About John

Welcome! Technology Times is the blog of John Hendron, director of innovation and strategy for Goochland County Public Schools.

I write for two audiences: the public at large and our teachers. This blog replaces some of the content we’ve been publishing for a number of years in a paper newsletter format. Since SY 2005-06, I’ve been blogging about education and technology here, and hopefully this is your first stop online to see what’s new and interesting with the intersection of education and technology in Goochland County.

Since 2000, I’ve been heavily involved with the Virginia Society for Technology in Education and am author of the book, RSS for Educators.

My job responsibilities have included over the past several years:

• Systems administration of two Moodle servers
• Administration of schools and division web server
• Administration of WordPress blogging server
• Administration of GoogleApps for Education for Teachers and Students
• Administration of Ning service for teachers
• Professional Development services for administrators, teachers, and support staff
• Author, acceptable use policies, equipment loan policies
• Committee lead on 6-year division technology plan
• Past chair, member of GRAETC (Greater Richmond Area Educational Technology Council)
• Designer, division brochures, communications, course description guide, instructional newsletters, division visual identity
• Supervisor, division instructional technology resource teachers
• Supervisor technology professional development program
• Member, division instructional leadership team
• Member, technology team
• Architect, Goochland Twenty-First Century Skills Initiative (G21)
• Architect, Goochland Digital Citizenship Initiative (C21)
• Technology grant facilitator (state, federal)
• Trainer, after school technology classes, New Teacher Academy, and summer workshops
• Member, Goochland’s CenterStage Committee
• Mentor, students and teachers
• Photographer, videographer for division initiatives
• Support, eSOL testing administration
• Porting of Code of Conduct and Employee Handbooks Online

Most recently, new responsibilities have included the re-design of the GLND website, upgrading to a new instance of WordPress, and maintaining the Goochland social media accounts, including Edmodo, Twitter, and Facebook. In addition I publish the instructional newsletter as a member of the instructional leadership team. Since the summer of 2013, I became involved in helping to develop our division strategic plan.

Since July, 2012, I am serving on the division’s leadership team.

Areas of expertise I use often include:

• Mac OS X Client, Server
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Microsoft Office
• Filemaker Pro
• iChat/Jabber Services
• Apple iLife apps
• Apple iWork apps
• Omni Graffle, Outliner
• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Google Apps (Google Certified Teacher)
• Digital photography and photo editing
• Blogging and Podcasting
• XHTML and CSS “programming”
• Apache/PHP web services
• ExpressionEngine CMS
• PMWiki, MediaWiki services