My department

I think I need to set up my department so that we have:

• Curriculum direction
• ICT professional development direction
• IT support direction

I need to look at curriculum direction in the school and analyse what works for them, what is working for us, where do we want to be and how can we get there.

With ICT professional development I need to look for a model that will work in our environment. Do I look for a model that has worked at the school, look for one that is popular, or look wider a field. Some articles I want to look at are the papers published at the ACEC2006 conference and also the Ryan Daniels article has some interesting directions.

I think I need to start small scale and build momentum. This will suit my personality, help build my profile, confidence in myself peoples confidence in me and let me learn lessons on the way that won't impact badly on a large number of people.

I think IT support goes hand in hand with ICT professional development. If people can not use and feel confident that the technology will work then they won't use it. We need to build a safe, secure, reliable and usable infrastructure. Build it and they will come.