Technical Leadership: Thinking and Planning Strategically.

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Technical LeadershipThinking and Planning
Strategically.
Leigh Woods Carlton North Primary.

• Information and Communication Technology.

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Strategic Thinking
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ICT Strategic Vision.

• a future where ICT and eLearning fully
  integrates within the teaching and learning
  program at Carlton North Primary School.
  
• Draft ICT Planner 2007

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eLearning, the definition.

• Allows for engaged, collaborative learning.
• Enables learners to access environments, tools
  and resources at their own pace, in their own
  time and from wherever they might be.
  
• Empowers learners with responsibility for their
  own learning experience.
  
• Acts as a catalyst for authentic, meaningful
  learning experiences.
  
• Offers powerful new possibilities for teacher
  professional development, student engagement and
  meaningful school/community integration.
  

DEECD
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Strategic Vision.
Draft ICT Planner 2007
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Strategic Thinking

• five year plan with less detail as you go on
  .. its not the detail you want, its the general
  direction that you need, futures thinking and
  having ideas to generate discussion.
• Brent Davies.

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Technical understanding

• Moore's Law. The first microprocessor only had
  22 hundred transistors. We are looking at
  something a million times that complex in the
  next generationsa billion transistors. What that
  gives us in the way of flexibility to design
  products is phenomenal. Gordon E. Moore.
  Moore's Law, states that the number of
  transistors on a chip doubles about every two
  years.

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Key Personnel.

• TSP and Local Technicians.
• Technical Support.
• ICT Focus Group.
• Staff, students and wider community.
• The Principal, Ann Stafford.
• Finance Committee.
• School Council.
• DEECD

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Situational Awareness

• Key Personnel in big picture situational
  analysis of Network, Hardware, Software.
  
• Revisit historical information.
• Analysis Past v Present.
• (Re) Prioritisation of where to from here.
• Communication and discussion.

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Situational Awareness

• Curriculum Server instability.
• Hardware incompatibility, Apple v IBM
• Software incompatibility, ditto.
• Cable incompatibility CAT 5 v CAT 5e/ 6
• Infrastructure upgrades required in (almost) all
  rooms
  
• Wireless network instability.
• Outdated peripherals.
• Limited budget.

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Strategic Objectives.

• Trouble shoot pressing ICT issues.
• Develop technical understanding and expertise of
  the curriculum network.
  
• Investigate finance, budget and resources.
• Prioritise short, medium and long term
  objectives.
  
• Re-establish a stable curriculum network.
• Plan for the future.

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Short Term Troubleshooting

• the urgent drives out the important the future
  goes largely unexplored
  
• Brent Davies.

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Medium Term Planning

• 2007 Computer Applications A Z
• Title VELS application Year/ Unit
  Level O/System
  
• Carmen Sandiego Middle/
  Upper Win/ Mac
  
• Lets Go Shopping 3
  Numeracy Junior Win / Mac
  
• Know More Words Literacy
  Junior Win
  
• Inside Story 3 Little Pigs
  Literacy Junior Win / Mac
  
• Micro Worlds Version 2 Numeracy
  Prep 6 Win / Mac
  

140 titles, 20 IBM compatible
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Thinking Strategically.

• school leadership must be futures orientated and
  strategically driven
  
• Brent Davies.

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Future Planning.
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Draft ICT Planner 2007
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Futures Planning.

• Hardware
• Learning Technology Plans for computer hardware
  are cyclic over a three to five year period.
  Current hardware would begin to be phased out
  starting 2009 Carlton North has some 70 plus
  classroom, library and other IBM compatibles
  available to students, suggesting 20 to 25
  replacement systems required in 2009, 2010,
  20011and 2012. Equipment may be leased,
  purchased or parts sources and hardware built.

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Futures Planning.

• Stage One Network Upgrade. Estimated Cost
  6000.
  
• 2008 Stage One. Library and Unit 4, Rooms 9, 10
  and 11.
  
• Upgrade existing power points, reposition
  switches and re-cable CAT 5e or better with
  shielded conduit to Year 5/ 6 classrooms (12
  computers) and Library (14 2 computers). Local
  technician to complete data cabling works.

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Futures Planning.

• Curriculum Server Upgrade. Estimated Cost
  1750.
  
• Addition of curriculum server hard drive upgrade
  to provide space for increased multimedia student
  use and create revised file, drive and intra
  school email provision.
• Addition of an Network Attached Storage device
  (APs Office) as a curriculum server backup and
  increase server hard drive space.

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Futures Planning.

• Wireless Upgrade. Estimated Cost unknown
  approximately 1000.
  
• The existing wireless network is at times
  unreliable. Approximate costs to upgrade are
  difficult to cost but will take additional
  technical time.

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Futures Planning.

• Multimedia Hard Drives. Estimated Cost 3000.
• The addition of two higher specification
  multimedia workstations one with dual graphics to
  the library pod would assist multimedia, CD and
  DVD presentations and copying.

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Futures Planning.

• Plasma Multimedia Display. Estimated Cost
  1000.
  
• The completion of portable multimedia plasma
  display unit including a platform, Hard Drive,
  wireless keyboard and speakers will allow this
  unit to network and display school wide without
  the need of a notebook.

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Futures Planning.

• Software. Estimated Cost 2500.
• Consolidation of software through ICT budget to
  strategically prioritise Literacy, Numeracy,
  Problem Solving, Higher Order Thinking Skills and
  Middle Years of Schooling through software and
  site licence such as Inspiration, Know more
  words, First 100 words, Robotics, and to meet
  Technical Software and Licensing requirements,
  for example Ghost, Nero, Vegas, Stop Motion Pro.

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Futures Planning.

• Technical Support.
• Estimated Cost 10 000.
• Additional local technical support from 5 hours
  per week to 10 hours per week to support a
  Learning Technology Plan.
  
• Consumables..

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Futures Planning.

• 2008 PROGRAM BUDGET
• Learning Technologies - ICT Maintenance
• Hardware
• Computer hardware.86404 5500
• Software. 86105
  2500
  
• Maintenance Stage One Power data
• cabling86402
  6000
  

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Major Learning.

• See the future.
• Share the vision.
• Build a bridge so that others may see.
• Institute a no fail first step.
• Construct the plans for success.
• Institutionalise success.

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THE SIGMOID CURVE
Continuos / sustained school improvement
A
B
Handy, 1994 p51
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ICT Strategic Vision.

• Success can be seen in how children achieve both
  academically, socially, spiritually, physically
  and emotionally, it is children being all they
  can be.
• Brent Davies.