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Title: DIDA Unit 1 Planning 2


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DIDA Unit 1Planning (2)
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Objectives
  • To understand the need to plan
  • To be aware of the benefits of a Gantt chart
  • To understand the necessary Excel skills needed
    to create a Gantt chart
  • To have started your SPB plan

Back
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Two volunteers
  • Presentations
  • Fail to Plan Plan to Fail
  • Did they plan the new college construction?
  • Do you have a life plan?
  • Planning is no guarantee of success arctic
    exploration, rowing the Pacific
  • A plan is an initial idea it will change over
    time e.g. the design of the college changed
    during construction

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Gantt charts
  • A plan should laid out in an easily
    understandable, concise way
  • You could do a list, a mind map, etc.
  • Professional organisations use a Gantt Chart
  • Example
  • What information will you need?
  • Lessons
  • Tasks / sub-tasks
  • How long each will take

5
Excel skills needed
  • Row heights and column widths
  • Fill cell
  • Font colours
  • Align cells direction, wrap
  • Merge cells
  • Borders
  • Comments
  • Group and Outline (optional)

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Start your plan
  • You should have a diary of when you did what last
    year
  • There is a spreadsheet of lesson dates on the
    college web site
  • The list of tasks and sub-tasks are in the SPB
    0907

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Plenary
  • What could go wrong with our plans?
  • Missed lessons
  • Tasks taking longer than you planned
  • Extra versions of documents
  • Time needed to learn skills
  • Not working hard enough!
  • Not checking your plan and monitoring your
    progress
  • Update you diaries
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