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School:: Osseo Area Schools

Location (city, state):: Osseo, MN

Job title:: TICT

School or personal website:: http://themillennial.edublogs.org

When The Immigrant Hires The Native

So why did I pick that for a title? Well see, the day our school becomes a 1 laptop per child school, I am going to take all my journal entries and compose a book and give it the title: "When an Immigrant Hires a Native". The journal entries chronicle my journey from the day I was hired, the hours I have spent preparing presentations or reading research, to roll-out.

I had access to a computer since before I started Kindergarten- both at home and at school. I went through a progressive district that valued technology and then was hired by a principal who also valued technology.

Most importantly, I have to think about the future and if we continued doing the same things we will continue getting the same results. I did not enter teaching to produce the same results- I entered teaching to give students better opportunities than I was given.

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The Millennial and The Friend

There is some benefit to having that constant connectedness. The fact that I have my AOL IM on my phone or that in one day I can have a text messaging marathon. Quickly and efficiently, I can get my thoughts out to multiple people with a click of a few buttons.

Let me introduce briefly Camille. I have known Camille for the last ten or so years, she was the one who introduced me to speed skating and who I still to this day enjoy pie with on most Wednesdays. She is also the one who on… Continue

Posted on March 8, 2008 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

The Idea of Global Contribution

Cross posted from my blog

In February, St. Raphael's Catholic School hosted their annual State of the School. As I was assisting the teachers on their presentations and talking about various topics regarding educational technology, a nagging thought kept coming into my mind, "What is Global Contribution?" We talk as educators that we want our students to contribute to the community, but is today's community larger than our local… Continue

Posted on March 5, 2008 at 4:30pm

The New Job Hunt

I have been thinking about this and now I am really curious. When I was originally looking for a job in 2005, a cover letter and resume was no longer going to cut it in the competitive job hunt. I had the standard cover letter, resume, and also three references to tell more about me and academic transcripts showing that I struggled with Chemistry.

However, even with those additions that would not make me stand out as a candidate, I also had an online portfolio. Reason... I learned… Continue

Posted on January 21, 2008 at 12:28am

Being the Millennial

I know I will not be the youngest in my building forever. However, right now I have an interesting position of being the staff "baby". Actually, young enough to be many of the staff members children. Yikes!

I am blessed that I am mentored and not parented. Although, the uniqueness is actually that we have the four generational workplace. Learning about this interesting dynamic has really helped as we begun to look at 21st century learning.

So what has our staff learned in the… Continue

Posted on December 11, 2007 at 10:38pm

The Last Lecture

At SRS (the short name for our school) we have a "Think Tank" this is where teacher's post articles that they find interesting and want to share with other teachers. We have had a variety of articles posted, each with the goal to start a discussion. Some articles include:

Is Cursive Cursed?
Texting Boom and Injuries
OnLine Profiles and College Admissions

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Posted on December 3, 2007 at 10:12pm

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At 8:30pm on March 17, 2009, Laurie Bartels said…: Hi Lisa,
Just stopped by to say HI! Have the time, thanks to vacation, to visit old friends, so to speak :-) Been enjoying/participating in some conversations here about virtual schools, disrupting class, and prof dev communities. Hope all goes well with you!
Cheers, Laurie

At 9:09am on January 14, 2009, Dorothy Bialke said…: Lisa,
I think we could both come here a little more often.

Dorothy

At 3:13pm on October 10, 2008, Alex Inman said…: Hey Lisa,
Thanks for leaving a comment. Things have been good. We reached full roll out with the laptop program last year so this year we had relatively few new kids getting laptops. That has been wonderful! We are just coming off our ISACS self study and starting to re-envision our mission in the context of the global community. We are looking at looking at our mission and culture through the lens of Character, Globalization and Innovation. It's been fascinating. Things have been good with Educational Collaborators as well. We are talking to a school even north of you in Esko, MN!

At 12:03pm on August 4, 2008, Meg Truman said…: Hi Lisa,

From the Google apps thread I saw that your school is using Google Calendar. As a school we are looking into Google Calendar and have come across some bumps in the road. Would you recommend Google calendar? Would you be willing to talk to us more about it?

Thanks!

Meg Truman
Director of Educational Technology
Milwaukee Montessori School

At 12:46pm on May 1, 2008, Page Lennig said…: wow - now that's a tech plan! thanks for sharing. how do you present that to your school community?

At 8:58am on March 16, 2008, Sue Werner said…: Hi Lisa,
Thanks for the welcome. After reading through some of your entries, it sounds like we have some of the same goals. I'm a Director of Technology at a school for age 3-Grade 9. I, too, have been closely following a great deal about tech integration, 21st century learning, 21st century literacy, etc.

I even recently hired a media ethicist to do a parent talk on raising kids in a media saturated culture for late spring.

We should compare notes.

Sue

At 9:00am on March 8, 2008, Lisa Sjogren said…: Yep! That would be me skating. It was taken at the National Long Track Marathon February 22-23, 2008 in Bemidji.

At 7:27am on March 7, 2008, Laurie Bartels said…: Hi LIsa!
First of all, is that a picture of you speed skating? I read, with great interest, your web page post about global contribution, and concluded you live in a place where winter really happens :-) We had just two or three days of what I call "real winter" – which translates to snow.

Anyway, all is well here, thanks. I spent the winter being part of the student-faculty musical at my school, which is a 30+ year tradition. Rehearsals were in the evenings and I had little time for non-musical activities. We opened on 2/29 and closed on 3/1 (very limited run ;-) so now I'm "out and about" again!

Have been keeping up with reading the Ning posts but not writing. Look forward to getting back to being an active participant.

Happy Speed Skating!
Cheers, Laurie

At 10:11pm on March 6, 2008, Jane Soloway said…: HI Lisa,
Even though I joined this ning last fall I have just been reading and thinking. I am interested in developing our global initiative for more classes. I clicked on your comments and liked what you said about something small can become something more, and your discovery of the skater's blog. As a "senior" I am running uphill trying to keep up with technology, but I love looking into the future and perhaps you have given me the spark to do something I have thought about doing! Thank you!