Practicum - Technology Facilitation

 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...

       During this practicum, I continue to research and ask questions of professionals regarding the subject of mental health.    T he focus is on the main mission which is mental health awareness. What does that look like? Who are we targeting and how should we educate them?     An outreach through social media was started to begin to bring the childhood traumas to the forefront of the Vietnamese community's mind? Now what? This is the question the organization is asking itself and I have answered. We teach by using the website as a platform to help educate those who visit the site.     We begin by assessing what the person knows in regards to mental health and offering them immediate feedback on the question so that the learner can see the statistics or information on that topic.     The test assesses the learner's knowledge as well as offer the learner immediate feedback of  information regarding mental health to help ...

 In every project, my first instinct as a leader is to view all sides of the project. This includes the reason for the project or training, the people it serves, and the best ways to make the project or training successful. In my current practicum, I find myself developing a supportive leadership role.  I think for this particular project the leadership role leans toward the supportive role due to the subject matter. The training requires the assistance of mental health professionals to determine what subjects would be most helpful for the parents.  During this time, I am learning when to lead and when to pull back and allow others take the lead in the planning. During the first week of my practicum, I listened as my mentor and her team discuss plans on their next project. Then I viewed the website and mission statement.  My mentor and I met to discuss my plans based on the information I received from the meetings and organization website. I explained my suggestion a...