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Don Ledingham

Sunday 18 December 2005

ICT SKUNKWORKS

This coming Tuesday we are planning to hold an ICT skunkworks. A wide range of people have been invited to attend. The outcome of the meeting will be to have agreed a draft three-year strategy to enable us to make best use of ICT in East Lothian schools. Members of the group have been provided with a copy of the ICT policy for East Lothian. Members of the group include - headteachers; teachers; corporate ICT team members; admin staff; pupils; SQA rep; SSDN rep; Principal teachers; Directorate.

ELC Education Aim – to improve children’s life chances

Outcomes of our practice:

Children - safe; engaged; successful

Staff - happy; fulfilled; valued

Families - informed; involved; supported

We wish children to become:

  • Responsible citizens
  • Effective contributors
  • Successful learners
  • Confident individuals

Our Challenge: to develop and sustain a high reliability ICT system which will enable us to fulfil our aims.

Guidelines for the day:

  1. No barriers
  2. Creativity – no bad ideas
  3. Feel free to disagree – suspension of politeness
  4. Build upon other people’s ideas
  5. Focus upon the result
  6. Key words to guide our practice - sustainability; reliability; consistency

Programme

1. Outline of our challenge: DL – 15 minutes

2. What are we trying to make? – focus on the concrete (ENGINE ROOM) (60 minutes)

3. Tip out what we’ve got on the table - what have we got at the moment (35 minutes)

4. How could we use this differently? – take what we’ve got and reconfigure (35 minutes)

5. How do we make it work (35 minutes)

6. What comes first? (35 minutes)

7. ???? - these sessions will emerge as the day progresses

8.???? - these sessions will emerge as the day progresses

9. ???? - these sessions will emerge as the day progresses

10. Project management Gantt chart – planning the future

 

Comments

ICT Strategy Wiki

Ewan McIntosh

Tuesday 20 December 2005

The ELC ICT Strategy wiki is up and running at <a href="http://elcict.wikispaces.com/">http://elcict.wikispaces.com/</a>. You can make changes and comments rightaway, and even edit the navigation to add other useful links.

If you want to join wikispaces, so that your name is left behind each change you make, then just sign up at <a href="http://www.wikispaces.com/user/join">http://www.wikispaces.com/user/join</a>.

ICT skunkworks

Don Ledingham

Tuesday 20 December 2005

I'll follow this up with a more detailed account of today's proceedings but could I take this opportunity to thank all those people who participated in what proved to be
an exceptional day.

What's IT Governance all about?

David Gilmour

Tuesday 20 December 2005

IT Governance on One Page, Weill and Ross, MIT Sloan School of Management Centre for Information Systems Research provides a much better explanation than I can of what this is and why it matters.

In summary: "IT governance is the decision rights and accountability framework for encouraging desirable behaviours in the use of IT"

http://web.mit.edu/cisr/working%20papers/cisrwp349.pdf (18 pages, 451KB, free download but register to agree copyright terms)

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