Where+do+we+start?

Where do we begin?


 * 1) Goals?
 * 2) Users?
 * 3) Hardware?
 * 4) Software?
 * 5) Data?
 * 6) Rules/procedures
 * 7) Timeline
 * 8) Promotion
 * 9) Curriculum

1. Clarifying our goal: What is the goal of St Pats?


 * To get the users (students) more involved in school
 * Engage them in their courses?
 * Engage them into the real world?
 * Use the latest IT to learn outside the classroom walls?
 * Communicate/learn outside the box
 * Promote St Pats?
 * To educate in a collaborative, instead of competitive setting using the latest technologies?
 * Encourage students to act on the world’s greatest challenges?

2. Who are the users and the stakeholders?


 * Students
 * Where do we begin?
 * Introduce a Grade 9 computer literacy course?
 * Use web 2.0 software, working collaboratively in the cloud computing arena?
 * parents
 * how do we communicate with parents?
 * Do they want their children in a new system of education, not streamlines, unstructured classroom without walls
 * …with open ended solutions, project based learning?
 * Board personnel:
 * as roadblocks
 * as experts
 * teachers
 * all teachers?
 * early adapters?
 * Young teachers?
 * Teachers who teach in courses that would cater to “Global Issues?
 * Who decides?
 * Volunteers?
 * Voting?
 * Interested teachers?
 * Interested teachers who present ideas, proposals etc?

3. Hardware: · Obviously we want computers that work half decently and access to the internet from every classroom.

4. Software tools:

What are the projects, only then can we know what tools to use/purchase, or download.

Start Small: Prototype.Think globally, act locally