tkt8763-01: Class Notes: 17 Nov 99

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

Hi all,

Who all have found, bought, borrowed tapes, books, cassettes, etc to listen 
to or read regarding Seminar in Planning? The MSU library is a great 
resource for all this material. Some of our online students can go to their 
local libraries and find some interesting things. Unfortunately, only MSU 
faculty or staff is able to check out some of the tapes and cassettes. 
However, you're local library may have different rules. We will not discuss 
the double standard here but accept it exists and know that we would never 
make policies which correspond to these policies.

Check out the following neat website: http://www.how2hq.com/

Has anybody read
*"Saber Tooth Curriculum" see 
http://aral.cse.msu.edu/CPS101US99/CSE101Visitor/saber.htm
"The Padeiea Proposal"
*"A Nation at Risk" see http://cgi.aros.net/~bernhj/Risk.htm
"Silicon Snake Oil"
*"School's Out" see http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/schools.out.html

Don't just read these hyperlinks, they are just some critique I found real  
 quick.

You all need to see the video "Goals" by Zig Ziglar.

I found some neat things at this site: 
http://www.lifeandsuccess.com/downloads.htm to download some screen savers.

Some neat quotes are at: http://www.bugimus.com/views/cqqt/cqqt.html

"The Dynamics of Effective Listening" is a good tape set that we all should 
listen too.

Good website for educators http://www.edsoasis.org/.

We then talked about Visions and Revisions. It is a pamphlet for creating a 
technology plan. Students a couple of semesters ago created it. The 
pamphlet is broken up into planning, observations, and adjustment within 
each specific area within the guidebook for technology planning. What it 
does specifically is have different areas of interest within different 
considerations. It is an interesting document that details a fictitious 
schools district plan. The plan is in the planning portion. Then 
observations are made of the plan. Finally, adjustments to the plan were 
made. Basically the pamphlet goes through creating a technology plan by 
creating a fictitious plan making observations, and evaluating it.
I know I have not done the book justice. Let me try again. The heart of the 
book is a fictitious technology plan. The students then make observations 
about this technology plan, finally they make adjustments to the technology 
plan to make it a more complete plan. The book essentially maps out the 
process of creating a technology plan.

We finished by talking about the purpose of SIP class. It is discovery 
learning. The whole purpose is to put people out of their comfort zone and 
make them learn. As we get closer and closer to a PhD, we will begin to 
realize that all the answers are not out there. We will begin creating the 
answers. Take a technology audit (or evaluation model, which I believe is 
the same thing) for example. There is not a good/recognized audit out 
there. We may need to create one. Maybe that is our task. It has not been 
done yet. We will realize that we are at a level that ideas we come up with 
are just a good as idea that others come up with. Do not be bashful. We are 
at a level to where we will discover the answer. My answer is not better 
than your answer nor is yours better than mine. We collectively have a lot 
of good to offer to any question and collectively will undoubtedly come up 
with the right answer.

This is definitely my feeble attempt at typing the jest of our conversation 
tonight.




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