Sep
11
Written by:
Dan Maas
9/11/2007
Last month, I assumed the office of President of the Colorado Association of School Executives. We have a video of my adress in which we spotlighted some promising 21st Century instructional practices happening in LPS...
It is hard to express just how nervous I was at the podium. In my years as a CASE member, I have never seen the Ballroom at Beaver Run in Breckenridge more than half full on the Friday morning keynote when the next President receives the gavel. This year, it was standing room only as hundreds of school administrators... colleagues, leaders, professionals I admire, were there to listen to Daniel Pink... but they had to listen to me first [;-) The feeling of inadequacy is hard to describe.
I thought you might want to see the address since we featured the fishbowl blogging video as part of the address. After this address, we made an attempt at fishbowl blogging for the Daniel Pink keynote which resulted in over 135 blog postings. I'm hopeful that we'll use this technique again during a keynote and that in the future, this form of interactivity becomes a norm for CASE.
Here are some relevant links you may wish to explore:
Dan Maas Presidential Address There is a 30 second segment where the sound is a bit off...
Fishbowl training (video) This video was embedded into a Power Point which had the following footer:
Special thanks for development of this technique and video:
Anne Smith, Karl Fisch - Arapahoe High School
Mike Porter, Randy Stall - Littleton Public Schools
CASE Blog You should see a Keynote Live blog. Only CASE members can participate in the Presidential blog