sepc webinar: broadband - how much is enough?
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Broadband: How much is enough? Friday, February 8, 2013 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (ET) Register today, space is limited Presenters: Mike Leadingham, Director, Office of Knowledge, Information & Data Services, Kentucky Department of Education Tim Sizemore, Program Manager, Kentucky Education Network, Kentucky Department of Education Teri Sanders, Senior Director, Education Technology, K-12 High Speed Network, California Jose Ortega, Administrator, Education Technology Office, California Department of Education Join SETDA on Friday, February 8 from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET to hear from a panel of experts about the power of broadband access in their schools and participate in a demonstration of how to access details about state policies related to broadband, assessment and instructional materials via the State Education Policy Center (SEPC). Christine Fox, SETDA's Director of Educational Leadership and Research will facilitate a discussion during which presenters will explain each state's network organization and broadband access as well as an example of a district maximizing broadband access available to best meet the needs of technology rich learning environments.TRANSCRIPT
Broadband: How much is enough?
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This event is hosted by the State Educa3onal Technology Directors Associa3on (SETDA).
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Instant Presenter
Agenda
• Welcome and Introduc@ons • Broadband Impera@ve Report Overview • State Educa@on Policy Center (SEPC) Overview • States Sharing
-‐Mike Leadingham, Kentucky DOE -‐Tim Sizemore, Program Manager, Kentucky Educa@on Network -‐Teri Sanders, K-‐12 High Speed Network, California -‐Jose Ortega, California DOE
• Demonstra@on of SEPC • Ques@on & Answer
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Facilitator: Chris3ne Fox,
SETDA, Director of Educa3onal
Leadership and Research
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About SETDA
• Ten-year old national, non-profit member association
• Serve, support, and represent U.S. state and territorial directors (SEA leadership) for educational technology
• Forum for: – Research and best practices – Inter-state collaboration – Professional development – Public-private partnerships – State-federal relations
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Broadband ImperaBve
www.setda.org/web/guest/broadbandimpera@ve
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Move to Address K-‐12 Broadband Infrastructure Needs
Ensure Broadband Access for
Students and Educators
Build State Leadership
Advocate for Federal Funding
SEPC Home Page
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SEPC Broadband Landing Page
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State Network Landing Page
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Presenters
Mike Leadingham, Director, Office of Knowledge, Informa@on & Data Services, Kentucky DOE
Tim Sizemore, Program Manager, Kentucky Educa@on Network, Kentucky DOE
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State Networks
KEN
The Kentucky Educa@on Network
KEN Offerings
• Creates a founda@on for State-‐wide Ini@a@ves • Connec@vity to District Hub-‐site – Equitable Internet Access for all Districts & Schools – On-‐line Applica@ons Access – Access to State Standard Cloud Services (e-‐mail, SIS, Financial Management, CIITS)
• Network, Security & Firewall Services – Network Monitoring and Management – District Firewall Management
• Telecommunica@on Services (PRI, Long Distance, etc.)
Why a State Network?
• Kentucky Educa@on Reform Act (KERA) • Equitable Access for all Districts/Schools • Allows State Standards-‐Technical & Product • Supports State Contracts / Leverage the Buying Power of the State
• Funding-‐ State & Federal • Coopera@ve Effort / 100% Par@cipa@on
Next Genera@on
• New Ky. Informa@on Highway (KIH) Contract – Reduce Cost of Bandwidth to District Hub – Increase Bandwidth available Districts & Schools – Add Interconnected VoIP Services – Reduce Cost of Bandwidth within District WAN
• Increase Use of On-‐Line/Cloud Hosted Applica@ons – Online Instruc@onal Materials – Con@nuous Instruc@onal Improvement Technology System (CIITS) – On-‐line Assessments – P-‐20 Data Warehouse – Bring Your Own Device/Mobile Device Access – Collabora@on (Microsok Office 365 / Google Docs)
Current Kentucky Educa@on Network
Internet
VPN
KDE
AdairOldham Pike AV
H.323 Services
SIS
Network provided via KY Info. Highway -‐ 2
contract
FMS
Future Network
KEN Advances Online Tes@ng Ini@a@ves
• A centrally managed state-‐wide network allows for firewall rules and QoS rules to be set to priori@ze connec@vity to Computer Based Tes@ng (CBT) website.
• Expanded bandwidth based on district ADA size, allows for higher number of concurrent test sessions to be administered.
• Expanded bandwidth removes need for locally based servers hos@ng tes@ng content
KEN Advances Online Tes@ng Ini@a@ves
• Allows for faster implementa@on of different tes@ng systems.
• Reduces network troubleshoo@ng between districts and tes@ng vendor sites.
