Cosl winter conference feb 14 2014

“Do you have to be a geek to be an
effective principal in today’s schools?”

Presentation @
the Council of School Leaders
Winter conference
Feb 14, 2014

Rob Fisher,
Principal
École Riverside School
Thompson, Mb.

Everything I’m doing today has been saved online and publicly
accessable so you don’t have to write everything down as we go. I’ll
show you where that is in 3 minutes

Start

I’d like to introduce myself a bit differently this morning so to start off

who am I

I’d like to tell you who am I

if you don’t know robcﬁsher

If you don’t know robcﬁsher

you already know

you already know

I’m currently the principal of École Riverside School

grandma

When I grew up, My grandma lived in our backyard

here. When she passed away i moved in and went to school

Queen’s University

thats Queens university

B. Arts

I received one of these

began teaching

I began my teaching career

of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation

ﬁrst

My ﬁrst teaching assignment was

Cree

where I learned some cree words like astum

come here!

astum --that means come here and ati apay

sit down!

ati apay --that means sit down and chee sqwa

wait!

chee sqwa -- that means wait
But I learned It was better to learn words like

better
neeganan

chee sqwa that means wait
But I learned It was better to know words like kinanaskomitten awow
kapitooteak neeganan

that means welcome to our home

At Otetiskiwin School I was also

great

where I met a lot of great

teacher

who is also a teacher,

curriculum coordinator

was curriculum coordinator

I’ve was seconded to Manitoba Education where I worked with the
technology infusion support group

this one because it’s interesting

and this one because it scares the hell out of me

in my spare time, this is what I do for fun ,
for those who don’t recognize it-- thats ref hockey

patient

So you know I’m patient

impartial

and you know I’m impartial

or maybe I just like to get yelled at.

optimistic

so you know I’m optimistic

not as optimistic

but not as optimistic

idea

I got/stole the idea for this presentation

here from if you don’t know @dick

Attributions
photo of robcfisher - by Rachel Fisher
Google Maps and Google streetview - courtesy of Google
photo of Queen’s University Logo - by flickr user Sam-R
photo of Grant Hall - by flickr user Sam-R
photo of Queen’s Football - by flickr user Tyler Ball
photo of Footprint Lake - by flickr user windonfire
photo of Bruins fans - by flickr user geoftheref

photo of 30 Hickson Ave - by Dave Fisher
photo of 30 Hickson Ave Rear - by Dave Fisher

photo of blueberri the cat - by Catharine Fisher
photo of fluffi the cat - by Catharine Fisher
photo of king miner statue - by Catharine Fisher
photo of Ashton the dog - by Catharine Fisher
photo of RDPC - by Catharine Fisher

this is where I found the images

DickHardt.org Logo - courtesy of Dick
Hardt

All other images - by Rob Fisher

photo of Nisichawayasihk Welcome sign - by Ross Francois
photo of Duncan Wood Hall - by Ross Francois
photo of Otetiskiwin School - by Ross Francois
photo of Toronto Maple leaf
Logo - by Ross Francois

ﬁnd me

you can ﬁnd me online

http://principal2pointoh.blogspot.com/

I’m starting to blog here

robcﬁsher.wikispaces.com

and you can ﬁnd my stuff here including todays presentation

email:

email me here

rﬁsher@mysterynet.mb.ca

now you know something about robcﬁsher

with thanks to Dick Hardt’s presentation style inﬂuence

Why did I just
do that with
you?

the reason I showed you this presentation (besides to introduce myself) is that this was the presentation I shared
with everyone at our staff meeting 4 years ago when I began being principal at École riverside
some of our discussion was about how I thought we should be teaching our students to be good presenters and to show their understanding
in a variety of ways. and to avoid death by powerpoint. I donʼt have time during this session to show you this but the clip is on the wiki for this
presentation.
The idea that presentations should be images and not words etc.and other ideas from “Made to Stick” by Chip and Dan Heath

