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The focus of **Technology Facilitation Standard VIII,** Leadership and Vision, is to deals with the development and implementation of a campus or district vision. Furthermore, technology leaders build communities that shares and supports the moving forward of a common vision. In other words, they help form alliances (Williamson & Redish, 2009).

Many of our readings and lectures have mentioned the importance of a shared vision. In it’s own way, the web development course taught us how to form alliances with several groups. For example, we were asked to write a memo to Drupal asking them for their services in effort to provide modern technology tools to our students. By forming such and alliance, our vision of launching a campus website can become a reality for our teachers, students, and campus stakeholders. Additionally, by allowing others to jointly manage a web page, another alliance is formed who’s primary goal, creating and or maintaining a website, helps move the campus toward the common vision. Performance task C.1 of Standard VIII “…Focuses on building collaborations, alliances and partnerships involving educational technology initiatives (Williamson et al., 2009). The process of building a web page that I experienced briefly in the web development course required a formation of many alliances in order to launch and maintain a successful website.

This year we lost our Webmaster, after only having her for one year. After she left, the stagnant website she was trying to restructure, was forgotten. At the time I didn’t know what I do now about building and maintaining a website. However now that I do, I’m concerned about the strength of the alliances. Obviously, it takes a strong alliance not to be affected by the loss of a member. So, how do I build a strong alliance that can survive continuous change? Also, can an alliance survive a loss of a major member, such as a Webmaster? What procedures should be in place to help a team recover from such changes? Who is responsible? Is there, and should there be a chain of command? Obviously, I still have much to learn.

Resource Cited:

Williamson, J. & Redish, T. (2009). //Technology Facilitation and Leadership Standards: What every K-12 leader should know and be able to do.// Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.