The following table identifies the hardware and software that will need to be in place in order to achieve the goals described in this plan:
Goal 1 Upgrade infrastructure and hardware at all schools to meet curricular and professional development goals
Year(s) Annual Benchmarks Person/Team
Responsible
Monitoring and Evaluation
Year 1 Early Childhood centers will have a 5 Mbps fiber connection, and Adult Education will have a 100 Mbps connection to the district WAN. School wiring/ network upgraded at 9 k12 schools.
Year 1 District Hot Site becomes
operational. 300 Mbs Connection to K12HSN installed
Year 2 School Wiring/ Network upgrades at a k12 school, 24 ECE sites and district Adult education centers. Year 2 District data center moves to new
location
Technology Services and Fiscal Services
Technology and Fiscal Services will continuously monitor the development and implementation of all infrastructure upgrade and hardware/software, and technical support activities and accomplishments with input from
Years 1, 2, 3 Advanced training for Technology Services staff will be implemented to support the new infrastructure.
district stakeholders and provide semi- annual progress reports to the District Strategy Team and School Board. The infrastructure upgrade and hardware/software, and technical support plan will be modified as needed to maintain an infrastructure adequate to support plan objectives. Years 1, 2, 3 K-12 schools will purchase or
upgrade their PCs, Macs, and peripherals so that they are capable of supporting the baseline package of hardware and software as outlined in Section 3h.
Goal 2 Provide approved technology applications, electronic learning resources, and enabling technologies needed to support other components of the plan.
Year(s) Annual Benchmarks Person/Team
Responsible
Monitoring and Evaluation
Year 1 Identify approved technology applications (i.e. Read 180), electronic learning resources (i.e. netTrekker di), and enabling technologies (i.e. Videostreaming and web delivered content) that will support the pedagogy, pacing, instructional strategies, and interventions detailed in OUSD’s ELA K-12 Instructional Guide.
Site Administrators, Regional Network Executive Officers, Technology Services Year 1 Identify approved technology
applications (i.e. PLATO), electronic learning resources (i.e. netTrekker di), and enabling technologies (i.e. video streaming and web delivered instructional content) that will support the pedagogy, pacing, instructional
LCI ELA team, Instructional Technology Team, Site Administrators, and ELA teachers District instructional services, research and assessment, technology, and school site administrators will continuously track the development and implementation of all activities and accomplishments and provide semi- annual progress reports to the District Strategy Team and School Board. The program
strategies, and interventions detailed in OUSD’s Math K-12 Instructional Guide.
Year 1 Annually review, update, and disseminate technology resources and adaptive and assistive
technology tools that support the needs of special and diverse learners. Instructional Services Math team, Instructional Technology Team, Site Administrators, and Math teachers Years 1, 2, 3 Provide shared network storage,
online collaboration tools, and/or instructional portal access for teachers, library staff, and Instructional Services staff to develop and share instructional plans and projects, resources, and best practice strategies that embed technology and information literacy standards and curriculum into the core content areas.
Technology Services Department, Instructional Services and Instructional Technology teams, Programs for Exceptional Children Dept. and GATE office Years 2, 3 All students and instructional staff
will have access to e-mail and digital lockers giving them the ability to safely and securely save and retrieve files from any
networked computer within or outside of school. Technology Services, LCI and Instructional Technology teams, District library staff Year 1 and ongoing
Develop or adapt and disseminate model web page templates to facilitate two-way, home-school communications. The templates may include: basic school and classroom information and policies, e-mail links, grade and homework information, newsletters, calendars, event information, student work samples, videos and podcasts, surveys, and response forms.
Technology Services will be modified as needed to maintain a cycle of improvement that supports program objectives.
Goal 3 Employ help desk systems to streamline technical support responses and access tools to troubleshoot systems remotely. Create a web based
troubleshooting database that allows teachers and staff to check out and fix minor technical glitches.
Year(s) Annual Benchmarks Person/Team Responsible
Monitoring and Evaluation
Year 1, 2, 3 Refine and implement new features of the online Help Desk software to enable users to document issues and request assistance.
Instructional Technology and Technology Services Year 1, 2, 3 Monitor and evaluate Help Desk
requests to document common questions and how they were resolved to continually improve service to users.
Year 2, 3 Document common technical issues to create a web based knowledge database that allows teachers and staff to review and fix minor technical glitches. Technology Services Technology Services will continuously monitor the development and implementation of all technical support activities and accomplishments with input from district stakeholders and provide semi- annual progress reports to the District Strategy Team and School Board. The technical support plan will be modified as needed to maintain a cycle of improvement that supports plan objectives.