Note taking


notetaking requirements
everything I do with you today and the links associated with them are on here robcﬁsher.wikispaces.com (look at the bottom of the page for the
date and name of this session)

go to live link and show location of todayʼs presentation

Today’s
participants

Iʼd like to quickly ﬁnd out something about whoʼs here today
Iʼm going to ask you your name, school, what you do there and your twitter handle if you have one
Besides ﬁnding out who is in the room this will create a contact list for you for future relationship building after today

the app were going to look at next is polleverywhere.com

your name,
school, and location,
what you do there,
your twitter handle

using your cellphones send a message to 37607 and in the text of the message put 70456 and the answer to the ?ʼs
your name, school, location, what you do there, and your twitter handle

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This is Brenna Phillips
Tell the story of how I know Brenna #savmp
and when I asked Brenna “Do you think you have to be a geek to be an effective administrator?”
She saw the ? as the -ve traits and said “of course not you have to be able to relate to people”

there are a lot of negative connotations when we think of the word ‘geek’

but today I want to reframe what we think of when we think “geek”

here’s the deﬁnition from urbandictionary.com

when I asked the question for today’s session
“Do you have to be a geek to be an effective principal in today’s schools?”
I meant the positive traits of geekiness

78259

What positive traits do
you think of when I say
the word “geek”?

using your cellphones send a message to 37607 and in the text of the message put 78259 and the answer to the positive things that come to
mind when I say the word “geek”

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<title>Positive things I think of when I hear the word "geek" COSL PD Feb 14,2014</title>
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9:15 I’m thinking of as a term of endearment
ie. creative
obsure knowledge base
problem solver
stickwithitness
See what the group comes up with

story of my search for ‘geekiness’ in preparation for this presentation
explain the sevec trip.
I asked the dj’s if I could use what I’m about to show you for this presentation
and when I described that I was going to talk about +ve traits of geekiness they agreed right away

why do I think this demonstrates positive traits of geekiness?
Involves the use of technology, it’s creative
involves a obsure knowledge base or something I know very little or nothing about
problem solver, stickwithitness

I’m suggesting we need to search for those people who know things that we don’t
then build relationships and learn together
and this is what I’m suggesting we do as principals, ﬁnd others that know things you don’t

“Do you have to be a geek to be an effective principal
in today’s schools?”

but back to our original question for today. What I’m currently thinking in response is....

or you need to have or be able to ﬁnd some geeky friends

What is the
point of
today’s
session?

It is my intention that you leave at the end of todays session
knowing a few of my geeky friends and the projects we have done together.
That I provide you with Potential future contacts to expand your PLN
and that I leave you wanting to find out more about a couple of the things we look at today
then try them with your students, or at your schools moving forward.

“The highest goal in life is to inquire and create”
– Noam Chomsky

I found this quote from a recent youtube video “The purpose of Education”

Itʼs our teachers and me doing the work, this is an attempt to shine a light on sone of the good work people are doing

Some of my geeky friends are teachers in our school
this is Sophie Ouelette who taught grade 8 in our school. And Sarah Fudge who taught grade 5. A couple of years ago we did this
project.

Make a difference mondays. Explain the project

students talking on CBC radio promoting our project idea

asking for food donations every monday in march 7:30-8:30 am then delivering to the homeless shelter

voice recorder on ipod with make a difference mondays homeless shelter fundraiser
asking people “what do you think about what we’re doing here?”

this is Kristin Donovan who teaches grade 5 @ École Riverside School

Social Justice
Making a difference in
our world
Infusing technology
Peer to peer learning

We applied for the Ken Spencer award for the work Mme. Kristin Donovan and her grade 7 students did last year
Our projects have these foci.

I’d like to highlight 1 of the projects now.
Red hand day, sdml district Children at war project. Starting last year, we begin our remembrance day ceremonies with this video
that was created by our grade 7 students last year as a result of this project.
Thanks to veteran Merv McKay pictured in this photo for many of the images used.
PLAY VIDEO

this is Melyssa Girard who teaches grade 8 in our school

this is the blog she created for our use with the parents when we were away for a week in Quebec City recently.

