My Sabbatical Timeline

As August 18 approaches and the official start of my sabbatical, I thought those reading this blog might be interested in what I hope to accomplish (at a minimum). I expect that given the changes that we have seen in the cell phone market regarding applications, much new material will be added and the project will grow.

Stayed tuned… much more to come.

Sabbatical Timeline

• Sabbatical Setup (August 2008)
  
  • Select blog site with RSS support
    
  • Enable web site location
    
  • Plan web site design
    
• Documentation and Findings (August – December 2008)
  
  • Weekly Blog updates
    
  • Weekly Web site updates from Blog and Development
    
• Phase One (August –October 2008)
  
  • Research and Planning
    
    • Survey electronic resources (small screen technology)
      
    • Survey print resources (small screen technology)
      
    • Search for conference workshop opportunities (small screen technology)
      
    • Research mobile style topics with Cascading Style Sheets
      
    • Research Opera small screen rendering support
      
  • Design
    
    • Select best of breed technologies for 5 case studies
      
    • Determine if additional tools need to be developed
      
  • Development
    
    • Create five working examples of small screen technology
      
    • Development of software tools (if necessary)
      
    • Enable examples on Sabbatical Web Site
      
• Phase Two (October – December 2008)
  
  • Research and Planning
    
    • Survey small screen technology futures
      
    • Meet with personal wireless device vendors in Phoenix area
      
    • Search for conference workshop opportunities (small screen technology)
      
  • Design
    
    • Design five future feasible small screen technologies research with vendors
      
    • Describe the design development for web content five years out
      
  • Development
    
    • Create five working examples of future small screen technology
      
    • Document five futures examples on Sabbatical Web Site
      
• Wrap up (December 2008)
  
  • Finalize documentation on Web site
    
  • Setup of web site discussion forum
    
  • Prepare PowerPoint presentation for web site and interested parties
    
  • Sabbatical final report
    

Expected Outcomes

My hope is that the culmination of this sabbatical will create a dialog across the district on how to effectively use personal wireless device technology for teaching and learning. The benefit will be to both students and faculty. Any software tools I can develop will only help adoption and use of personal wireless devices.