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Conroe ISD Technology. Terry McClaugherty Director of Network Services Teri Ross Director of Information Services Jarod Lambert Coordinator of Instructional Technology. Goal 6. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Conroe ISD Technology
Terry McClaugherty
Director of Network Services
Teri Ross
Director of Information Services
Jarod Lambert
Coordinator of Instructional Technology
Goal 6 CISD will provide technology infrastructure,
tools, and solutions to meet the administrative requirements of the District and to maximize learning for all students.
Technology Upgrades 3 year plan recently approved funding these
projects:
Campus computing needs,
Ongoing district maintenance,
Bandwidth upgrade,
Infrastructure upgrade.
Campus Computing Needs Replacing old student hardware with faster
and newer devices.
Reduces repair cost on older hardware / devices. Purchasing refurbished computers to reduce
acquisition costs. Refurbished has the same warranty as a new
device.
Campus Computing Needs Web PC Carts and iPad Carts
347 WebPC laptop carts
120 iPad carts
Ongoing District Maintenance Wireless Saturation (Completed Feb 2014)
Wall to wall wireless coverage in buildings
Next phase is density upgrade for high traffic wireless areas
BYOD, iPads, WebPC carts continue to support the need for increased wireless at campuses. Many people have 2 connected devices
Ongoing District Maintenance System upgrades
Servers, storage and Internet filter Phone system Core networking equipment, routers and switches Security system servers, panels and camera
replacements IP broadcast devices (TV over IP) Onsite data backup system Student & Finance servers
Bandwidth upgrade Current internet bandwidth is 700mb
(upgrading to 800mb in 2014-2015 school year)
More video, cloud computing, hosted programs (iLearn, Gradpoint, LMS, etc) requires additional bandwidth
Re-cabling schools for increased internal bandwidth
Replacing switches with faster/newer devices
Changing internal connection to our own fiber (from leased connections) for reliability and scaling.
Increase available bandwidth between campuses and admin
Infrastructure Upgrades Replacing older hardware that is used for
emergency communication in power failure
Generators at hub campuses
Replace old IP Phones
UPS data center upgrade / replacement
Student system / network storage
Technology Support Windows XP end of life
Implementing Windows 7 this summer
Certain models in our district that can handle and are licensed for Windows 7 will have a district image soon
Major system change was required for our internal imaging system to work with Windows 7
6 District network technicians travel to assigned campuses for work order and technology issues.
2 District security technicians for security cameras, servers, projectors and other video related issues.
Future Mobile computing continues to be the future
for anytime, anywhere learning
Multiple types of computing deviceclassrooms
Questions?
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Research & Information Fluency
Technology Applications TEKS
http://goo.gl/faMR0W
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Sites to Validate
All About Explorers
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
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The "link:" command searches for sites that link to the site of interest. In this case, the search results list web pages that have a link to www.allaboutexplorers.com.
By including additional information, you can keep the search results from returning pages from the site itself in the results. For this search, the additional information would be: -*.allaboutexplorers.com.
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All About Explorers
Using the Google Link Command
• link: www.allaboutexplorers.com
• link: www.allaboutexplorers.com -*.allaboutexplorers.com
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link: www.allaboutexplorers.com
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link: www.allaboutexplorers.com -*.allaboutexplorers.com
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Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Back-tracking the Domain
• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
• http://zapatopi.net
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http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus
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http://zapatopi.net
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Advanced Google Search
Take some time to build a search using Google's Advanced Search tool.
• http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Using operators within the Google Search Box
• Click here for more information.
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Common Web Extensions• .k12 - Schools in the U.S.
• .edu - Educational Organization
• .ac - Academic Institution (not in the U.S.)
• .com - Commercial
• .org - Any Organization
• .gov - Government Agency
• .net – Network
• .mil - Military Institution (U.S.)
November, A. (2008). Web literacy for educators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, p. 33.
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Going Wayback!
Archive.org's Wayback Machine
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Closing Thoughts
• Validating information is a valuable skill regardless of the format of that information.
• We are past the point where we can tell people to use just books to find information.
• Knowing how to validate information is a vital skill for both academic and workforce development.