Identify at least three topics, get feedback from your site mentor regarding the topics, and decide which direction to take.

I seem to be struggling identifying three topics. This might be because I am not in the classroom or located at a campus where options for problems might be resolved through action research. One topic maybe the same one I used for my discussion question last week. How technology, specifically software applications are improving or not improving the students ability to learn, raise scores, and create a positive return on technology investment. This is more curiosity, but I’m looking for something that falls in the line of thinking like a Directors of Technology. Second topic might research the benefit of having a call center. Our department wants to change how work orders are handled. There has been some resistance from key staff members, basically the ones who would be assigned to the call center. So the action research question is how does a ‘call center’ increase productivity and will customers benefit from the organizational change that would occur from implementing new model. And the third topic comes from this week’s chapter readings Passion #6 Leadership. What do I learn from comparing and contrasting my own perceptions, my department’s perceptions, my Director’s perceptions, and my leadership team’s perceptions about my own educational technology leadership as a future Director. When I first read this I was excited and thought I had my action research question. As I blog this, I am leaning towards number 3, but I still want to get a Director’s perspective on other possible topics.