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Most people equate leadership with a specific position or job title. But you need more then a title on the door to have followers. True leadership is the ability to influence people to achieve a better result for an organization or group.

Teaching tech in isolation never works. When a reluctant tech user learns how to do something with a project about which they're personally passionate, they're gonna be instantly engaged, work hard at it, and feel super exultant when it works!

Grant Smith Former educator turned teacher trainer and CS education consultant helping districts bring coding to all students. Becoming a coding teacher doesn't need to be intimidating. I've tried to convert real programmers into after-school coding teachers and it completely bombed. Trust me -- as a well-trained teacher, you have all of the skills you need to be successful.

I follow this site off of Facebook. They do great things here and I have found many solutions and ideas in what is posted. Below is a recent post: This is a guest post from Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) of EdTechTeacher, an advertiser on this site. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy, Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell, young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects.

I attended several years ago and spoke with many legislators at the Capitol about the importance of libraries. This was so awesome! The people missing were: School Libraries. I am going to try to attend this year

An advocacy toolkit for school librarians.

Interesting article about what trends to watch.

Free to download. Tons of resources.

Great advice for advocating for school libraries.

I recently sat down with Terry Heick from TeachThought.com to chat about a whole host of topics, including global warming, data privacy, ePortfolios, and blogging with students. Terry and I met while on a whirlwind tour of Israel's education system late last year. We talk a bit about that trip, too, including our weirdest moments and memories.

As a teacher, Google Docs is definitely an important tool in your digital toolkit. It provides you with an easy and simple platform where you can compose, work collaboratively and share your documents. With the introduction of third party add-ons, Docs' functionalities have been tremendously expanded empowering users with a plethora of advanced features available only in premium writing editors.

Like that although this is a Public Library site, advocates/supports the idea of the library as a community center.

Provides a list of how technology has changed the classroom. Makes you think about the movement in teaching from using technology b/c you have to, to using technology b/c you need to.

25 tips for teaching with apps. Thought the idea of combining apps in instruction seems like such a simple idea, but I know that might not be used by all.

So many great tips. Most teachers in my school use Google Classroom, so this was helpful.

Maegan Heindel's postcard on what your librarian can do for you