Michael Oldenkamp

Director of Technology and Information Services

Managing Technology in Education

Buy-in

Staffing

Budget

One-to-one environments

Virtual Environments

Topics

Establish Open Communication

Get users to believe in technology and support upgrades

Down-time

Upgrades

Establish A Technology Committee

Be open to communication yourself

Demonstrate new technologies and concepts

How these technologies will improve a person’s job

Get students involved

Buy-in

Students

Start technology club

Students are your eyes in the classroom

Documentation

Justification for requesting more help

Makes your job easier in the long run

Staffing

Do more with less funding

Budget

Emergencies are going to happen

Have backup plans/DR plan

Spare pieces of equipment

phased-out equipment

guaranteed contracted services

Budget

Planning/Documentation

Approved buffer zone in budget

3-5 year plan

Open-source software

Budget

Pros:

Lot of good alternatives

Generally good support

Cons:

Lack of Industry support

Some Products tied to one person

Open-Source Software

Filezilla

Firefox

7-Zip

TrueCrypt

FreeMind

GIMP

VLC Media Player

OpenOffice

MySQL

MyPHP

ANT Renamer

OpenVPN

Putty

Notepad++

Smoothwall

NCC Open-Source

Websites:http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-open-source-software/index.html

http://www.osalt.com/

http://opensourcewindows.org/

http://sourceforge.net/

Open-Source Software

Each student has one device

“Anytime Anywhere” learning

Devices:

Laptops, Netbooks, iPads, iPods, Smartphones

Will the students embrace it?

One-to-One

BudgetWho is paying for it?

GrantDistrict InitiativePackage Deals

One-to-One

InfrastructureBackboneSwitchesStorageManaged Wireless

One-to-One

Policiesuse and support clearly

defined

Security concerns

One-to-One

Staffing

Support people

Technical Service staff

Other staff cuts?

Instructor use

One-to-One

Documentation

Who has what device?

Special apps for programs?

Linked to accounts

One-to-One

Support concerns

Ready-swap spares

Warranty

Damaged Equipment

One-to-One

Virtual Desktop

VMWare

Citrix

Microsoft

Other open-source

Virtual Environments

The report, Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile! shows that students now view the inability to use their own devices in school as the primary barrier to a successful digital education“Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile” Nov 1, 2010

Virtual Environments

Within five years, every K-12 student in America will be using a mobile handheld device as a part of learningWill Smart Phones Eliminate the Digital Divide?, David Nagel02/01/11

Virtual Environments

Virtual Desktop Environments

access to software

access to printing

controlled environments

Security

Virtual Environments

“If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow”-John Dewey

21st Century Learning