Videos for the presentation are located at the following link: http://bit.ly/netleadervideos

1. The Networked
Educational Leader:
Using Social Media To Improve Learning and Leading

2. #edtechbc

3. About Me

4. Focus on
Relationships

6. From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cgbarrows/5460174652/sizes/l/in/
pool-858082@N25/

8. This is not about
technology...

9. This is not about
technology...
...it is about learning.

10. Goals of today
• To show why it is important to connect as a leader.
• To show why it is important to connect as an organization.

13. What about our kids
now?
Remixed from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/3139034331/

14. Why?

15. Why?
Your
You
Organization
Your Your
Staff Students

16. Let’s start with
you...

17. "You don't lead by pointing and
telling people some place to go.
You lead by going to that place
and making a case."
- Ken Kesey

18. Growth Fixed
What is your mindset?

19. The most important role a leader
can play education is that of a
learner.

20. You...lead learner

21. From: http://
engage.education.alberta.ca/
inspiring-action/

22. You are not into
sharing?

25. You...connecting to the best educators
all over the world.

27. http://georgecouros.ca
http://connectedprincipals.com

28. Connected Principals

29. Your organization...will become its
own press.

30. Do you think this is the
true message?

31. School Branding

32. The best leaders know how to
send AND receive.

33. What could possibly happen if we
don’t do this?

34. Are our schools
this branded?

35. Is this how you want
to be defined?

36. Your organization...will create
stronger relationships.

39. Connections
Donna Matwichuk
Jordan Conne
Kim Engler
Mrs. Cameron

40. Test...

41. From: http://
www.ecorazzi.com/
2008/02/13/british-
supermarket-tesco-
doubles-order-for-free-
range-chickens/
Is this picture okay to have
in this presentation?

42. From: http://
www.ecorazzi.com/
2008/02/13/british-
supermarket-tesco-
doubles-order-for-free-
range-chickens/
Is this picture okay to have
in this presentation?

43. Your staff...will become learners first.

45. Growth

46. Self-Directed
Innovation

47. Your students...use this anyway.

49. Yet as mobile and social technologies become
ubiquitous, attempts to block them are
increasingly ineffective. For example, in schools
that prohibit cell phones, 54% of students still
report sending texts during the school day
(Lenhart, 2010).

50. Yet as mobile and social technologies become
ubiquitous, attempts to block them are
increasingly ineffective. For example, in schools
that prohibit cell phones, 54% of students still
report sending texts during the school day
(Lenhart, 2010).
As with any other behavior, when schools teach
and set expectations for appropriate technology
use, students rise to meet the expectations. Such
conditions allow educators to focus on, in the
words of social technology guru Howard
Rheingold (n.d.), educating “children about the
necessity for critical thinking and [encouraging]
them to exercise their own knowledge of how to
make moral choices."

51. Your students...will have a voice.

52. We have to allow our students
to create their own content.

54. Your students...will inspire you.

56. Something transformational happens when students (and teachers!)
write, create and share for an authentic audience. In this instance,
the young artists of PS22 are not the only benefactors; it seems that
adults are profoundly moved by their voices and the hope that this
new generation represents.

58. Identity Day

59. Courage

60. Moving Forward

61. The Culture of Yes

63. The battle between the
“digital immigrants”
and the
“digital natives.”

65. You can either pursue
happiness, or create it.

68. We need to become connectors
From: http://uowblogs.com/digckdlh705/files/2010/08/social-network.jpg

71. Contact Me
Twitter - @gcouros
Blog - georgecouros.ca Email - georgecouros@gmail.com

72. References and Resources
Connected Principals - http://connectedprincipals.com
The Principal of Change - http://georgecouros.ca
Forest Green School - http://forestgreenschool.ca
Educational Leadership Blogs - http://bit.ly/edleaderbundle
Read: Open Leadership by Charlene Li
Shoutouts: @courosa, @shareski, @willrich45, @bhsprincipal, @nmhs_principal
(Find them on Twitter)