Comment I am in the same boat... (Score 1) 96
...only, I am in charge of instructional technology (multimedia and such) for a 14-school district in South Carolina. My lot in life at the moment is to run around the district helping teachers to take United Streaming video clips and the like and integrate those into their instruction...anyway...
My suggestion is find ways to show what you want to do works with what you have on-hand. If it takes a lot of money up-front, forget about it for now. You need to show RESULTS with what you have now. If you want to go to Linux for some use, build a box of of crap laying around the office and make it work, and SHOW them what it can do! I also agree with another poster about selecting a few people to work with initially...chances are, you dont have the resources to make everybody happy anyway, so you figure out who is the best handful of people to model what you want to do, and help them, and they will show others. The secret to implementing change it to NOT change very much...at least as far as the end user goes. Again, find ways to DEMONSTRATE the advantages, and make sure there are hardly any downsides, at least at first. Anyway, I hope this is of some help.
My suggestion is find ways to show what you want to do works with what you have on-hand. If it takes a lot of money up-front, forget about it for now. You need to show RESULTS with what you have now. If you want to go to Linux for some use, build a box of of crap laying around the office and make it work, and SHOW them what it can do! I also agree with another poster about selecting a few people to work with initially...chances are, you dont have the resources to make everybody happy anyway, so you figure out who is the best handful of people to model what you want to do, and help them, and they will show others. The secret to implementing change it to NOT change very much...at least as far as the end user goes. Again, find ways to DEMONSTRATE the advantages, and make sure there are hardly any downsides, at least at first. Anyway, I hope this is of some help.
