April+27+notes+and+assignments


 * ​April 27, 2010 ( ** if you have not self assigned to a group, please add your name to the end of a group -- you will develop further questions and begin working on how to answer these as well as plan how this part of the report will take shape)

** Technology uses: Literacy, Integrative, Transformative (keep this in mind as we plan for what students will need) **

**Infrastructure:** roadmap to backbone, school to school, who is VOIP, who is wireless, equipment inventory, priorities **(Ian, Ragen)**

Questions: 1. What does the revision cycle look like for infrastructure? And hardware? 2. Firewall, spam filter, and customization of firewall -- what is the solution? Access issues -- E86 will resolve? How do we customize our firewall? (the filter and the firewall is one box) How much does the firewall cost? 3. How is the infrastructure inside each school different? What does this allow us to do/prevent us from doing? Which schools have VOIP? Fiber to each school. Switches in each school is differently dated - what is the upgrade plan for equipment in each building? 4. Who makes the platform decisions? Is it out of the realm of the tech department? Why can't we have two platforms? 5. How many technicians are needed to support our school district with the number of machines -- to properly maintain the infrastructure? 6. How do other school systems our size address the daily school tech issues? 7. Who determines access to any admin software with student information? 8. What is our bandwidth capability/what are the limitations? What do we need to support Web 2.0? 9. Does the district mandate the use of admin software? 10. What Web 2.0 tools can we support? 11. What is centralized? What is deceatralized? Data, software, backups? 12. Do we have a diseaster recovery program? 13. What do we support on our district? What is standardized...printers, pen drives? 14. Do we have the capacity to allow an employee approved technology on the network? Should there be an annual access fee? Where do the funds go? 15. What is our ability to self monitor? 16. Can outside vendors have access to our machines to provide support? 17. What is the policy/protocol for allowing vendors access to the network? 18. What is the Taunton vision for 1:1 tech as driven by the state? 19. Can we have the Unicom drawings with the present documentation of routers/drops/hardware?

**Organization:** help desk procedures, job descriptions, building level tech, web presence, tracking, policy (image design, access) **(David, Ragen)** 1. What is our AUP? What is Fair Use? How is it overseen? 2. What is the separation of responsibilities (TV, Phones, Copiers, Infrastructure, Help Desk, PD...) Do we have the skillset for the needs? 3. Do we have current job descriptons for the current positions or responsibilities? 4. What is our annual tech budget? What does that include? 5. How much do we get via erate/grants? 6. What are the tech services available in schools? 7. Who should have complete access at each building? 8. What does FERPA mean when we are on the public domain? What is the electronic security of information? Where is the PD for these issues? 9. What is the role of the tech director? 10. What is the tech plan deadline?

**Operations**: backup plans for mgt., libraries, and staff, how do we handle mission critical data?, who provides updates, are updates manual or automatic, what is our security, help desk, online registration, staff/student attendance, refresh policy, priorities of new tech and repairs **(Paul, Jill, Ragen)**

1. What does a help desk look like? How are we tracking effectiveness? 2. What is our backup system for backup and data? What is the retrieval? What is the practice? 3. Is there a schedule of updates? Microsoft, Adobe, Java, 4. Is there a method for updates? 5. Who manages the updates? 6. What are/who decides the priorities for repairs?

7. Who will train/when will we implement student registrations for high school schedules/K registrations. 8. What is the recycle policy for hardware? 9. What is the recycle policy for software? 10. What is mission critical data? What is the hierarchy? 11. What is public data? 12. What are our policies? When was the last policy review? 13. What is our security? Anit-virus? 14. As an enduser are there different levels of access? 15. Can we provide different levels of tech support privilidges for each building? 16. When will the district invest in a system where teachers have greater access to internet? 17. Do we have a way to track hardware and consumables and can it be automated (barcoded)? How do we track use per building for consumables? Who manages?


 * Curriculum/PD/Mgt**.: who, long term plan, how do students/staff use technology, scope and sequence **(Valerie, Bill, Anne M., Ragen)**

1. Who is teaching ethical use of I'net? 2. What software does each level/department feel is most beneficial for them? (question to district teachers) 3. Who is in charge of district level software purchases? 4. What is the process of recommending and reviewing software? 5. Do we train new staff? 6. Is there continual PD for staff? 7. When will the curriculum be revised? How will it be integrated into all departments? 8. What is the support for teachers for integrating tech in the classroom? 9. Who are our district trainers?

5/3/10

Assistive Technology Universal Design