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- Education... the final frontier.
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- These are the voyages of Lamb, Johnson, and
the Washington Library Media Association...
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- Their mission is to seek out new information
and new technologies.
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- To boldly go where no educator has gone
before...
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Real TV
Technology Trailblazers
- Gather Supplies
- Set a Course
- Blaze a Trail
- Create Settlements
- Empower Others
- Gather Supplies
- Supplies on Hand
- Duct Tape
- Paperclips
- Rubber bands
- Post it notes
- Velcro
- Super glue
- Other Supplies
- Do you ever need things, but have no idea what
they are?
- Jaz & Zip
- DVD
- VRAM
- Yakies
- Find Resources
- Grants
- Lottery Money
- Principal Pals
- Parents
- Other People's Money
- Gather Supplies
- Your Mission:
- Create something that might be valuable for
your travels
- Your Supplies
- What Did You Make?
- Containers
- Clothes
- Transportation
- Shelter
- Tool
- Making Things Happen
- How did you make it?
- Got right to it
- Waited for inspiration
- Asked for help
- Needed a 2nd piece of paper
- Never found inspiration
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- Getting It Done
- Applied an existing skill
- Adapted an existing skill
- Learned a new skill
- - with help
- - on your own
- Expand Your Skills
- Personal Development
- Professional Development
- Local, state, global level
- Email, listservs, web
- Workshops, conferences, classes
- Setting A Course
- The "Right" Path
- Were you worried that your paper project
wouldn't be "right"?
- Do it, fix it later
- Watch and see
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Lewis & Clark Pathway
- River
- Indian & Animal Trails
- Cut Their Own Trail
- Which pathway will you choose? How many
pathways in a lifetime?
- Ride the Rivers
- Many channels to follow
- Usually no best way, rarely only one
choice
- "what's the best"
- Don't worry about it, do it.
- Which Way?
- When You're Lost...
- Don't quit
- Go over
- Go around
- Go through
- Beam me up Scottie!
- Following Trails
- Look for the most worn trail
- Talk to people who've been there
- Be an early adopter.
- Change Happens
- Trains bypassed the Pony Express in less than
a year
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- Blazing Your Own Trail
- It's strenuous, you wear out fast
- The weak don't survive
- It's cool, it's fun, and it's exhilarating! Be
a risktaker.
- Creating Settlements
- Creating Settlements
- Let's Be Johnny Appleseed
- If you throw them, it's like scattering seeds
in the wind.
- If you prepare the ground, it will take
root.
- Scattering Seeds
- Most staff development is like scattering
seeds
- Practical for a few, but miss the rest
- Neat info, but don't have the
tools
- Planting Seeds
- Mentoring is like planting seeds
- Working 1-on-1, teams
- Making personal contact
- Tailor to needs
- Empowering
- Empower Others
- Students
- Teachers
- Administrators
- Parents
- Ourselves
- Trailblazer Kids
- Reading
- Writing
- Calculating
- Experimenting
- Collaborating
- Sharing
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- http://met.open.ac.uk/heronsgate/projects/IntoSpace/GoingUp.html
- http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8981/
- http://www.az.com/~dday/books.html
- Trailblazer Teachers
- Professional Development
- Information Materials
- Instructional Materials
- http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/hurricane0.html
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- Trailblazers Library Media
Specialists
- Contingency Plans
- Be ready
- Be prepared
- Anticipate the glitch
- Copyright
- Censorship
- Floods, Earthquakes...
- Stash Ammunition
- Statistics
- Teacher/Admin Support
- PR
- Knowledge
- Connections
- Awareness
- Professional Portfolios
- Like Lewis & Clark journals
- Why?
- for self preservation
- for the record
- for sharing
- Professional Portfolios
- What are all the things you could
include?
- Reports
- Budgets
- Fliers
- Worksheets
- Activities
- Policies
Be a Risktaker
- What have you done?
- Stand up against
- Playground duties
- Library as dumping ground
- Share a time when you've stood up!
- Be an Innovator
- Services
- Resources
- Information
- Cooperation
- Working Together
- Supporting Others
- Ask for help
- Help others
- Collaborate
- Give and take
- Support others
- Give warm fuzzies
- Trailblazer Advise
- Facts of Life
- When the going gets tough, most people quit
- Systems lock up
- 1 in 3 web sites don't work
- Videotapes get erased
- Disks die
- Experts
- Every expert was once a beginner!
- The question is...will you survive long
enough?
- The Future?
- Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...
Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten
years
- Thomas Edison, 1913
- Northwest Passage
- There wasn't one!
- Anything is possible if you don't know what
you are talking about.
- Regrets
- We regret more things we didn't do than things
we did do.
- Possibilities
- Nothing is impossible.
- Some things just haven't been done
yet.
- Wishes
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- The future is that time when you'll wish you'd
done what you aren't doing now.
- Dreams
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- Don't just dream it, do it!
- 3 Kinds of People
- Make things happen
- Watch things happen
- Wonder what happened
- Empowerment
- Share your ideas
- Mentor others
- Share your knowledge & skills
- Give your resources to others
- It's about serving, not storing
- Your Mission
- Form new friendships
- Give it away
- Reach as far as you can
- Don't ask for (or expect) anything in
return
- Technology Trailblazers
- Gather Supplies
- Set a Course
- Blaze a Trail
- Create Settlements
- Empower Others
- Technology Tenderfoot
- Not everyone is cut out to be a
trailblazer.
- Technology Trailblazers
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- Are you a technology trailblazer? Take the
quiz!
- Technology Trailblazers
- ... own a set of itty-bitty
screwdrivers
- ... know the difference between ISBN and
ISDN
- ... think a gazillion baud modem would
still be too slow
- ... feel secure enough to say "I don't
know"
- ... wake up at 3AM to go to the bathroom
and stop to check your email on the way back to bed
- ... find yourself humming sounds that
imitate your modem
- ... refer to going to the bathroom as
downloading.
- ... all your friends have an @ in their
name.
- ... introduce yourself by your email as
alamb @ risc dot usi dot edu
- ... tell the cab driver you live at
http://10732.East.Sunset.Drive/house/woods/log.html
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On Trail Too Long...
- Have you spent too much time in the
sun?
- Are you lost on the trail?
- How can you tell?
- On Trail Too Long...
- ... you rotate your screen savers more
often than your car tires.
- ... you use smileys in your snail
mail.;-)
- ... you know a dozen different emoticons
more clever than :-)
- ... you've ended friendships over the
debate between Mac and Windows.
- ... you move into a new house and decide to
Netscape before you Landscape.
- ... the names of your children are Version
1, 2, and 3.
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- Be a Trailblazer!
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