Audience

• Administrators
• Teachers and Librarians
• IT support
  

Strands

• Creating and Maximizing Learning Networks
  
• Communication and Collaboration Tools
  
• Communication and Collaboration Practices
  
• Building Policy to Support Vision
  
  

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Leading with Connection: Make and Take a Plan for Today!

The TIE Colorado/ISTE Leadership Bootcamp is an event designed to build understanding, facilitate conversations, and develop a framework for change. Leaders from all levels (school and district administrators, IT professionals, classroom teachers, librarians, district coordinators, and others) will engage in a day of learning and thinking that will lead to developing a working plan for improving communication and collaboration practices in their school or district.

The Bootcamp will be held on Friday, June 25, from 5-7pm and Saturday, June 26, 8-5 at the Denver Hyatt Regency Hotel prior to the ISTE 2010 conference in Denver. During the day, you'll have a chance to interact with other technology advocates as you learn from a panel of experts who embody effective communication and collaboration practices including:

• Mark Benno
• Steve Dembo
• Scott Elias
• Karl Fisch
• Lucy Gray
• Elizabeth Hubbell
• Kate Kemker
• Chris Lehmann
  
• Dan Maas
• Dan Magyar
• Scott McLeod
• Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
• Carl Owens
• Jeff Piontek
  
• Howard Pitler
• Mike Porter
  

The Leadership Bootcamp will include four areas of focus:

• Creating and Maximizing Learning Networks
• How does knowledge of the networks around us help us to work more effectively?
• From your role, how can developing a learning network help you?
  
• What learning networks are already there for you to join? 
  
• What networks can you help to create/support/learn/grow?
• Communication and Collaboration Tools
  
• What can communications tools do for your organization?
  
• What tools help us to better communicate? Which ones don't?
  
• How are the tools of the read/write Web creating new opportunities for communication?
• Communication and Collaboration Practices
• How do we communicate?  Where?  When?  To Whom?
  
• What considerations need to be at the forefront as you develop practices within your school or district community?
  
• How might you create, facilitate, and encourage the use of digital spaces?
• Building Policy to Support Vision
  
• Thinking about your district and school vision, what policies are in place that either support or restrict your ability to communicate with digital tools?
  
• What changes to your policies will help you reach your vision?

The Leadership Bootcamp will provide avenues for participants to explore and exchange ideas about what good digital communication and collaboration looks and sounds like from multiple perspectives. The Bootcamp day will include a selection of breakout sessions, a morning keynote by Jeff Piontek, a panel session and luncheon conversation moderated by Chris Lehmann and much more.  In addition, there are several free online events that will occur prior to June 26, including four virtual sessions hosted by Classroom 2.0 and online discussions centered around the Bootcamp themes:
 



To participate in any of the events leading up to the Bootcamp, visit http://leadershipbootcamp.ning.com

Those attending the Bootcamp on June 26 are also invited to the Leadership Bootcamp Kickoff Event and Colorado Corporate Showcase on the evening of June 25. Sponsored by TIE Colorado's Corporate Exhibitors, this evening reception will be an opportunity to network with others attending the event.

Following the ISTE conference, a followup virtual event led by Bootcamp Co-chair Michelle Bourgeois will occur in the Fall of 2010 so that participants may report on progress, share successes, ask questions, reconnect with friends from the day, and set next steps.

We hope you will join us for one or all of these exciting opportunities! The fee for the evening kickoff on June 25, and the full Bootcamp day on June 26 (including lunch) is $155.   Register soon at the ISTE 2010 website, http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/. Spots will fill up quickly.

Link to original Google planning doc