Agenda: Week 8

ET 680 The Role of the Technology Leader

• Announcements and Questions
  • Thanks to Rachel for bringing snacks
  • Pumpkin Contest Winners
  • Mine was Balloon Boy (was I the only one that looked at the ballon and immediately thought it looked like a pumpkin wrapped in foil?)
  • Balloon Boy won Most Original
  • The Steelers pumpkin won 3 of the 4 remaining categories
  • Assignment Schedule
  • Acceptable Use Mini-Paper Due Tonight
  • Software Piracy Mini-Paper Due In Two Classes
  • Technology Planning Paper Is Due in Three Classes
    • Given all the discussions about planning, you should be ready to write this paper
    • You must refer to your Stakeholders Mini-Paper
    • You may refer to other mini-papers that touch on important issues
  • Technology Funding Paper Is Due in Five Classes
  • Guest Speakers
    • None tonight
    • Grant writing next time (room 01)
    • Internships the rest of the semester
  • Questions
• Educational Technology Organizations
  • International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
    • ISTE National Educational Technology Standards Project
  • Association for Educational Communications and Technology
  • Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
  • MICCA (used to be Maryland Instructional Computer Coordinators Association)
• The EdTech Listserv
  • Accessing
    • Searchable archive through Google: http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.edtech
    • Home page with subscription information: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/
  • Are you on it?
  • What issues are discussed? 
• Information to Share: Tracking Hardware and Software
  • How does your school keep track of hardware
    • Does anyone know what hardware you have and where it is
  • How does your school keep track of software
    • Physical disks
    • Number of legal copies
    • Where copies are installed
• Discussion
  • What should you do to keep track of hardware and software
  • What must you do to keep track of software (Business Software Alliance)
  • Los Angeles School District Piracy Problems (see New York Times article)
• Information to Share: Technology Staff Development Plans
• Grants
  • Introduction to Grant Writing
    • Notes about Grant Writing
  • Resources for Grants
    • eSchool News Funding Center
    • Obtaining Resources for Technology in Education by Dave Moursund
• Technology Coordinator Job Description (Frazier and Bailey, Chapter 1)
• Data Protection
  • Personal Backups
  • School-Wide Backups
  • Server Backups
  • Power Strips, Surge Protectors, and UPSs
    • What You Need To Know About Power Protection from IT World (http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2876/ITW_2001-02-27_power/)
    • TidBits Article About Protecting Your Server
      • Part 1 (http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-439.html#lnk4)
      • Part 2 (http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-440.html#lnk3)
• Discussion: What Is Your Role (as technology leader) in Plagiarism (see handout)
  • Read handout
  • The principal has asked The Technology Committee to create an information packet for teachers about plagiarism (including Internet plagiarism)
  • We cannot change the school board
  • The principal has informed us that teachers are not totally blameless, especially when it comes to educating their students about what is and is not acceptable
  • We need to advise teachers as to what they can do to
    • stop plagiarism
    • not draw the wrath of the School Board while doing it
  • Resources
    • http://turnitin.com/
    • http://www.google.com/
• Assignments
  • Come prepared with an idea for a project you might want a grant to support
  • Information to Share: Technology Grants (including but not limited to E-Rate)
  • Information to Share: Administrative Applications and Systems
  • Read Frazier and Bailey, Chapter 5
    • Keeping in mind our discussions from class about administrator's and administrative support personnel's positions on the Tech Committee
  • Peruse Obtaining Resources for Technology in Education, Chapters 1-7
  • Snacks Next Time: Kristin

This page was prepared by Dr. David M. Marcovitz.

Last Updated: November 4, 2009