These are the administrator academies I will be presenting in Illinois this Spring. Pass this on to your administrator.

01/22/2009 KIDS Roe in Loves Park

The Future of Leadership: Technology and the

School Leader

https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php?type=Administrators%27%20Academy

02/24/2009

The Future of Leadership - Technology and the School Leader

Session during the ICE conference St. Charles

http://www.iceberg.org/form.php?fid=efc8ad5aeeb37b5ebf1d5a0113044296

02/25/2009

Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts

Session during the ICE conference St. Charles

http://www.iceberg.org/form.php?fid=efc8ad5aeeb37b5ebf1d5a0113044296

03/11/2009 Tinley Park

The Future of Leadership: Technology and the

School Leader

Speaker: Meg Ormiston

Administrators’ Academy # 744

March 11, 2009 Hilton Garden Inn, Tinley Park

April 1, 2009 Doubletree, Bloomington

Illinois Principal Association

http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf

03/26/2009 Rock Falls

Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in

the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts

Administrators’ Academy # 520

Speaker: Meg Ormiston

May 6, 2009 Whiteside ROE #55, Rock Falls

Illinois Principal Association

http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf

04/02/09

The Future of Leadership: Technology and the

School Leader – an Online Course

Administrators’ Academy # 751

April 2, 2009 Online

Illinois Principal Association

http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf

04/23/200 South Cook

Communication and Organization in a Digital World

http://www.s-cook.org/scws2/wshopb.aspx

04/29/2009

The Future of Leadership: Technology and the

School Leader – an Online Course

Speaker: Meg Ormiston

Administrators’ Academy # 751 (online)

Illinois Principal Association

http://www.ilprincipals.org/docs/Flyers%2008-09/2008%20Overview.pdf

05/12/2009 west 40

Technology for Administrators: How to Lead Change in the Classroom with Blogs, WIKIS and Podcasts

http://www.west40.org/register/findall.php?category=Administrators%27+Academy

05/13/2009 DuPage

The Future of Leadership – Technology and the School Leader (AA#744)

https://www.dupage.k12.il.us/register/course.php?recid=3805

05/14/09 Rockford

Leading Change with Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis

https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php

05/15/09 Rockford

Leading Change with Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis

https://www.kidsroe.org/registration/WorkshopQuery.php

This site is new to me today, and I really think it would be very powerful in the classroom. http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/ I spent some time with the Image Detector, what a great tool to help students critically look at images looking at things like is this image stagged or altered in any way. Very powerful in the classroom.

Long ago I tried to create a tour in Google Earth, back to try it again with the help of my twitter network I am shocked how easy it was to complete this. What a great way to illustrate why I was a little tired!

Where in the World is Meg?

Working with Words using Web 2.0 Tools
· NEW Discoveries
http://skrbl.com/ Create and share free online whiteboards.
http://www.bubblejoy.com/intro.php Bubble Joy
http://www.tokbox.com/# Free video calling.
http://www.wordia.com/ Redefining the dictionary.
http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr image collection.
http://next.yahoo.net/photosoup/ Create puzzles with images.
http://www.gifup.com/ Create animated gifs about vocab words.
http://wordle.net/ Create tag clouds with Wordle.
http://www.fodey.com Create talking tomatoes, flowers and much more.
http://makesweet.com/ Similar to Image Chef.
http://www.pimpampum.net/toys/ Amazing Flickr Toys I forgot about!
http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/archive.php Check the Bubblr archives for my pumpkin carving “how to”.
http://www.pimpampum.net/memry/enter.php Create a memory game with Flickr images.
http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php?id=4329 Create “virtual books” with images from Flickr
http://metaatem.net/words/ Spell with Flickr!
http://vizlab.nytimes.com/ NY Times Visualization Lab
http://www.geogreeting.com/main.html Geo greeting
http://www.wiifit.com

Web 2.0 Tools
Skype http://www.skype.com/
· uStream http://www.ustream.tv/
· RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
· Podcasting http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcasts.html
· Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
· Twitter http://twitter.com/
· Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/
· Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/
· You Tube http://www.youtube.com/
· Facebook http://www.facebook.com/
· Ning Classroom 2.0 http://www.ning.com/
· del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/
· Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/
· Second Life http://secondlife.com/
· Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts
· Google Calendar http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/overview.html
· Google Docs http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html
· Google Sketchup http://sketchup.google.com/
· Street View http://books.google.com/help/maps/streetview/
· Google Earth http://earth.google.com/
Google Lit Trips http://www.googlelittrips.org
· Google Maps http://sketchup.google.com/
· Google Page Creator http://pages.google.com/-/about.html
· Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
· Image Chef http://www.imagechef.com/
Add Letters http://www.addletters.com/
Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/
GCast http://www.gcast.com
Jing http://www.jingproject.com/
Schooltown http://www.schooltown.net/

Great to be part of the Mt. Vernon Conference in Mt. Vernon Illinois! Here are the links to my various wikispace pages I created. Please feel free to share them with others back at school!

http://megormi.wikispaces.com/multimedia Multimedia in a Differentiated Classroom

http://megormi.wikispaces.com/reading Technology Resources to Support the Struggling Reader

http://megormi.wikispaces.com/web20tools Bringing the World to Your Classroom Using Web 2,0 Technology Tools

http://megormi.wikispaces.com/google Power Googling for Educators

Thanks as always to my twitter network, here are some great Interactive geography sites. http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/2008/09/five-interactive-geography-activities.html

The site that posted these activies may also be of interest to you! http://freetech4teachers.blogspot.com/

There is a lot here to explore!

Well I did it, I made it through nine weeks of tech camp, and now that I have had a nap the past two afternoons, I can actually say I had a BLAST! I just logged into School Town to work on our Tech Camp Alumni Group and I found this message from Hal (Week 9 camper). I am STILL laughing!

It’s Sunday morning. I woke up about 6:00 a.m. and went back to sleep, and I had a dream. In the first part of the dream my mom and dad were going to a Sox game, but for some reason my dad left the lot with his car. I told him he couldn’t get back in but he parked in the lot for a bar.

I went into the bar. I don’t know what happened to my mom and dad, but suddenly I was with our tech camp group and a bunch of townspeople. You were showing our movie projects to them! Every one of them was brilliant, many of them using 3-D effects a la Second Life. I was dreading mine coming up but then I looked at the clock and it was almost noon, and the bar cleared because everybody left to watch a Bears game. I was relieved.

The reason I figured out the whole dream, though, was because you also had our graded plans with you…ON PAPER! The grades were marked at the top in red ink. That’s when I woke up.

The rented motor home pu, Motor lled out of the driveway this morning at 11am and here I am blogging in a recliner as my husband cruises along. We just crossed over the Ohio state line and my husband is ready to stretch. Connected through the Internet using my Verizon broadband I just crossed one thing off my learning goals of the week, I created my first podcast using gcast. I really was shocked how easy it was! Traveling like this is really amazing!

For those of you joining us on the adventure we will try and stay connected and keep you posted of the many adentures we will have on this trip to Dreams Park outside of Cooperstown NY. My youngest is heading to a week long tournament and all of us are going along for the circuses! Join us for a laugh!

This group assignment was to showcase ten Web 2.0 tools featured during our week long class. This group has a very creaive spin on the presentation!

Tech Camp PEEP Show

I am still laughing hours after class! the assignment was to create a presentation including ten Web 2.0 Tools. This group did it in a very creative way. I did not realize I said “I have peeps” here it is on you tube, it MUST be true! Get ready to laugh!