this is Allison Kissick who teaches gr 7 in our school

She’s currently exploring an online game fortmacmoney.com with her grade 7 students

this is Erin Donovan who teaches gr 2 in our school and Lois Fisher who is a teacher and literacy with ICT support teacher in Flin
Flon, Mb

so when I got back from Byte I spoke with Erin about he idea and...
this is our bear sunny and their bear ﬂin ﬂin

and this is Lois Fisher from Flin Flon. explain the concept discussion @ byte with Lois
lets try, we know each other if it bombs we’ll be ok

note the comment section
describe how Lois and Erin used this project in their classrooms

here is another one of my geeky friends Jen ashby from Bendigo Austrailia
story of where I met Jen (unplugd11 and more on that later)

and this is Chelsea McKay who taught grade 5 when this project happened. She now is our grade 2/3 teacher @ École Riverside

Explain the 24 hour skype project

show clip what we do for fun at lunch
and 1 clip of whats in my lunchkit if time

this is Micheline Gagne who teaches grade 6 in our school

Wolves without Borders

Explain the wolves without borders project
explain involvement of wolf.org and the tandberg with Tara
using google earth and datapoints to plot wolf movements
explain the connection with Babbit and Mexico

skyping with Babbit, Minnesota

collaboratively planning a community survey with their student groups in Babbit

and us right after the international wolf and carnivore conference click on this live link to run the clip

I’ve just selected a few examples for today’s presentation. If you want to see other things
we our doing in our school check out the class wiki’s at riversiderams.wikispaces.com

As a guiding
principal

constant conversations about infusion, teaching, and learning with
this guiding principle that we are trying to get our student’s to create more than they consume
many of these projects demonstrate our students as content creators
and I would like to share a couple of examples now
that are examples of partnerships between students and teachers accelerated by technology

Content Creators

as well as creators

Grade 1-3
ﬂashmob

explain background how this happened
tell the involvement story of
artist in the school
Brenda Gorlick
the practices
the need for collaboration (and for the cosl preso me self proclaimed title of lead collaborator)
MSA
RCMP
city center mall
shaw

Grade 1-3
ﬂashmob

caveat doing a ﬂash mob with gr 1-3 students with involved parents
tell the story of Rachel upset “their ruining the surprize dad!”

play from this live link. Use quicktime backup if issues with youtube

Grade 1-3
ﬂashmob

You may have noticed the grade 8ʼs taking video with their ipods.
explain why we couldnʼt use the footage --“vertical video syndrome

use live link
vertical video syndrome http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

Grade 4-7
ﬂashmob

tell the story of this, gr 4-8
did the same as the gr 1-3
1 week of daily practice with artist in the school brenda gorlick
involved MSA @ RDPC who danced on the benches to help guide the students
showed up in the forum and started right when the bell rang for the afternoon class change
and this is what happened
"

show the teachers clip after showing the whole thing
risk taking attitude and mindset
and doing things your not sure how to do
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1939870 link for teachers only dancing gangham style

School District of
Mystery Lake
Hedley - lip dub

explain the logisitics of this
select song
ﬁnd lyrics lyrics.com
use google doc
select lines
create raw video at each of the schools where the student teachers were working
email clips to me
Stefan then edited in imovie
upload to a youtube channel

demo of how to create a shared spreadsheet in google docs
explain the choices
shared doc, preso, ss, etc.

so this is what we created run from this live link

What am i doing as
principal to support
our journey?

I ﬁnd,initiate, provide technical support then the teachers in our school make it happen

“Of course” - Scott McLeod

in many ways its a mindset
(poster I recently saw online by Scott McLeod)

X

“Of course” - Scott McLeod

I don’t think that’s what we are about at our school
It’s in part that I trust teachers to do the right thing
and they are willing to take risks and try things
and do the unusual without fear of failure

