John D. Ross, Ph.D.

As an instructional designer with expertise in educational technology, I use my unique set of skills to help schools, districts, states, and education organizations solve complex instructional problems. My passion is helping educators to use educational technologies to improve school and student achievement.

My areas of experience and expertise include:

Online Interview

Check out this audio interview from December 2011 for School Leadership Breifing to hear about some practical tips for considering the benefits of online professional development.

My new book about online professional devevelopment was selected as Book-of-the-Month for July 2011 by Learning Forward (formerly the National Staff Development Council). As of December, if only 36 more copies are sold, it'll be considered a "best seller" by the publisher. It's too late for Christmas, but maybe a Valentine's Day gift for that special someone? C'mon, help me be a best selling author. Thanks!

Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use is the first textbook that addresses the revised NETS for Teachers. Written with co-authors, Katherine Cennamo and Peg Ertmer.

Published in 2009 by Corwin Press, Transformers: Creative Teachers for the 21st Century by Mary Kim Shreck includes my Technology and the Creative Classroom. Get your copy from Corwin Press or your favorite bookseller.

The Last Gasp of the Textbook

February 25, 2012

So, I’ve got a new thing that keeps me up at night. Over the past year, my co-authors Kathy Cennamo and Peg Ertmer and I have been working on a second draft of the technology textbook. It’s only been out for three years, two if you go by the copyright, but evidently that’s long enough for the publisher to force us back to the grindstone. Despite what I thought were lackluster sales, with me being responsible for two of the largest adoptions, we’ve been spending the better part of a year going back over the book and revising it.

The good news is that we all believe it’s a much better book....The bad news is, no one is going to buy it.

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