A Blogging Plan!

A plan, a plan! I have a plan to make my teacher site a blog. To have more than the static welcome and required pages is my plan.

So far, other than maybe a cursory update none of the teachers at our school actually uses their sites. If I challenged the teachers to login, I would venture to say that 90%, or more,  wouldn’t even know their logins, much less where to go to access their page. Therefore, I am challenging myself to start actually using my site. Who knows, maybe it will be catching and others will follow.

While some content will stay the same, such as they course syllabus and contact information, the front page needs to become dynamic. This is where the plan comes into play. I am going to boldly go from nothing to an average of 2 posts a week! This is an aggressive schedule, but one that will hopefully garner a readership (even if it is an assigned one).

Week of:	Entry Type & Topic	Theme	Posting Date
August 3 – 9	Discussion – How PBIS is changing the school List – 5 positive changes on campus	School Culture	August 3 August 6
August 10 – 16	Goal Setting – SMART Goals Links – Career/Interest Inventories	Achievement	August 10 August 13
August 17 – 23	DIY – How to Prepare for Student Led Conferences List – Binder Checklist	Achievement Responsibility	August 17 August 21
August 24 – 30	Links – Best math sites for fluency practice	Achievement	August 24
August 31 – September 6	Event – The Great Device Roll Out List – Steps to care for your device	School Culture Responsibility	August 31 September 3
September 7 – 13	Discussion – Should students/parents have to pay a fee or provide insurance to take a laptop home?	Responsibility Achievement	September 7
September 14 – 20	Discussion – How is Digital Curriculum Affecting You? Links – Keyboarding sites	Achievement	September 14   September 17
September 21 – 27	Discussion – Do you affect the attendance competition? List – Benefits of attending school	School Culture   Achievement	September 21   September 24
September 28 – October 4	Guest Blogger	Respect	Week of September 28

The challenge is set! Let the blogging begin…

 

Technology Use Planning Overview

Change is coming…..

What is technology use planning?

• It is a short term plan that focuses on technology applications to reach desired outcome for learners and educators.
• It is a SMART goal for learning utilizing technology in curriculum delivery.
• It is embedded in staff development

The one thing that really stood out to me in the Transforming American Education Learning Powered by Technology (United States Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2010) publication is the shift to a learner focus. The plan must address the questions:  what are the desired outcomes for the learners, and how can technology enhance the learning and curriculum delivery? While building an infrastructure is critical, institutional hardware and software purchasing shouldn’t be what drives the plan. We are in the business of education, and our customers are the students. It is their needs that should be driving our planning. A couple of years ago my state began requiring the technology plan be tied to school improvement goals. I think this is a major step forward in outcome based technology planning. We have a ways to go, but it is progress.

In the article Developing Effective Technology Plans, See (1992) made a strong case for short term plans, stating the rapid change in technology. I agree that plans need to be for shorter time spans. For the past 12 years, I have been involved in one aspect or another with a district’s technology team. For six years this included writing the technology plans and e-rate applications. The technology plans were in 5 year increments, with an option to update (if approved by the state). This was/is a tedious and time consuming task, trying to plan for technology that may be antiquated in a couple of years. The focus of the plans seemed to be on quantity – how many computers, running what applications. Quality of integration or learning sadly was not the focus.  See (1992) points out that student outcome should drive the technology use plan. He continues to say that curriculum enhancement and staff development are also critical elements of and effective plan.

References:

Anderson, L. (1996). Guidebook for developing an effective instructional technology plan, version 2.0. National Center for Technology Planning. Retrieved from http://www.nctp.com/downloads/guidebook.pdf

See, J. (1992). Developing effective technology plans. National Center for Technology Planning. Retrieved from http://www.nctp.com/html/john_see.cfm

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Technology Education. (2010). Transforming American education: learning powered by technology (Contract No. ED-04-CO-0040). Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/netp2010.pdf

 

Technology Use Planning Overview

Change is coming…..

What is technology use planning?

• It is a short term plan that focuses on technology applications to reach desired outcome for learners and educators.
• It is a SMART goal for learning utilizing technology in curriculum delivery.
• It is embedded in staff development

The one thing that really stood out to me in the Transforming American Education Learning Powered by Technology (United States Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, 2010) publication is the shift to a learner focus. The plan must address the questions:  what are the desired outcomes for the learners, and how can technology enhance the learning and curriculum delivery? While building an infrastructure is critical, institutional hardware and software purchasing shouldn’t be what drives the plan. We are in the business of education, and our customers are the students. It is their needs that should be driving our planning. A couple of years ago my state began requiring the technology plan be tied to school improvement goals. I think this is a major step forward in outcome based technology planning. We have a ways to go, but it is progress.

In the article Developing Effective Technology Plans, See (1992) made a strong case for short term plans, stating the rapid change in technology. I agree that plans need to be for shorter time spans. For the past 12 years, I have been involved in one aspect or another with a district’s technology team. For six years this included writing the technology plans and e-rate applications. The technology plans were in 5 year increments, with an option to update (if approved by the state). This was/is a tedious and time consuming task, trying to plan for technology that may be antiquated in a couple of years. The focus of the plans seemed to be on quantity – how many computers, running what applications. Quality of integration or learning sadly was not the focus.  See (1992) points out that student outcome should drive the technology use plan. He continues to say that curriculum enhancement and staff development are also critical elements of and effective plan.

References:

Anderson, L. (1996). Guidebook for developing an effective instructional technology plan, version 2.0. National Center for Technology Planning. Retrieved from http://www.nctp.com/downloads/guidebook.pdf

See, J. (1992). Developing effective technology plans. National Center for Technology Planning. Retrieved from http://www.nctp.com/html/john_see.cfm

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Technology Education. (2010). Transforming American education: learning powered by technology (Contract No. ED-04-CO-0040). Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/netp2010.pdf

 

This is a test of the standards list.

This test should activate all standards and POs.