School District Tech Planning Workshop

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School District Tech Planning Workshop

• Dr. Cathy Higgins
• Office of Educational Technology, NHDOE
• Spring 2008

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Agenda

• Reasons
• Approval Process
• Tech Planning Guide
• Approval Rubric
• Common Pitfalls
• Examples
• Discussion and Future Trends
• Work Groups

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Reasons

• Federal funding from NCLB Title IID (Enhancing
  Education Through Technology)
• E-Rate Funding
• Local budgeting and long term planning
• Other reasons?

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Approval Process

• Complete your tech plan revisions.
• Send email with plan attached as a WORD document
  to NHDOE Office of Ed Tech (chiggins_at_ed.state.nh.u
  s)
• Preferred scenario
• Plan is reviewed and scored (see rubric).
• Email query to district if questions.
• Approval letter sent and status list updated.
• Quick review scenario
• Plan is reviewed / checked against essentials.
• Email query to district if questions.
• Approval letter sent and status list updated.

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Tech Planning Guide

• Guidelines for structure and contents of your
  plan
• Tech plan approval status list
• Approval rubric
• Links to sections of applicable state standards
• Links to NH tech plan examples
• Needs another update!
• www.nheon.org/oet/tpguide

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Approval Rubric

• ER means E-Rate requirement
• Rubric includes references to NH school approval
  standards
• Rubric scores not significant but
• Acceptable score for ER items is essential!
• Rubric being revised this year to remove
  commendable category and scores. Criteria levels
  will be either acceptable or needs revision.
  Commendable items will still appear as info for
  plan improvement. This simplifies process and
  time factor for approval.

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Common Pitfalls

• 3-year categorized budget 3-year approval
• Attach your policies to your plan
• Make sure you have a tech committee
• Make sure committee meets periodically to
  evaluate progress toward meeting the goals of the
  plan.
• See www.neirtec.org/evaluation for an excellent
  collaborative evaluation guide.

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Example

• See Tech Plan Guide for links to plan examples.
• Ashland 2005-08 Plan
• Clear goals
• Clear what they do for PD
• Budget is short but clearly identifies categories
• Policies attached
• Filtering included
• Plan for tech integration is fairly descriptive
• Evaluation is ongoing and specific data points
  are referenced

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Discussion Future Trends

• Whats possible?
• Statewide E-Rate Consortium
• Other buying consortiums
• eLearning
• students - www.vlacs.org
• teachers - www.opennh.org
• Cost Worksheet (see Budget section of TP Guide
  update with current in process)
• 11 Laptop Initiatives
• Mobile Laptop Carts
• Web 2.0
• Handhelds, cell phones, simulations (games)
• PD through Tech Leader programs
• Thinkfinity, Internet Safety, PBL, eLearning
• PD Centers professional organizations