Long term IT plan

Hi,

Thanks to all of you for your input on the draft of our report to the ELP on this topic.  At this point, I think the message that we should keep the amount and complexity of information given in the report to a minimum is clear. 

We have two basic proposals floating at the moment:

1. Owen: I think 12 months is long-term enough and I suggest we focus on 4 main things. These 4 things will be detailed in the report to the ELP. This document here is for C3 only and is built iteratively as our understanding of who we are and what we want to do develops over time. The 4 actions I recommend are: 1) Server space (@icu.ac.jp), 2) ELP Goffice (i.e free Education Edition of Google Office + Delicious), 3) Support for individual practice, & 4) new ELP Website (Wordpress-blog based). These four actions need to be undertaken in sequence (and then maintained simultaneously), the second requires the first, and so on. In the report to the ELP I recommend we try to show the 4 actions and how they connect visually, because these four actions represent a lot of very fundamental change to the work individuals do and how the ELP manages information. Careful planning is required. During and after implementation these 4 actions will require a lot of on-demand support to succeed. In other words, I think we should not underestimate the kind and scale of change that these 4 actions will produce.

2. Start with Google accounts and calendar function only and then gradually build toward more usage of other Google services and Web 2.0 tools..

As I see it, Owen's proposal would be largely invisible to the staff and would allow proposal #2 to be primarily what people would be aware of initially.  However, it does have some potentially significant issues attached to it, such as who would be assigned to do the set up, support and management of the server space and eventually the ELP Website. I am pretty ignorant of what is required along these lines, but if there is sufficient to be gained, I'm willing to give it a try.  I may be able to enlist Suzaki san's help if the work is not too technical.

Therefore, I propose a rather general and simple proposal for the ELP meeting. It would outline our recommendation to work toward gradually integrating Web 2.0 tools and services into the workings of the ELP, starting with use of Google Calendar along with a Google account for all ELP staff.  We can then work out whether this will be arranged through the separate server space and free educational version of the Google services, or through individually set up Google accounts if the server option proves to be too complicated for us to handle.

Your thoughts, gentlemen....?

Bill



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Bill Harshbarger, Director
English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
http://indirector.blogspot.com

--
Bill Harshbarger, Director
English Language Program
International Christian University
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi
Tokyo 181-8585
+ (81) 422-33-3219
billh@icu.ac.jp
http://indirector.blogspot.com
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