Professionals: Jamie McKenzie
Prior to devoting himself to full time speaking and writing in 1997, Jamie was the Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools. He now supports technology efforts in schools across North America, Australia, and New Zealand. He has also worked on technology planning with state education departments.
Personal Webpage: http://www.fno.org/JM/aboutauthor.html
Websites edited/published by Jamie McKenzie:
From Now On http://www.fno.org/ (Subject
index http://fno.org/fnoindex.html )
No
Child Left http://nochildleft.com/
Staff
Development & Adult Learning http://staffdevelop.org/
Questioning http://questioning.org/
Articles & Documents:
Buser, Emily. An Interview with
Jamie McKenzie: K-12 Technology
Issues. Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), and the
Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
http://www2.edc.org/LNT/news/Issue9/feature2.htm
Brown, Melissa Burgos. Avoiding the Screen Savers
Disease (Interview
of Jamie McKenzie).
http://www.4teachers.org/keynotes/mckenzie/index.shtml
Jamie McKenzie talks about keeping your focus on the students when
technology planning. That means investing in staff development so that
your computers don't go to waste.
McKenzie, Jamie. Just in Time Technology from edtech.not,
2003.
http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle303.html
Article
is an excerpt from ‘s most recent book, Just
in Time Technology: Doing Better with Fewer (FNO Press, 2002). In this book
he argues that it makes sense to have just enough technology (just
in time) to get the job done.
McKenzie, Jamie. The New Library in the Wired
School.
From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal, Jan. 2000.
http://www.fno.org/jan2000/newlibrary.html
Module Maker
http://questioning.org/module/module.html
This Module Maker will show you how to build your own online research modules
that will challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying
them with rich information to support such thinking.
Related Web Activity:
Making Good Lessons Quickly http://questioning.org/module2/quick.html
Selected Book:
McKenzie, Jamie. Beyond Technology: Questioning,
Research, and the Information Literate School. The Twiggs Company,
2000.
http://fnopress.com/beyondtech.html