Tech Plan Electronic Forms

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Tech Plan Electronic Forms

• Updates for 2004

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Tech plan forms are open . . . . . . from
October 12 through November 19, 2004.
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Purpose of tech plan forms

• Help districts and DOE assess their progress in
  meeting technology goals
• Enable districts to be eligible for technology
  funding
• Help ensure that districts are complying with
  E-Rate regulations, as well as state and federal
  tech goals

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Another purpose . . .

• We can analyze data submitted by districts to
  identify trends and best practices.
• We share information through our annual report.

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Did you know?

• Submitting tech plan data online is not a tech
  plan!
• It is a report on your implementation of your
  long-range tech plan.

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Tech Plan Approval

• We review the data districts submit online to
  assess your progress in implementing your tech
  plan.
• This year, we ask you to provide the URL of your
  technology plan so that we can also review it.

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New questions for 2004

• Questions related to E-Rate regulations
• Questions related to the new Massachusetts
  technology guidelines
• Questions related to NCLB goals

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Questions related to Erate

• What is the URL where your long-range tech plan
  is posted?
• How do you evaluate your tech plan?
• How do you pay for the non-discounted portion of
  your E-Rate purchases?

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New guidelines for 2006-7

• 1. Commitment to a clear vision and mission
  statement
• 2. Technology integration
• 3. Technology professional development
• 4. Accessibility of technology
• 5. Infrastructure for connectivity
• 6. Access to the Internet outside the school day

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NCLB technology goals

• Student technological literacy
• Professional development
• Distance learning initiatives
• Technology for parent communication

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New Questions
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Student technology literacy

• What of students in grades 5-8 have mastered
  the tech standards?
• How did you arrive at your answer?

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Teacher use of technology

• How often do teachers use technology?
• For planning, administrative tasks,
  communications, and collaboration
• For instruction (with students)
• How do you know?

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New tools to help districts gather data

• Technology Self Assessment Tool
• Teacher Technology Use Survey
• Administrators Technology Self-Assessment Tool
  (now in draft form)

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Technical support

• How do you provide tech support?
• A new text field allows you to describe how you
  deal with this challenge.
• This will allow us to share new ideas in our
  annual report.

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Distance learning

• There are separate questions on
• Web-based courses and workshops
• Courses and workshops that use web-based
  videoconferencing
• Satellite-based or televised courses and
  workshops

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Upgrades to computer types

• Changes have been made as a result of your input
  at our spring roundtables.
• Type A 256 MB RAM, Pentium 4 or Macintosh G4
  (or equivalent)
• Type B 128 MB RAM, Pentium 3 or Macintosh G3
  (or equivalent)

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Now on the school form

• Questions about acceptable use policies (now
  including policies for staff)
• Questions about access to computers and the
  Internet outside the school day (with a new
  question about allowing students to bring laptops
  from home)

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Other technologies

• Probes for handhelds
• Digital still cameras
• Scanners

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Other changes

• PD does not have to be paid for by district in
  order to be counted.
• The form asks you to indicate the grade levels in
  each school.

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Help us collect better data
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Student to computer ratios

• You should count only computer that were in your
  district from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2004.
• The ratio is calculated using the student
  population from the same year.

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Curriculum integration support

• Last year, just 46 of districts had a ratio of
  at least a half-time support person for every 60
  teachers.
• However 5 of districts reported a ratio of a
  half-time person for 10 or fewer teachers. Is
  this correct???

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Curriculum integration support

• Be sure to enter the total number of
  instructional staff (teachers, aides,
  paraprofessionals).
• The form calculates the ratio of instructional
  staff to support staff (counting staff and
  contracted services).

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Curriculum integration support

• This years curriculum integration support ratio
  is based on 1 FTE rather than .5 FTE.
• Library personnel can be counted as curriculum
  integration support staff if they perform that
  function.

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Classrooms connected

• We ask how many classrooms in a school.
• We ask how many are connected.
• If the second number is greater than the first,
  the percent will be 100.

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Computers connected

• The form calculates the number of instructional
  computers in a school.
• We ask how many are connected.
• If you enter a number greater than the total, the
  percent will be 100.

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Questions?