"When are we going to start asking
ourselves why we make it so hard to
be a great teacher?"
Chris Lehmann

http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann

"How do we create schools that
make it easier for all students
and teachers to shine?"
Chris Lehmann

http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1329-Beyond-The-Great-Teacher-Myth.html
“Beyond the great teacher myth” post Jan 2012 Chris Lehmann

create the climate of doing the unusual. permission to take risks
technical help when needed or I ﬁnd those who can help
example of darren and kristin yesterday with the smartboard
and systemic changes like Kristin’s schedule
tech buddies as an example of ongoing internal support

how do I show
others (who might
be interested)
what we’re doing
in our school

click on hotlink to hear soundcloud of our gr 8ʼs drumming

socialcam - Dylan and AC/DC
sometimes itʼs the little things that are going on in our school

pictures and tweets on twitter
the sharing of small things as frequently as possible

reﬁllable bottle station project.
I have applied for an LSF grant to be used towards this purchase
show actual ﬁrst use movie (next slide)

other things we are
working on right
now

Show me &
Student Led
Conferences

Mme. Erin’s grade 2’s were creating movies using showme.
These were shown to parents at our past SLC
.

here is a Demo of a grade1 clip

seed grant

Our books are QRCoded!
Hear what we think.

we also received a $900 ManAce Seed grant

we were featured in the ManAce journal- Spring issue

and this is what this project is about

this is a qr code. Demonstrate how they work using my phone and
qrbeamer. This code links back to our school website
riversiderams.wikispaces.com

Minecraft

explain the evolution of our clubs,
gr 7 boys
gr 5 girls
then gr 5 girls and boys
as a sense of belonging?

minecraft grade 5 club in autoplay movie

Printcraft

explain what us1printcraft.org is
here is our ﬁrst creation

explain the evolution of our clubs,
gr 7 boys
gr 5 girls
then gr 5 girls and boys

screenshare of the digital space
samples of the kids creations
tell the story of how we are doing this

3D printers

explain what us1printcraft.org is
here is our ﬁrst creation

Airserver

also can use instead of a document camera using your cellphone as the cam. Cost $4 compared to $1500 for a wireless document camera
use airserver and my phone to show the projects
pass the models around the room

here’s what Simone is working on

this is an example of online collaboration but I’ll let my students tell
you the story

Where to get
ideas from? ie. To
ﬁnd out what
other schools
are doing.

Where do I get project ideas to share with teachers, to try in our school etc.

Feedly.com and
RSS feeds

clude the .opml ﬁle on wiki for particpants to import
do a quick demo of my rss feeds on feedly and how to ﬁnd educatiional bloggers to read

Twitter
Lists
Hashtags
Twitterchats ie. #mbedchat

twitter, hashtags and twitterchats
lists -demonstrate my hootsuite stream
hashtags - at conferences how people are using to share between rooms or give 1 current example ie. #mathchat
twitterchats - #mbedchat explain what Zoe is doing with this (ie. The structure of it)
demo depending on available time
twitter, hashtags and twitterchats
lists -demonstrate my hootsuite stream
hashtags - at conferences how people are using to share beteen rooms or give 1 current example ie. #mathchat
twitterchats - #mbedchat
As an example do a couple
#mathchat
Twitterchats
Specifically what zoe is doing with #mbedchat√

Twitterchats

Edit 0 2 …
Wednesdays from 9-10pm CST
Manitoba Teachers #mbchat
Archive:http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/arc.html?key=tmglGXCiSPXlCkTY0NY7hzA
(mbchat.wordpress.com to get to the archive
use the tags searchable option)
script is
9:10 Q1
920 Q2
930 Q3
940 Q4

950 Q5

Wednesday from 7-8 p.m. CST
Connected principals chat #cpchat
archive:http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/9173

google hangouts

#savmp
cosl directors
demo a quick hangout with whoever I can connect with for 3 min

other places to find my geeky friends

why __________blank matters. unplug11 (Canadian educators) click on
this hotlink show a quick skim the essays. Manitobans invited were
Darren Kuropatwa, Andy McKeil, Clarence Fisher, Chris Harbeck, John
Evans, and me Rob Fisher.

in addition to the ebook, explain that we also all created a video
throughout the week about what really matters in education. Here is
the link to my video

explain at unplug12 (international) we all wrote “letters from the edge”.
click on the hotlink then on any person here to see their letter. I was a
facilitator at this session.

unplugd.ca as a source of people to follow on twitter to expand your PLN

for the last part of today’s session I would like everyone here to experience a hands-on opportunity to be part of a the “maker
culture”
makey makey intro
show the intro to what they are makeymakey.com

