This presentation was made by Dr. Richard Voltz, IASA Associate Director for the 2011 IPA Assistant Principals Conference. The subject is how to use technology efficiently as a school administrator.

2. You can view slide show at http://www.slideshare.net/rvoltz/IPA http://www.slideshare.net/rvoltz/IPA

3. Guess what?

4. Education is changing...

7. What are the barriers?

8. Textbooks Online

10. Is this how your students learn?

13. Pearson Education Inc. launched what it claims is the nation’s first-ever complete social studies curriculum for the iPad, in partnership with Virginia officials.

14. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. has also redesigned a classic textbook to take advantage of the iPad. Since early September, around 400 students in California have been learning algebra via a new iPad-only program.

15. “ From what I’ve seen, the iPad is going to be a transformational platform for textbooks,’’ said Anthony Jackson, superintendent of the Henry County Public Schools.

16. Pearson Education has already converted 3,000 of its textbooks to a proprietary e-book format, and has more than a hundred iPhone apps in the Apple Store, which it promotes as free, or inexpensive, supplements to its textbooks.

17. Has education really changed in last 100 years?

22. Dr. Michael Wesch From Knowledgeable to Knowledge Able From Knowledgeable to Knowledge Able

24. Education in Illinois needs to change due to state financial condition.

25. $15B deficit

26. 2% Income Tax Increase does NOT solve all the problems

27. Public Reaction

30. Change is coming!

31. Every Special Education teacher and student in Illinois should have an iPad and a budget for apps.

32. Proloque2go

34. FirstWords

35. IWriteWords

36. Stories2Learn

41. RV’s Top Adm Apps

42. Use Twitter to Communicate to Parents, Students, Community

59. 5 Reasons to Use Twitter

60. Make Connections

63. Information Overload

68. Use Digital Technology For Teacher Professional Development

81. Give each junior his/her own URL www.richvoltz.com www.richvoltz.com

83. Prezi

92. Use Podcasting

93. Students

94. Morning announcements with iPod touch

98. audioboo.fm

100. The Principal

101. Start an audio Podcast and update regularly For students For parents

105. Screencasting

106. jingproject.com

107. Use your computer screen and microphone to teach others

110. Administrators Texting for Success

111. Use polleverywhere.com with texting to survey

116. Start your own daily technology newspaper for staff

118. http://paper.li /

119. paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into an easy to read newspaper-style format.

120. You need to be active in Twitter and Facebook

122. Getting started with the iPad

123. Marriage to one computer, one iTunes account

128. Mail

130. Calendar

131. Maps

132. RV’s Favorite Apps

133. USA Today

134. Amazon Kindle

136. Newsy

138. ReaddleDocs

140. Google

142. TED Mobile

144. Dropbox

146. Dragon Dictation

148. Apps for Students

149. Soundpaper

151. Star Walk

153. Kahn Academy

155. Speak It

157. momwithapps.com

159. 3D Brain

161. WebReader

163. Pocket Heart

165. Disney Toy Story Toy Story

167. Frog Dissection

169. iBooks

174. Google Docs

176. Group Collaboration

177. Teacher grading and attendance

178. Share

180. Google Forms