Smyrna School District
Technology Planning Meeting
THE Technology Goal

Technology will be used throughout the district to help every student meet or exceed the standards.  These uses include instructional (both teacher-directed and student utilization), administrative (teacher-level to district-level), and support services applications of technology.
Agenda -- May 11, 2000

1. Plan for the June 9th District Wide Inservice

2. Progress Reports

Debbie Wicks, Bev Rennie, and Stan Borowski Board Policy
Pat Dunn

Revised Handbook

What plans are there for disseminating this? Who is taking the lead?

Brenda Foulk, Anita Bullock and Shirley Dear

Update on plans for summer training

Web Publishing Guidelines
Kathy Andrus, Lori Robinson, and Barbara Lesley

Guidelines for Purchasing Educational Software (website)
Guidelines for Purchasing Educational Software (pdf)

Questions:
    • Who will have long-term responsibility for this page?
    • What budget are we talking about for purchase of software
Dave and Fran Update on purchase specs for computers and report from progress with District Technology Committee
Jaqui Wilson and ??? List for spare parts inventory for each school
District Technology Committee needs to review this. Next step is to decide who is the person responsible for maintaining this inventory at each school. Also, where is the budget for the initial purchases?
Shirley Dear, Gavin Standish, Lori Robinson and Debbie Hatfield  List of common technical problems that users could solve for themselves and a step-by-step guide to solve each problem.
This is an extensive document that did not get the discussion it deserved at the meeting. After an edit review and addition of a table of contents, the next step is to introduce and implement some procedures for making this the operational document in each school. This stemmed from our earliest conversations on how to make the individual users more responsible and more capable when dealing with technology problems.
To read the reports which are in Adobe Acrobat format, you will need to download and install the correct Adobe software to read these on your computer.

New Issues

  1. E-mail: How will the district provide e-mail? In some cases this is already being done through an existing Linux server. Should the district consider supplying all students with e-mail accounts? What about as the district transitions to greater use of the IMS which will require students to have network logins? Will e-mail addresses be the natural way of doing business in that environment?

  2. Keyboarding skills Should this be part of the elementary curriculum? How should it be approached? What implications does this have for high school courses?
  3. Smyrna School District Web Site: This generated much discussion and it would probably be good to make this a new item in terms of district, school and classroom responsibilities. Some teachers have websites on other sites. Should there be an official policy about linking those or not? How will it be enforced?
  4. Student Volunteers Should the district embark on using more students to help get things done?



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