Makey Makey Activity

find an online site that
lets you control
something using the keys
on a keyboard

hookup the makey
makey board to control
the screen with the
materials given

Iʼve been using these in a grade 7 makers club and soon will be using in a few of our classrooms
your task today is to in groups at your tables
create something that controls an online website using the materials given
Cubefield.org.uk
arcade games online
musical instruments online

Summary of
what was
looked at
today

redo a wordle of what we looked at today

The things we looked at
today.........
If you don’t know robcfisher (as a
model of good presentation
techniques)
slideshare
Polleverywhere text
Pollev.presenter
who’s here today
Brenna Phillips
Geekiness
#savmp
urbandictionary.com
Positive traits of geekiness
Geeky friends
Make a difference mondays
Sophie Oulette
Sarah Fudge
Kristin Donovan
Ken Spencer award
Red Hand Day
Melyssa Girard
Kidblog
Sevec
Allison Kissick
Fortmacmoney.com
Erin Donovan
Lois Fisher
Teddybear travels
Chelsea McKay
Jenny Ashby
24 hour skype
Micheline Gagne

Wolves without borders
Babbit, Mn
Mexico
class wikis
Create more than you consume
Gr 1-3 flashmob
Gr 4-8 flashmob
Tubechop.com
Vertical video syndrome
Airserver
School District of Mystery Lake
lipdub
Google drive and google docs
Showme.com and student led
conferences
Feedly.com and RSS feeds
Minecraft
Printcraft
3D printers
Soundcloud
Social Cam
Water bottle filling station
Wordle.net
Twitter/hootsuite
Hashtags
#mbedchat
#cpchat
Maker culture
Manace
QR codes
collaboration
Google hangouts
makey makey boards
Unplugd11
Unplugd12

Ahbi
Pawandeep
Simone
Dylan
Avoiding death by powerpoint
Remind101.com
Polleverywhere polling
Animoto

Attributions
“Question mark” By flickr user Marco Bellucci

“Summer image of École Riverside school” By google streetview

“Three note strategies: iPad, Moleskine and iPhone” By flickr user andjohan
“A failed reminder” By flickr user massdistraction

“Winter image of École Riverside school” By robcfisher

“Creative commons welcome pack” By flickr user Carlfish
“Zoghal's magical eye” By flickr user looking4poetry

“Show me creation” courtesy of Mme. Pankratz gr 1
“Title page image of robcfisher” courtesy of Mme. Squires as part of our
schoolwide 50th anniversary image creation project

“create more than you consume” By flickr user tyler.wainright

“technology use” By flickr user mrsdkrebs

“Good Idea” By flickr user Celestine Chua

“Teddybear travels” pics by the students of Erin Donovan and Lois Fisher

“Rememberance day 2012 video” created by Hannah Murdy, Matt Tretiak and Matt
Rempel
“MTS and ManAce logo’s” used with permission from the parent associations
“ManAce seed grant video” created by robcfisher and Keyanna Boycho Oulette
Images also provided by Kristin Donovan, Sophie Ouelett, and Ashley Squires

“Geek ≈ Chic” By flickr user Timmy Toucan

“my geek venn diagram” By flickr user Technovore
“spotlight002” By flickr user k6martini
“do something unusual tomorrow” By flickr user
ModernDope (old account)
“Explosion of positive energy” By flickr user Lucas

all other images and video’s by robcfisher
and thanks to the staff of École Riverside school for providing many
wonderful examples of student learning and engagement to share.....

end with ?ʼs slide

“your turn ;p” By flickr user Maria Ly

Our school’s youtube channels

our school youtube channels
Ecoleriversideschool http://www.youtube.com/user/EcoleRiversideSchool
kristin, http://www.youtube.com/user/kmdrdpc
becky, http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUqKJD1BmWVxhK_iDihrSAQ
melissa’s http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93aLNyPC2lfKE6rhEHFuWQ

this is our most active channel

Things we didn’t have time for today

and we should teach our students and ourselves to avoid this.....
stop at 5:22

do you know what this is?
Have you ever actually used it?

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