Links from the show!

• Principals Page
• Alec Courosa
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Resume Design and Give Your Resume a Face Lift
• ISLLC Standards
• Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation (Attendance Page)
• EduCon 2.1
• Twitter (Scott / Melinda)
• iWork ’09 / iLife ’09

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The Principals talk about the high- and low-tech tools that they use to stay in control of their lives, both at home and at work.

Links from the show:

• Franklin-Covey Planners
• iCal
• Google Calendar
• Spanning Sync
• BusySync
• iPhone
• Things
• Remember the Milk
• Moleskine Notebooks
• Dash-Plus Method (scroll way down the page…)

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Links

• K12 Online Conference
• Seedlings Podcast
• TextMarks
• Not K12 Online Conference
• Things (iPhone version)
• Evernote
• TheFind.com

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Scott & Melinda talk about welcoming new teachers and, of course, Melinda’s new iPhone.

Links for the show:

• District Leaders Podcast
• edmodo
• MobileMe
• BusySync
• Spanning Sync
• Things

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We begin season 2 of our show with a little catching up and a little discussion of some of the ways we spend our “summer work” time.

• 32 Third Graders & One Class Bunny by Phillip Done
• Willard East website
• PB Wiki
• Amazon Kindle
• Stanza (hat tip to one of my virtual mentors, Tim Lauer, for the hook-up on this one!)

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If you are fortunate to have some time off this summer, enjoy! The Practical Principals will be back in the fall with new shows so you can learn more about everything they didn’t teach you in grad school!

I will be mostly bumming around town with the family, but we have a trip planned to Yellowstone in July. As for Melinda, life will be getting twice as exciting with the upcoming birth of her second daughter!

We’ll keep you up-to-date, but look for more from us in the fall!!

We’re finally in the double-digits with this, our tenth episode of Practical Principals. Among other things, we discuss interviewing, hiring, and Melinda’s new Mac. In addition, it’s worthwhile to note that the audio for this program has improved significantly with the addition of Scott’s new Snowball mic to his “studio.”

Highlights:

• Format change – tech talk to be moved to the end of the show
• Scott got a new mic (finally)
• Melinda got a new Mac (finally)
• Snapz Pro X
• Macheist
• Parallels Desktop
• iWork
• Google Docs
• Entrepreneur Thought Leaders podcast
• Wire Tap Studio

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Updated 9/29/08: Interview Questions

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This is it – the episode you’ve anticipated! The recording that prompted Melinda to finally buy that MacBook she’s always wanted!

We talk mostly about standardized testing, but as always here are some links for you:

• OrgJunkie
• Cynthia Matzat’s “What’s for dinner?”
• Evernote

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Thanks for continuing to listen to the Practical Principals! The long-awaited “book review” episode is finally here, complete with Skype hiccups… I apologize in advance for the Skype issues, but I still think it was a great show!!

Links from the show…

• FETC 2009
• Getting Things Done (David Allen)
  • The Podcasting Principal (Melinda interviews Scott about GTD)
  • Inbox Zero (Merlin Mann of 43 Folders)
• Motivating and Inspiring Teachers (Todd Whitaker)
• What Great Teacher Do Differently (Todd Whitaker)
• Results Now (Michael Schmoker)
• If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students (Neila A. Connors)
• The Now Habit (Neil Fiore)
  • Now Habit Wiki
• Audible
• TWiT and MacBreak Weekly
• I Want Sandy
• Remember the Milk
• Flickr
• Wes Fryer
• “Story Bits” Idea for Faculty Meetings

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