Break into groups and talk about technology readiness and online testing and how this will impact your budget and what you will do about it.
More Internet Bandwidth is needed
Allot $100.00 per year per student for replacement. Will your District agree to do this?
1:1 cannot be handled in general fund: need a Bond/Millage/Grant to get started.
2. Budgeting Exercise:
While there are many sources of funding listed here: how many are really ones you can realistically use (meet grant requirements, matching funds), What are some we missed, what do you think about Trek for Tech?
County-Wide Tech Millage?
Split energy/printing/etc. cost savings with buildings to increase tech funding: They get funds/You get funds
3. P & M Exercise:
Where did your costs go up? Your budget is already in trouble due to unexpected crashes, District wants to run an online learning program including buying laptops for all staff, etc. What do you do?
Starting online learning classes.
4. Evaluation Exercise:
Where have you saved money / what money saving technologies are you using?
Multi-Year Contracts
Consortium Purchasing (ISD-Based and LEA-Based)
Open Source: Open Office, Asterisk, FOG
SchoolView: Monitoring software
SchoolDude: Use to Make a case for more support
Student Interns from colleges work-study (ITT Tech, Baker College) or HS students
Centralize Printing / Print Management
Paperless: CEO Image