michael oldenkamp director of technology and information services
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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
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