Questions+and+Answers

Questions & Answers
Post here if you have any questions you would like answered - answer any questions that you see posed that you can contribute an idea, a thought, or if it brings up any additional questions.

I see on the agenda that we are looking at a draft for the committee mission statement? Does that mean we will be rewriting the tech plan again this year? Is this a yearly project?

Answer: The district tech plan is our guiding document. It will be an annual process to go through it and determine if we are meeting our goals, if not do we need to change the document or do we need to invest more time, energy, money (whatever) to get the goal accomplished. The Tech Plan is our measuring stick to see how well we are doing.

Software Questions
Do software purchases have to be made to include all schools or can schools purchase software for individual campuses?

Answer (Amanda's opinion, we can discuss this) - Sites can purchase their own software but it does need to go through a set process (we need to document this and work out the bugs). In meeting with IT, Ed Tech, & Curriculum these are the steps we have identified that it needs to take: 1. A request stating the educational need needs to be submitted to Ed Tech 2. Ed Tech & Curriculum will get together and appraise the need and different ways we can meet that need (we would probably meet with the stakeholders during this time) 3. If a software solution is needed, Ed Tech will do a preliminary assessment (does it work with our operating system, what are the requirements (plugins, bandwidth, etc) 4.  IT will do testing to determine if there are any conflicts with our current configuration. 5.  Purchase 6. Deploy