tkt8763-01: Class Notes: 13 Oct 99

[Christopher & Raydene Wolney <wolney@ebicom.net>]

Hi all,

We are in the Mitchell Memorial Auditorium. For those of you who haven't 
been here before it is reminisent of the old lecture halls. It has chalk 
boards and white boards up front and stair-stepped chairs for the audience. 
If it was painted off green vs off blue, it would remind me more of the 
Army. However it is more hi-tech since it has LAN hookups at all stations. 
So we are internet compliant, hooah (civilian translation - all right).

Dr. A. is currently up in the front of class listening to motivational 
tapes from Zig Ziglar or Earl Nightingale. I guess he is getting a little 
discouraged and needs your input on e-mail to him to brighten his day. 
Actually he is trying to find a specific point on a tape, I think.

Now off to the races.
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Planning for Gold

Do not know how good these notes are/were. I was not feeling well and 
therefore was not in the mood to take detailed notes.

Basic concepts of technology planning and learn new concepts in planning 
for technology. There are no premier experts with regard to technology 
planning. Everybody has good ideas and we need to share ideas. We will 
cover stategies for technology planning.

Dr. A. would like to dedicate this planning for gold to Rob Hammer. He was 
a campus technology coordinator in Killeen, TX. He was a champion of 
hypermedia instruction. He was able to teach hyperstudio in his own unique 
way. Rob fell victim to cancer during the sprint of 1998 and took its toll 
in August 1998. His gentle nature and outstanding teaching ability are for 
all to emulate.

Dr A. introduced the audience-us.

One of the most compelling questions comes from Brian Tracy. What one great 
thing would you dare to dream if you knew beyond a shadow of doubt you 
could not fail? Interesting and compelling question.

Several Concepts will emerge in this program.
1.This program will uncover the goldmine of possibilities that is within 
you and the organization you work with.
2.In addition, this program will help you plan a technology plan
3.Your unique qualities
4. Strategies to leverage efforts in your own communities.
5. Planning and action.
6. Intergize you to take action immediately and sustain it.

No Limitations Belief (NLB): anything worth considering is possible. NLB is 
not that you will do a certain thing it just removes the shackles from your 
minds so you can experiment without limit.

Timing without action is nothing. Timing with action is everything.

Things to do during this program:
1. Have a notepad handy.
2. Take good careful notes. Make sure they are thorough
3. This program my generate more questions than answers. However, that is 
good because that is how we learn.
4. Follow the advise of Jim Rohn. The best way to learn is from other 
peoples experiences.

Story about a technology pioneer. This story occurred in the south in the 
summer. The school had several computers. Schools did not want teachers to 
take home computers. Well the custodians clean the floors during the 
summer. The computers got hot and damp from the water being put on the 
floors to strip the wax. A basic principle of science called oxidation is 
that it occurs with heat and condensation. Needless to say, every single 
computer was ruined. Every single one.

Things to do after the program:
1. Review your notes
2. Rewind the tapes and listen to them again.
3. Hunt for new meaning
4. Share your thoughts
5. Encourage others
6. Read
7. Keep a Journal

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Dr. A. is giving a vacation away after this program basically all around 
the world. All expense paid. For those that are ready to go, we leave 
tomorrow morning. To go tomorrow you will have to do alot of things 
tonight. You would probably write a list. You would have to start planning 
how to accomplish everything before tomorrow morning. The same is with a 
technology plan. We need to write a list. We need to plan. This is one of 
the goals in this program.

Personal Goal Statement: Establish a solid framework for technology 
planning which will ensure phenominal success for  those who use the 
framwork. Ground rule for technology planning is
1. Suspend Disbelief
2. Expect success
3. Reject the ne-sayers (SWSWSWN)
4. You are a leader

Three things which will lead to success are to have a
1. Plan
2. Purpose
3. Promise

With regards to technology planning we need to look at the plan as a noun 
and as a verb.
1. Noun: The technology plan is the roadmap.
2. Verb: Even though you have the roadmap, the action of the plan can never 
be fully understood just by looking at the document itself.

With regards to Technology planning we look at the
1. Process
2. Product

Process:
-In technology planning, we must have both a superb process and then we 
will have a superb product.
-Consider a cooking show. Think how much time is spent on the process vs 
the product. Would you rather have the meal in which the chief spent a 
great deal of time preparing the meal or a fast food hamburger?
-Imagine a circle. Place three dots on the circle. One a 10, one at 2, one 
at 6. At 10 write plan, at 2 write implement, at 6 write evaluate. Plan, 
Implement, Evaluate (PIE). Notice that when we leave evaluate, we go back 
to planning. Think plan, do, review.
-Imagine another circle. Inside circle write the word plan. Draw another 
circle and write implement. The circles should overlap. Draw a third circle 
and write evaluate. Let this circle intersect with the other circles. Now 
we notice there is overlap and duplication. This is what we want.

In the planning process we have
1. Plan:
-Select committee
-Form committee
-Select chairpersons
-Collect data
-Interpreting data
-Analyze data
-Conduct Needs Analysis
-Look at other technology plans
-Interview other technology plan committee members
-Have a "State of the school" address.
-Illicit help from volunteers.
-Submit rough draft to all planning members.
-Accept all changes.
-Share plan to all school stakeholders.
-Accept all changes.
-Get all chief administrators to sign off on the plan.
-Plan submitted to school board for approval.
-Once approved, it is official

2. Implement:
-Get everybody ready to implement
-Capture positives with photographs
-Hold professional development sessions to train the technology
-Purchase and install new equipment
-Applications for technology are linked
-Support for plan is present (Technical, administrative, etc)
-Have incentive (for example, profesional development sessions)
-Check legal (AUP-acceptable use policies)
-Security Issues
-Assessing technology application ie. How resources are used.

3.Evaluation:
-It is ongoing
-We start evaluating the process
-We evaluate the planning
-We evaluate the implementation scheme
-Interconnect between technology-students-teachers
-Illuminate weaknesses in plan
-Hold second "State of the school" with results.
-Make course corrections.

4.Interactions: the space in the middle of all three circles
-When the plan is good and implemented well, the circle merger more and 
more.

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We need to leverage time
-Establish priorities Urgent vs important
-Know what is critical and what is casual
-Think of how much time you give
-Think of how much time you will serve
-When is time most valuable
-How valuable do you want other to think your time is
-If somebody would listen to your best advice what would you tell them

Golden Nuggets (I missed some of this so I missed some key points I am 
sure)

1.Keys to time management
-Know the purpose
-Think productivity
-Leverage other people's time
-Realize the importance of getting on tasks and staying on tasks.

2.Tap into Hidden Talents
-Stop, look and listen
-Establish a talent SWAT team-discover hidden talents in people
-Offer training
-Spotlight staff that have done great things
-Nurture hidden talents
-Lure talents out of hiding
-Craft a culture of encouragement

3. Develop Resources
-Match
-Maximize
-Sustain
-Resources are people not just things.
-Leverage resources
-Know how to apply what to which key task

To plan for gold
-Build upon people
-Depend on people



Chris Wolney

Shoot, Move, and Communicate
Armor, The Combat Arm of Decision!

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