{"id":163,"date":"2013-07-20T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shisandy\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-07-21T23:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:01:24","slug":"module-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/shisandy\/2013\/07\/20\/module-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Module 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project Challenges<\/span><\/p>\n

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.<\/em> – Alfred North Whitehead<\/p>\n

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\n“Ideas Won’t Keep”<\/a> by Brad MacDuff<\/p>\n

Having the best idea, but not following through with actions, is equivalent to having no idea in the first place.\u00a0 Terrence and I have spent a large amount of effort and time creating our website and realizing our idea, but our work isn\u2019t complete.\u00a0 We need TOCs to buy into our idea, that this is a valuable endeavour.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it will take too much convincing that it fills a need for ICT knowledge in our current TOC system.\u00a0 But in my opinion, our major obstacles are to get the TOCs onto our website and to get them to contribute to the ICT database.\u00a0 Currently our database is empty and will remain empty until we get more responses to our survey.\u00a0 In the beginning stages, I will be the main database contributor, but hopefully as more TOCs become aware of the website, the database will grow.\u00a0 It is crucial to get more TOCs involved and using the website.\u00a0 If it doesn\u2019t get used, what would have been the point of it all?<\/p>\n

Letting people know…
\nIn my last blog I listed a few ideas that we can use to inform TOCs about our website.\u00a0 We thought of using the TOC committee in our districts to assist us in circulating our website around through the community.\u00a0 But upon reflection from my own experience, I\u2019m not sure that one of our suggestions will truly reach our target audience.\u00a0 One idea was to email the TOCs through our district wide email, but not all TOCs have a district email.\u00a0 When I first started TOCing in the district, I had to contact the head office to get a district login and email.\u00a0 If we send out a district wide email, those TOCs without district logins will not be receiving our email.\u00a0 I think this issue should be brought forth to the district head office, possibly with the HR department.\u00a0 District logins and email addresses should be discussed in the TOC orientation.\u00a0 Furthermore, if a TOC is unable to log into the district server, that hinders his\/her access to the ICT in the classroom.\u00a0 You won\u2019t be able to use the teacher computer, classroom computer or wifi, which are the most common ICTs found in the classroom.\u00a0\u00a0 Even if the TOC had an amazing lesson using ICT, without access he\/she wouldn\u2019t be able to use it in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the first thing to tell a TOC who wants to integrate ICT meaningfully into their temporary class….get a district login!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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