Michael Oldenkamp Director of Technology and Information Services

Buy-in Staffing Budget One-to-one environments Virtual Environments Topics

Establish Open Communication Get users to believe in technology and support upgrades Down-time Upgrades Establish A Technology Committee Be open to communication yourself Demonstrate new technologies and concepts How these technologies will improve a persons job Get students involved Buy-in

Students Start technology club Students are your eyes in the classroom Documentation Justification for requesting more help Makes your job easier in the long run Staffing

Do more with less funding Budget

Emergencies are going to happen Have backup plans/DR plan Spare pieces of equipment phased-out equipment guaranteed contracted services Budget

Planning/Documentation Approved buffer zone in budget 3-5 year plan Open-source software Budget

Pros: Lot of good alternatives Generally good support Cons: Lack of Industry support Some Products tied to one person Open-Source Software

Filezilla Firefox 7-Zip TrueCrypt FreeMind GIMP VLC Media Player OpenOffice MySQL MyPHP ANT Renamer OpenVPN Putty Notepad++ Smoothwall NCC Open-Source

Websites: software/index.html Open-Source Software

Each student has one device Anytime Anywhere learning Devices: Laptops, Netbooks, iPads, iPods, Smartphones Will the students embrace it? One-to-One

Budget Who is paying for it? Grant District Initiative Package Deals One-to-One

Infrastructure Backbone Switches Storage Managed Wireless One-to-One

Policies use and support clearly defined Security concerns One-to-One

Staffing Support people Technical Service staff Other staff cuts? Instructor use One-to-One

Documentation Who has what device? Special apps for programs? Linked to accounts One-to-One

Support concerns Ready-swap spares Warranty Damaged Equipment One-to-One

Virtual Desktop VMWare Citrix Microsoft Other open-source Virtual Environments

The report, Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile! shows that students now view the inability to use their own devices in school as the primary barrier to a successful digital education Learning in the 21 st Century: Taking it Mobile Nov 1, 2010 Virtual Environments

Within five years, every K-12 student in America will be using a mobile handheld device as a part of learning Will Smart Phones Eliminate the Digital Divide?, David Nagel02/01/11 Virtual Environments

Virtual Desktop Environments access to software access to printing controlled environments Security Virtual Environments

If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow -John Dewey 21 st Century Learning