• 66-‐70% of districts are tes@ng end of course using on-‐line CBT (Computer Based Tes@ng)
• hnp://[email protected]/AA
KEN Impact on Classroom Learning
• "Digital Blended Learning" • Dual Credit Courses now offered Leveraging Lync Online (Owsley, Lee, Madison)
• 1:1 and BYOD Ini@a@ves • More focus on providing access to content through increased devices
• Cloud Based Offerings • Collabora@on
KEN Supports 1:1 & BYOD Ini@a@ves
KEN Enables Instruc@onal Improvement
“The Con3nuous Instruc3onal Improvement Technology System (CIITS) will connect standards, electronically stored instruc3onal resources, curriculum, forma3ve assessments, instruc3on, professional learning and evalua3on of teachers and principals in one place, thereby improving instruc3onal outcomes, teacher effec3veness and leadership.” -‐-‐Terry Holliday, Ph.D. Kentucky Educa@on Commissioner on the vision for CIITS • School and District Data-‐Reports and Indicators contains key facts and figures about students,
schools and districts. • Classrooms-‐Standards and Instruc@onal Materials contains tools that helps analyzes student
performance, create lesson plans, curriculum and instruc@onal materials. • Assessment Admin helps the user create and monitor assessments for classrooms, schools, and
districts. • Educator Development-‐Goals, Performance, and PD is a holis@c overview of Professional
Development, Teacher Effec@veness and PD ac@vi@es and resources. • hnp://[email protected]/curriculum/ciits
The Kentucky Educa@on Network
• Kentucky’s Educa@on Network con@nues to advance the opportunity for enhanced educa@on available to all schools and all kids in Kentucky.
Presenters
Jose Ortega, Administrator, Educa@on Technology Office, California DOE
Teri Sanders, Senior Director, Educa@on Technology, K-‐12 High Speed Network, California
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K-‐12 High Speed Network (K12HSN): Access for Achievement
The California K-‐12 High Speed Network
(K12HSN) is a program funded by the California
Department of Educa@on. K12HSN provides
California’s K-‐12 public schools with:
• Network connec@vity, • Internet services, • Teaching and learning applica@on
coordina@on, and • Videoconferencing coordina@on and
support.
www.k12hsn.org
CalREN, CENIC and K12HSN
K12HSN: Administers K-‐12’s par@cipa@on in CalREN
CENIC: Designs, Implements and Operates CalREN
CalREN: High-‐Speed, High-‐Bandwidth statewide network serving K-‐12 and Higher Educa@on
CalREN: California Research and Educa@on Network
• CalREN is a high-‐bandwidth, high-‐capacity
Internet network specially designed to
meet the unique requirements of
California’s educa@on and research
communi@es.
• The vast majority of the state's K-‐20
educa@onal ins@tu@ons are connected to
CalREN.
Connec@ng to the World!
CalREN connects CA K-‐20 to one another and the world!
Network Connec@vity
• As of February 2013, 86% of California School Districts and more than 7,790 schools are connected to CalREN through K12HSN
• Districts connect to the network via one of the 73 K12HSN Node Sites.
DataLINK: Connec@vity Data
• DataLINK offers direct access to connec@vity data and related informa@on for California’s K-‐12 schools and districts.
• Data can be viewed through any one of the standard reports. Custom reports can also be generated using the report generator feature.
Leveraging the Network
• Funded through the California Department of Educa@on
• K12HSN provides numerous tools and services which are beneficial to the K-‐12 community
Brokers of Exper@se
• Access high-‐quality collec@ons of standard-‐matched materials
• Create groups and communi@es for collabora@on
• Share best prac@ces and find models of exemplary teaching
www.myboe.org
Brokers of Exper@se
Videoconferencing Support
• K12HSN provides California K-‐12 schools and the Higher Educa@on community with a free videoconferencing scheduling system.
• Addi@onal services, such as mul@point bridging, recording and streaming are also available at no cost.
www.k20video.org
CaliQity: No cost e-‐Learning Platorm
Thanks to a strategic partnership between K12HSN and IQ-‐ity, California schools have access to CaliQity:
• Free Learning Management
System (LMS)
• Repository of free and fee-‐based courses and learning objects
www.caliqity.net
District Examples
District Student PopulaBon
ConnecBvity-‐Driven IniBaBves 4 Yr. Growth in API
Riverside Unified 42,532 Digital textbook pilots; Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) classrooms and policies to support same; federal Learning On the Go pilot; virtual high school launched in 2010; large one-‐to-‐one deployments to support instruc@on.
37 (797 from 760)
San Diego Unified 131,784 Under an “i21” ini@a@ve -‐-‐One to One deployments puxng 75,600 netbooks and 25,700 iPads in the hands of students; federal Learning On the Go pilot; BYOD ini@a@ve.
42 (808 from 766)
Los Angeles Unified 667,251 Relies on a Virtual Learning Complex coordina@ng school network moderniza@on; safety, communica@on & security; data center consolida@on; classroom technology offering students blended learning op@ons, a Learning Management System, a wide selec@on of end user choices in one-‐to-‐one devices.
52 (745 from 693)
Desert Sands Unified
29,123 BYOD ini@a@ve; relies on a total informa@on management tool (data warehousing) that aggregates data previously siloed and creates reports to inform instruc@on resul@ng in con@nuous student improvement.
39 (805 from 766)
Contact Us
For more informaBon:
Phone: (760) 312-‐6512
E-‐mail: [email protected]
Website: www.k12hsn.org
Teri Sanders, Imperial County Office of Educa@on
Jose Ortega, California Department of Educa@on
Q & A
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Website Demo
• SEPC Tour
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Resources
• Broadband: How Much is Enough? • Broadband Impera@ve • SETDA Broadband Resources • SEPC Broadband • assess4ed: hnp://assess4ed.net/content/resources • Technology Readiness Guidance
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Announcements
• Follow up survey and webinar feedback • “Opt in” for more SEPC event informa@on
SEPC: InstrucBonal Materials – Making the Transi3on from Print to Digital
April 12, 2013 at 2 pm ET
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