I like your list, Dave.

One thing that I would add is to work diligently to develop relationships with district technology leaders. I know that for me, many of my greatest frustrations/failures when it comes to digital projects in my classroom start and end with tech glitches that:

(a.) could have been solved if I had bounced ideas off of district specialists ahead of time.

(b.) I would have known weren’t going to work if I’d spoken with the district tech gatekeepers from the beginning.

All too often, district technology specialists aren’t teachers, so they don’t know exactly what it is that we’re trying to do with new tools in the classroom. If we could explain the pedagogy behind our ideas, they could help to facilitate access to the digital resources necessary for our projects.

And all too often, teachers don’t recognize the complexity involved in managing system wide resources and computer networks or in following school board and state level policies designed to keep kids safe. We come up with great ideas that are just impossible given the digital or policy realities of the systems that we work in.

A bit of relationship building between those responsible for teaching and those responsible for managing and supporting teachers would go a long way towards heading off digital nightmares.

Any of this make sense?
Bill
@plugusin