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31 Mar 08

Top News - CoSN conference offers blueprint for ed tech

Successful 21st-century education requires innovation, teamwork, and strong leadership, conference speakers say

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leadership management

  • 1. Know your own personal strengths and weaknesses, as well as your schools'.
    2. Say "yes" often--otherwise, educators and other leaders will be hesitant to come to you with another new idea. If you can't say "yes," then at least try to say "no, you can't do that, but try this instead."
    3. Plan for the ever-changing plan. "Right now, our newest plan is two weeks old, but it's been two days since I've checked ... it's probably changed already," said Brehm.
    4. Keep the larger vision in mind. For example, don't automatically think every child should have a laptop, because not only is this too expensive for most schools, but it will probably be replaced with a lightweight, cheap, handheld device, like a modified iPhone.
    5. Communicate a consistent message. Do this by sending newsletters or eMail messages to staff and colleagues to let them know you're still on course and still have an optimistic view of the situation.
    6. Offer effective and consistent IT support.
    7. Embrace your role as the change-maker. Understand that your role is not to keep what's already in place functioning, it's to make things even more efficient.
30 Mar 08

Internet Safety Information

This list is a collection of resources I've found concerning internet safety. My students will be creating a presentation to give to their parents on the teens-eye view of internet safety. Please feel free to leave any comments and/or suggestions.

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management teaching

28 Mar 08

Review of State and National Laptop Initiatives

Review of laptop initiative lesson

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1:1 management

  • Several laptop initiatives give their teachers laptop computers a semester or even a full year

    before their students so that the teachers can get comfortable with the capabilities of the

    computer and explore ways of integrating it into their curriculum. This practice could have

    eased the transition for the Howard faculty, many of whom stated that they had limited

    experience with computers and were very uncomfortable using them in the classroom.
  • Frequent parent night gatherings are critical to the program and keep the community informed. "Tech Time," a locally produced community access show, broadcasts iMovies and other student created projects to homes in the area. Parents and teachers note students are spending less time watching television and more time with sharing with their parents what they have learned using their laptops. Absences by students with laptops have declined by almost 40%.
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26 Mar 08

LHRIC > Inside Information > Outsourcing

Is Outsourcing a Good Idea for Instructional Technology?

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management outsourcing

  • If a computer teacher spends 75% of his time resolving
    technical issues for his building, it shows up as a "shadow cost"
    because his salary is budgeted from the teaching staff line. Computer
    aids may be spending 50% of their time on technical support issues
    but they are budgeted from the instructional support line and become
    "shadow costs". In some buildings it is not unusual to have teachers
    who have become technology gurus in their colleagues eyes spend
    20% of their time resolving technical issues for teachers in nearby
    classrooms.


    Before a district can fairly consider performing
    a cost analysis of outsourcing technology support, it must come
    to terms with the true cost of in-house support.

  • Before making outsourcing decisions, schools and
    businesses must ask the same question, "What are our core competencies?"
    For most schools these core competencies are not cable engineering,
    networking architecture, telecommunications engineering, systems
    integration, hardware repair, network engineering, and software
    development.
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Outsourcing: A Cost-Effective Alternative to the School Help Desk : September 2002 : THE Journal

  • Outsourcing presents many benefits to schools that have
    historically not been able to pay the going rate for qualified
    technical support. It can also bring a wealth of technological
    expertise at a fixed expense, which can easily be justified to
    administrators and school boards.



    The addition of a help desk staff is not always easily understood and
    accepted, especially by taxpayers who are more amenable to
    brick-and-mortar expenses or dollars spent to improve student-teacher
    ratios. Outsourcing can make a slice of the technology budget a
    fixed-cost item. This benefits those who submit and approve school
    budgets, as well as those who are attracted to line items that don't
    change.



    Outsourcing is also efficient. Help desk technicians are experienced
    in handling a variety of technical inquiries. A representative who
    deals with the same hardware inquiry several times a week will be
    more effective in resolving that issue than a school employee who
    deals with the problem once during a school term. Not having to
    troubleshoot day-to-day problems also frees school staff to
    concentrate on tasks of critical local importance.

When Outsourcing Didn’t Work, This School Canceled the Contract

When Outsourcing Didn’t Work, This School Canceled the Contract

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management outsourcing

  • TIP #1. Make sure your service provider really does understand the nuances of your environment -- especially those that affect service delivery.
  • TIP #2. If your organization is undergoing a major transformation, consider whether the service providers you’re working with will help or hinder the goals.
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25 Mar 08

1:1 Laptop Project lesson

  • Has been very little change in traditional pedagogy, despite the large intrusion of technology

  • Questions they are asking at Sedgwick High School:

    - does it really make a difference?

    - do students really want to come to school?

    - do teachers teach differently?

    - are students excited about learning?

    - does it help to install the love of lifelong learning?

    - does discipline go down?

    - do test scores and attendance go up?


    The answers are all YES

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