Personal Vision E Learning Session 6

1. What is your personal vision for how Google’s web-based tools can help improve collaboration and communication within your particular school community?  My vision is that SCS will use all the available resources to help make our jobs more effective and efficient.  I belive that Google's web-based tools can help make this vision a reality.  Improving communication between and among all stakeholders is a goal for most school communities. Implementation of some of these tools can be done with ease.  Beginning with a blog for all stakeholders as a tool for communication about reminders, updates, etc. will be a first step. Shared calendars with all faculty and staff will assist with planning and allow us to ensure that conflicts will be avoided. Using Google Docs to collaborate on documents that have to be updated annually will save much time and resources.  This can be done by all stake holders at their convenience. These three tools, blogs, calendar, and docs, will be the catalyst that will help us attain our vision for SCS and technology.
2. Which Google applications are you most likely to implement, and why? Blogs, calendar, and docs will be the first tools we implement school-wide because of the ease of implementation.
3. What lessons have you learned from reviewing how other administrators and schools are using Google Calendar, Docs, and Blogger?  While we will start using them mainly for communication, it is obvious from reading some of the other blogs that they can become a tool for professional development as well. Get started, but you don't have to do a daily blog which was great to learn.
4. How does your vision align with the “Visionary Leadership” standard as put forth in ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators? The key words in this standard are "inspire and lead'. We lead by example and our own use of the tools. We inspire some when they see us modeling and using the tools. We inspire others when they see us trying to be the "lead learner". Others are inspired because they are much better at technology and we use this expertise to showcase their leadership skills in technology.  Success breeds success. As we all become more successful in using these tools, we will all be inspired to lead others to a higher level of expertise.