Well I'll try again. I was trying to send this from my G1 but every time I closed it because I was traveling it would either send the message or loose what I sent. Now I'm back home on my iPad. The first part of my message if you didn't see it in an earlier message is below this message.
Anyway, the planning w/ a lot of support at the local level we thought would work. What no on foresaw where 2 trends, The gutting of Instructional Technology support (both staffing and funding) at both the state and local levels The Tech Plan becoming the "gatekeeper" document for eRate funding which effectively both created a bunch of bureaucratic requirements that were out of state control and locked things in a kind of political amber with little positive change happening. At the current time a system that requires new tech plans from over 300 school districts a year is staffed with about 10% of the staffing it should have. And, while I find many elements of the system very frustrating (not the least is the really poor online system, and everyone is right the inventory form is a joke) I do have to say the people involved at both the state and local level do their best with a busted system. Jim On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Jim Flanagan <jhflana...@gmail.com> wrote: > A couple of comments, > > The state people & Tech Planning. The original plan was envisioned as a way > to ensure that technology was actually driven by instructional needs. The > intent was to force school districts to treat technology as more than just > the newest shiny thing. > > The process was developed during a time period when the state had a lot of > resources allocated to Instructional Technology. side note: I'd love to know > how many people were supporting Tech under Cheryl Lemke 12 or so years ago. I > do know we had very well equiped and staffed local and support centers. > (North Cook ESC and Area 1 Hub > > sent from G1 > Cell: 773.396.4638 > Chicago: 773.463.5494 > Beaver Island: 231.448.2109 > >> On Sep 21, 2010 9:05 AM, "Bob Schmidt" <bschm...@winfield34.org> wrote: >> >> I bet that no one would have noticed if you didn't say anything. >> >> >>> "Bob Morse" <bmo...@d168.org> 9/21/2010 8:33 AM >>> >> >> Be aware!! We used the online portal last year to enter data into the >> inventory, all was well. Wh... >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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