
Educational gaming: John Rice
Interlude: Social media is changing the way we live and learn: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Social bookmarking: Dean Shareski and Mary Beth Hertz
Online mind mapping: Carl Anderson and Richard Byrne
Course management systems: Scott Floyd and Miguel Guhlin
Interlude: See Sally research: Evolving notions of information literacy: Joyce Valenza and Doug Johnson
Online office tool suites: Diana Laufenberg and Mark Wagner
Twitter: Alec Couros and Kevin Jarrett
Online images and visual literacy: Kim Cofino and David Jakes
Mobile phones: Liz Kolb and Sharon Tonner
Social networking: Ewan McIntosh and Jeff Utecht
Afterword: Christopher Sessums(Full Disclosure: I do not receive any compensation from the sale of this book. The entire compensation for my contribution was two free copies of the book. Well, and the opportunity to co-author a chapter with Will Richardson: priceless.)
