Scott McLeod

Scott McLeod

Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Iowa State University

Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Kentucky. He also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators, and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa, and the National School Boards Association. In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Mind Dump, and occasionally at The Huffington Post. He can be reached at scottmcleod.net.

Many of you have never seen these parodies of the old Monster.com commercial… Happy viewing! Teacher Movie (Marco Torres & Lesley University) Administrator Movie (Wes Fryer & University of Central Oklahoma)
The latest issue of EDUCAUSE Review has a number of excellent articles on openness. One that particularly resonated with me was Maria Andersen’s To Share or Not To Share: Is […]
A new video from New Brunswick, in the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) style. Well worth a watch! 
Three months ago I posted about my 6,000th Twitter follower. Apparently I’m already up to 7,000. I’m not sure what to make of that rapid growth, but thank you, Mrs. […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Tom Hoffman deconstructs the English / Language Arts standards from the Common Curriculum. Sylvia Martinez reminds us that an important online safety report discourages […]
Okay, I think I’ve got this figured out, at least for now… I use five primary tools to post content and resources to the Web: Dangerously Irrelevant – where I put my […]
In an earlier post on 21st century curricula, I noted the following quote by Dr. Lauren Resnick, one of our nation’s most eminent cognitive researchers, writing at the time for the […]
Five online resources worth checking out… In an excellent post about the leadership we need today, Will Richardson notes that “if you’re waiting for the conversation in the coffee shop […]
I’m a huge fan of Google Chrome; every other browser seems poky and/or unstable in comparison. If you haven’t used it, I highly recommend you try it. You may never […]
[UPDATE: I had enough interest for two people per day for the week of September 20. All the slots are full now. Thanks. I’m looking forward to the week!] I’m […]
Hmmm… What’s in there that’s not available in at least a dozen places on the Web for free?
A quote from Erica McWilliam, via Will Richardson’s latest post. Download this file: pngpptpptx See also my other slides and the Great Quotes About Learning and Change Flickr pool. Image […]
It’s the first day of school here in Ames, Iowa. In past years, I’ve posted the following checklist, wondering if schools have made any improvement since the previous fall. This […]
On Monday I published the final list of Leadership Day 2010 posts. Today I’m going to highlight a few that, for one reason or another, particularly resonated with me. This is […]
Well, after sorting through all of the Leadership Day 2010 posts, tracking down incorrect URLs, deleting a few nonexistent items, and reviewing some attempts to recycle old posts, I believe […]
Four years ago today I made my very first post here, noting that: [When it comes to P-12 technology, we] can (and do) pour ungodly sums of money into teacher […]
Yesterday CASTLE’s 1to1 Schools blog topped 700 subscribers. Woo hoo! n Remember that CASTLE has a growing family of blogs related to educational leadership issues. In addition to 1to1 Schools, […]
We continue to spend 80% of our classroom time (or more) on the skills needed for 10% of our jobs.
You can tell a lot about an organization’s priorities from its policy advocacy goals. Below are the national policy priorities for America’s four main national school leadership associations (NAESP, NASSP, AASA, […]