Year 1 Goals

District Benchmarks

School Benchmarks

Teacher Benchmarks

 

Familiarity with laptop

Laptop training

Staff Developer on-site support

Use laptop every day for e-mail, record keeping and instruction

Familiarity with Projector

Projector

Technical on-site support

Use projector when appropriate

Education on  using technology to support instruction

Technology Integration Training

Technology mentors

Create one e-Lesson per unit of study

Free resources for teachers

Training on free resources

Media Specialist on-site support

Incorporate free resources in e-Lesson

Subscription resources for teachers

Curriculum Pathways

Nettrekker

eGuidance Center

Atomic Learning

 

Staff Developer on-site support

Use subscription resources in e-Lesson preparation

Education on Internet Safety, Copyright, Media Literacy

Training on Internet Safety, Copyright, Media Literacy

Media Specialist on-site support

Instill awareness of safe-surfing in students.  Observe rules for copyright

Education on passing assignments and tests between students and teachers, calendar reminders

Training on E-mail, Network folders, Word Templates

Technology mentors

Create student e-mail distribution lists, correspond with students using e-mail, pass e-lesson assignments using preferred method of e-mail or network folders

Education on student multimedia production for projects

Peripherals for Multimedia, training on Powerpoint, Dreamweaver, Windows Movie Maker II

Curriculum applications

Media Specialist checkout equipment, technology mentors and Staff Developers collaborate

Require one multimedia project from students for each course taught

Research on-line course creation software

Form committee to select on-line course creation software

Committee members

Communicate wants and needs

Create eLearning student advisory committee (eLearning project students, STLP students)

 Identify issues that would benefit from student input

Designate a faculty sponsor 

Hold regular meetings

Teach students how to manage printers using IBM Access Connections

 Create "how-to" document

eTeam becomes faculty trainer 

Pass information along to students about

Year 2 Goals

District Benchmarks

School Benchmarks

Teacher Benchmarks

 

Continue Year 1 goals

Continue Year 1 goals

Continue Year 1 goals

Continue Year 1 goals

Increase Content Specific Technology Integration

Content Specific Technology Integration Training

Departments Purchase site licenses for software by departments

Develop additional e-lesson per unit

Provide web storage for student projects

(share Novell server to web)

Web server for student work capable of streaming video

 Designate a web master for faculty questions

Utilize web server in at least one class

Extend home/school exchange of data

Provide access to school data from homes

 Create web directories for students

Instruct students on how to save documents etc. to the server and retrieve them at home 

Pilot on-line class creation for shared classes between the high schools

 Create a "Moodle" server

 Designate a "Moodle" master for faculty questions

eTeam utilize Moodle server in at least one class

Increase peripherals for student projects

 Provide  training on the use of cameras, scanner, projectors

 Provide funds for purchase of peripherals

 Attend peripheral training

Find affordable ($10/mo) high-speed home access for students and teachers

 

Work with Adelphia and OMU, Kenergy to route all DCPS machine traffic through DCPS pipe for reduced rates (would be feasible to do STI at home)

 None

 None

Train students on OneNote

 Equip laptops with OneNote

 eTeam becomes proficient in OneNote

 Allow students to take notes in every class using OneNote

Create "PointCast" type delivery of announcements and network sign-on

 Find a technical solution for this service

 Provide content (daily announcements etc.)

 None

Increase Bandwidth Measure impact of laptops
Request increased Bandwidth from State
Monitor and block unacceptable use of bandwidth Teach students to be responsible cybercitizens

Year 3 Goals

District Benchmarks

School Benchmarks

Teacher Benchmarks

 

Continue Year 1 & 2 goals

Continue Year 1& 2 goals

Continue Year 1 & 2 goals

Continue Year 1 & 2 goals

Work on county-wide wireless access from homes

 Solicit funding and  partners such as Adelphia, OMU, BellSouth

 Make parents aware of the benefits of of WiMax to promote community support

 eTeam to facilitate faculty to go wireless at home

Teachers conduct discussions on-line as part of homework

 Moodle discussion board enabled

 Conduct at least one faculty meeting through Moodle

 Participate in a Moodle discussion

Long-term homebound & IHC students be able to watch class at home/IHC via web-cam (one-way) Use IM to communicate (VOIP for sound?)

 Investigate cheap technology solution for video broadcast from classrooms to In-House Suspension program and homebound student's homes

 Identify highly technical teachers with homebound or suspended students to test the system

Be open to having the activities in their classroom broadcast over the web

Implement Internet 2

 Collaborate with KDE on piloting an Internet 2 district

 Identify instructional applications that would benefit from Internet 2

 Use Internet 2 capabilities