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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Technology and Electronic Tools and Resources in Education and the
Non-Profit Worlds
As time passes, more and more of the tools and resources
that are used for instruction, productive work and self
directed learning, to name just some of what is done in
schools and in the workplace, are enhanced or enabled
by technological, computerized or electronic devices.
Personal computers, organizational computer mainframes,
cellular phones, personal digital assistants, scientific
calculators and many other devices dot the landscape of
ones learning or working day. Much can be lost in time
and in assets if these tools are provided without a plan for
their use and a coordination of their roles. Computers
do not solve problems. A computer with a good
software program correctly programmed for a task or
activity and used by people trained and instructed in the
use of this tool for the tasks at hand can do a great deal
to make a work role more organized, efficient and
productive. Without planning and coordination,
expensive electronic gagets may be bought that operate
in different networks and spheres in duplicative and
competing ways with loss of precious monetary
resources through inefficiency and redundancy.
As a result the organization without a technology plan
will experience the failure to actualize and maximize the
potential of which these technological automation devices
are capable when employed in concert with the best
orchestration possible.
The most recent NetAction Notes issue has some useful
information to share about planning for technology in
nonprofit organizations.
NetAction Notes
Published by NetAction Issue No. 92 April 24, 2003
<http://www.netaction.org/notes/notes92.html>
Online Tools for Technology Planning
In a nonprofit organization, technology planning
isn't just about deciding if it's time to replace your
computers or upgrade your software; it's about
connecting your technology needs to your
organization's mission. Typically, the steps involved
in preparing a comprehensive technology plan include
assessing your existing technology infrastructure,
determining your future technology needs, identifying
the available resources, and establishing a time line
for implementation. Ideally, this type of planning
process starts with a team that includes board
members as well as staff, and concludes with the
drafting of a written plan to guide implementation
and possibly also help your organization secure the
necessary funding to implement the plan.
<snip>
Online Technology Planning Tools and Resources:
Technology Literacy Benchmarks for Nonprofit
Organizations
This is one of the best all-around tools for assessing
an organization's tech-savvy as well as its existing
technology needs. Users rate their organization's
technology practices against "best practices"
benchmarks by responding to a series of questions.
One section deals specifically with best practices
benchmarks for technology planning, so users can
quickly see how they compare. The tool is available
as a downloadable PDF file at NPower or the
Benton Foundation.
This complete article may be read at the URL
above and below are some of the resources
for technology assessment activities that are
discussed in this article:
NPower Network Tools & Resources
<http://www.npower.org/tools/index.htm>
Resources:
The Benton Virtual Library
<http://www.benton.org/Library/home.html>
One NorthWest's Organizational Infrastructure
Download Assessment Forms
<http://www.onenw.org/bin/page.cfm?pageid=191>
TechSoup's Worksheets
<http://www.techsoup.org/articles.cfm?topicid=11&topic=Technology%20Planning&cg=nav&sg=content_topic11>
Featured Articles
The Planning Process: Assess Resources
The Planning Process: Define Your Needs
The Planning Process: Explore Solutions
The Planning Process: Write the Plan
Getting Help With Your Technology Plan
Technology Budgeting Basics
Following Through On Your Plan
Mission Based Technology Planning
Your Technology Team
Strategic Technology Planning
Strategic Technology's Courseware
<http://www.strategictechnology.net/>
Technology Planning Curriculum
Knowledge in Technology (KIT) Program
<http://nyfa.org/level3.asp?
id=161&fid=2&sid=36>
Art Wire's Budget Worksheet
<http://www.spiderschool.org/workshops/kit_
buffalo_01/elements/budgetworksheet.html>
In addition to the technology planning resources
for nonprofit and educational organizations covered
in the Net Action Alert, there are other useful places
to turn for valuable information, guidance and
resources for maximizing the clout of technology
implementation and use by organizations while keeping
technology costs under control.
There is an excellent collection of links for technology
planning tools and information on the Educational
Cyberplayground.
Develop The Technology Plan
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/techplan.html>
Another Educational Cyberplayground page has a useful
group of links related to using technological resources
that are designed to enhance staff development.
Staff Development Resources
Technology Integration and Staff Development Methods
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/staffdr.html>
Yet another Educational Cyberplayground page highlights
a number of exemplary educational technology
implementation success stories:
"can't miss" programs
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/miss.html>
A powerful resource for developing technology planning
skills is this web page on the Western Washington University
website:
The Technology Coordinator's Web Site
Planning for Technology Use
<http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~kenr/TCsite/plan.html>
Sections:
These three sections address issues that overlap considerably.
Resources that are listed in one section might also be helpful
for the other sections. You may want to browse in all three
sections for information that seems relevant to one.
The work of the technology coordinator
Planning for technology integration
Professional development for technology integration
The contents page of which the link immediately above leads
to a great deal of additional useful information sources regarding
these issues:
Contents Page
<http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~kenr/TCsite/contents.html>
Planning for technology use
The work of the technology coordinator
Planning for technology integration
Professional development for technology integration
Educational support resources
The library/media center
Assistive technology and special needs
Educational technology research
Administrative computing
Technology and education reform
Educational Management resources and issues
Grants and funding to support technology integration
Educational networking
Network installation and management
Internet issues
Distance education
Sources of educational technology information
Professional associations
Institutes & non-profit organizations
Publishers
Journals
Practitioner-oriented publications
Here are a number of additional useful
information source and resource link sites
related to Technology Planning:
Learner Resource Center: Nonprofit Web Sites
<http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/sites_technology.htm>
Planning for Technology Replacement; Is it Possible?
