Introduction: What does your budget tell you?
Timeline: On-Going
Who's Involved: Stakeholders (Departments, Staff, Teachers, Technology Committee, Community Members...)
Key Components: Was Your Tech Plan and Budget Aligned with School Improvement, Core Curriculum? Do you know?
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Three Core Components:
Money:
Compelling Evidence that Technology Works.
Leveraging Resources
People:
A Strong Management System
Adequate training of instructional, administrative, and technical staff
Insufficient technical expertise
Little asset inventory or management
Proliferation of operating systems and desktop images
Use of one-time funding sources to invest in new technology.
Organization:
Staying Focused on a Core Vision
Resources:
MS Power point on color Printing
Return on Investment (ROI) / Value of Investment (VOI)
How do You Know if that Expenditure has/had a Positive Effect?
Can something that costs more be more valuable than something that costs less and vice versa? (network bid example)?
Standardization: iPads, Chromebooks, or Laptops or all?
Components:
Determine the Total Cost: VOI Project Cost Estimator
Calculate Anticipated Savings and Revenues
Higher attendance
Grants or state/federal aid.
Measure Qualitative Benefits
Directly or indirectly affect the school or district's mission, goals, and mandates
Project Benefits Worksheet (Similar to School Improvement Plan).
Compare Projects: Is there more than one way to get there?
Evaluate the Results
Actual costs versus anticipated costs
Actual savings or revenues versus anticipated savings revenue
Actual measurable benefits versus anticipated benefits
Resources
Did you consider?
How stakeholder buy-in can make a technology you may not like work?
The power of a technology coach/integrationist?