Educational Project Management

All,

We will meet Thursday 1/21 @ 2pm. Our tentative location is 320 Huntington Hall. This meeting will mainly be organizational in nature. If you cannot attend it's okay, but please make every effort to ensure you have the information distributed at the meeting. Project groups will be announced at this meeting.

If you have not done so already, please do the following before tomorrow. I will assign groups based on who has created a Google Groups account and logged into the class wiki. If you cannot complete these tasks for some reason before Thursday 12 noon, please call or email me so I can make sure you are included in a group.

• If you haven't received an invitation to the IDE761 Wiki, or you would like to register with a different email address than the one on record at Syracuse University, please email me
• If you do not have one already, create a Twitter account. After creating your account (or with your existing account) follow  our course Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/ide761_pm);
• If you haven't received an invitation to the IDE761 Google Group, please go to http://groups.google.com/group/ide761 and apply for membership.
• Go to https://acrobat.com and create an account for yourself. This will allow you to view and edit course and team documents using a slick online word processor called Buzzword and utilize other online tools through Acrobat.com.

See you tomorrow and online!

Alan Foley
315-433-5260

We will not be using Blackboard this semester; however, a great deal of the course will be online and utilize a variety of collaboration and work-flow tools. These tools are freely available and excellent project management and collaboration tools.

Before classes begin on January 19, please complete the following tasks. This will ensure we're all ready to go when class begins.

1. If you haven't received an invitation to the IDE761 Wiki, or you would like to register with a different email address than the one on record at Syracuse University, please email Alan;
2. If you do not have one already, create a Twitter account. After creating your account (or with your existing account) follow  our course Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/ide761_pm);
3. If you haven't received an invitation to the IDE761 Google Group, please go to http://groups.google.com/group/ide761 and apply for membership.
4. Go to https://acrobat.com and create an account for yourself. This will allow you to view and edit course and team documents using a slick online word processor called Buzzword and utilize other online tools through Acrobat.com.
5. Purchase the course texts (links to the left). They are available at the Syracuse University bookstore or from the online bookseller of your choice.
6. Note your availability for an initial class meeting at http://bit.ly/6ROBB4

If you are interested in taking IDE 761 and have questions, please contact Alan Foley.

This course covers management tactics, skills, and procedures in planning and leading successful educational projects. We will explore project management theory, strategies, and techniques that are generalizable to any setting. The course will focus on the unique perspectives, roles and contexts (current and anticipated) of the class members, while simultaneously considering our common roles as change agents, leaders and educators. The class will be offered in hybrid format, with face-to-face, online, and hands-on activities. We will explore and utilize emerging project and process management tools and well as online collaboration tools.

Important Project Management Class Links

• Class Wiki (Login required)