Mark R. Ritschard, Systems Integrator, Desktop
Team Leader
Eugene L. Spencer, Associate Director
ISR/Computer & Communication Services
Bucknell University
<http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/
cmr9933/cmr9933.html>
Tech Support Resources -- Eastern LINCS
<http://www.easternlincs.org/techsupport/>
Planning for Technology
<http://www.npowermichigan.org/handson/planning/>
How to make technology work for you.
The Smart Way to Invest in Computers
By Sandi Smith
<http://www.aicpa.org/pubs/jofa/may97/techno.htm>
[Although this article dates from 1997, It was published
by the AICPA organization which is in the accounting
field and provides, therefore, an interesting perspective
to this issue.]
Fundraising For Technology
Goal: Finding funding and other resources to support
your programmatic and operational uses of technology.
<http://www.civilrights.org/about/civilrights/
tech_assist/tb_fundraisingfortech.html>
Planning Today for Tomorrows Technology
By Eric Butterfield, Editor, School Construction News
<http://www.designshare.com/Research/
Meeks/MeeksTech1.htm>
Planning for Information Systems and Technology
at UC Berkeley, 1999-2003
Draft of April 16, 1999
<http://ist.berkeley.edu/Vision98/>
Technology: Journal of Law School Computing
Learning the Law | Teaching the Law |
Technology in Law Schools
Strategic Planning For Information Technology
Pablo G. Molina(1)*
<http://www.cali.org/jlsc/molina.html>
Planning for Technology Funding [.pdf]
<http://www.b-g.k12.ky.us/Tech/KETS/
PlanningForTechFunding.pdf>
Technology in the Classroom
<http://www.tenet.edu/profrec/technology.html>
Google Directory
Technology
Reference > Education > K through 12 > Technology
<http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/
Education/K_through_12/Technology/>
Technology Planning for Schools
An AskERIC InfoGuide
<http://www.askeric.org/Old_Askeric/InfoGuides/
alpha_list/TechPlan-schools4_98.html>
Curriculum and Learning Resources:
Organizations (31 entries)
<http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/bctf/topics/data.php3?
topic=3&resource=6>
SearchUK results for Technology
<http://www.searchuk.com/TOP/Reference/Education/
K_through_12/Technology/>
For those who prefer learning about high technology the
old fashioned way, here are some citations to print
publications (some of which may defeat our purpose
of learning the old fashioned way be being available
electronically as well) that are about aspects of
planning for technology.
Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology
(book review).
Author: Smole, Victor, reviewer.
Source: American Secondary Education
v. 31 no. 1 Fall 2002 p. 100-102
Educators and technology standards: influencing the
digital divide.
Authors: Swain, Colleen.; Pearson, Tamara.
Source: Journal of Research on Technology in Education
v. 34 no. 3 Spring 2002 p. 326-335
Challenges of electronic portfolios: student perceptions
and experiences.
Authors: Wright, Vivian H.; Stallworth, B. Joyce.;
Ray, Beverly.
Source: Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
v. 10 no. 1 2002 p. 49-61
Adopting educational technology: implications for
designing interventions.
Authors: Bowman, Joseph, Jr.; Newman, Dianna L.;
Masterson, JoAnn.
Source: Journal of Educational Computing Research
v. 25 no. 1 2001 p. 81-94
How to create and implement a technology training
program.
Author: Massis, Bruce E.
Source: American Libraries
v. 32 no. 9 October 2001 p. 49-51
Language learning on the World Wide Web:
an investigation of EFL learners' attitudes and
perceptions.
Author: Yang, Shu Ching.
Source: Journal of Educational Computing Research
v. 24 no. 2 2001 p. 155-181
About face! Technology planning upside down, inside out,
and standing on your head -- I have told many people that
planners should strive to include every conceivable idea
in their plans...
Author: Anderson, Larry S
Source: MultiMedia Schools
Year: 2001
Human Services Technology: Understanding, Designing,
and Implementing Computer and Internet Applications
in the Social Services
Author: Benbenishty, Rami
Source: Journal of Technology in Human Services
Year: 1999
Commentary on Information Technology and Planning
Author: Cackowski, Jean Marie
Source: Journal of Planning Literature
v. 17 no. 2 2002 p. 187-188
Learning at a distance: technology impacts on planning
education.
Author: Godschalk, David R., and Linda Lacey.
Source: Journal of Planning Literature
v. 16 no. 2 2001 p. 236-319
Implementing Virtual Reference: Hollywood Technology
in Real Life - Plenty of articles explain how reference
librarians learn to use chat reference systems. But this
one relates, from an administrative point of view, how
the first virtual reference project ever undertaken in a l
aw library went from idea to implementation.
These authors detail why and how they made their
choices.
Author: Balleste, Roy; Russell, Gordon
Source: Computers in libraries.
v. 23 no. 4 2003 p. 14
One major high technology manufacturing company
designed a search software and a computer database
system to track its projects and work activities some
decades ago so as to avoid different groups in the
corporation working independently on the same
research activities or projects without interaction
or knowledge of the duplicative research efforts.
That search software became the basis of a
major databank of databases that are publically
available as a commercial searching service.
Organizational acquistion of technology products
without a plan and without coordination may lead
to the kind of blending one hears when an
elementary school orchestra tunes. Coordination
of technology into a plan can be made to sound
like the performance of a major symphony
orchestra under the baton of a renowned
conductor.
Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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