Relationship, Relationship, Relationship

As I viewed a short video titled "First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy" (https://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ), the confidence of one man gained the interest of others to follow suit. 

When thinking of my role as a tech leader/facilitator, communication and observation is key. Being able to watch, listen, and learn what the instructor or institution requires, helps facilitators to identify what is the problem or speed bump which allows them to figure out possible ways to help narrow the learning gap.

As the subject content is new to me, I am going through the LMS system to learn the information and review the setup to see where some refinement can be made to the program. Reviewing the details and following through on the homework gives me a better idea of what the facilitators will be teaching the students and will help with empowering the facilitators to take risk in their teaching style.

Because the staff is not in a central location and we are all remote, building the relationship has been difficult. Most correspondences are done on a Facebook site and email at present.

Interaction for the empowerment of facilitators to take risk has not occurred at this time. Training will begin soon and I will be able to develop a better relationship with the program team. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Powerful Learning, Powerful Leadership: Less is More

 When creating a technology plan as a leader, especially for the very first time, our excitement can have us go over board with our plans to help educators and learners. Many of whom do not have much time to read a long instructional guide for a new software program or new device. After reviewing chapter 10 of George Cuoros book The Innovator's Mindset  and listening to Dan Pink's mindset, I find myself reviewing my plans as a technology leader to make sure that the plans provide the information required in a simple form for all educator's and learner's.  Mental Health is a broad subject and being able to narrow down which subject create a training for can be difficult. I am narrowing my choices for these lessons by conferring with mental health experts to find out which topic would be most beneficial to parents and the young adults searching for information on mental health. Keeping the information to what needs to be taught and offering exercises or chances for the ed...
Read more

Technology Facilitator

Image
  Here is my version of Bill Ferriter Style As I reviewed what a technology facilitator should look like, I thought about the idea of innovation. Innovation is the creation of a new thought or machine to fulfill a need or want. Although innovation does not come from repeating the same process, innovation can appear while doing the process repetitively.  Like the inventor of the jigsaw who was looking for a better way of sawing wood.  For technology facilitator, innovation comes from studying the process and searching for ways to improve or develop another effective way of communicating the same information with the use of technology.  In the above image, I described how the facilitator works and who or what is helped by their actions.  The facilitators' job is to listen to their audience. In this case, the audience are administrators, teachers, and students. After which they will evaluate the process to see where improvements can be made. Then discuss or report ...
Read more

ISDT 5369

 Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. My name is Thu Pham and I am a graduate student at Sam Houston State University. Although I am not in an educational institution any more, I find myself always training or teaching someone.  If I were to pick a quote that fits my philosophy on teaching and technology, that quote would be: "The most important thing that schools can do is not to use technology in the curriculum more, but to use it more effectively."- John G Palfrey and Urs Gasser
Read more