Part one and part two of this series looked at how education technology leaders might want to plan to meet the curricular and professional development goals of their school district as related to technologies. In this post, I'll explore the information technology part of the equation. IT Assessment The organization's network, hardware, technical support capacities, software, and asset management components are what makes up the information technology infrastructure. To impr

Yesterday, I wrote about the two of the five elements best associated with planning for district or school wide technology integration. I looked at the big picture and setting goals/objectives. In this post, I'll address professional development. Professional Development As CIOs or any leaders in public education, we have to ensure that both staff and students understand how to use technologies to improve education services. But before we can establish a professional devel

So you want to prepare your school district for the next three years to meet its technology needs, do 'ya? Developing a master plan for the use of technologies in public education is a complex task. But in this series of posts, I'll try to break it down as simply as I can. First of all, don't work in isolation from other district/school-level planning. That is, the days of creating technology plans as stand-alone documents are long gone. Your plans should be deeply integr