EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS
From the New Hampshire Department of Education
Office of Educational Technology
Date: September 4, 2002
Volume: 2002.09.01

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IN THIS ISSUE
- Local Technology Plans
- School Building Technology Surveys
- Teacher Surveys

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ET News is sent from the Office of Educational Technology at the New Hampshire Department of Education.

Welcome back to a new school year!  The Office of Educational Technology at the NH Department of Education has been working this summer trying to facilitate the collection of technology data required from NH schools. The following are a few of the changes we have made.  Please note the important due dates.

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Local Technology Plans
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In order for a school district to receive Educational Technology Funds available through Title II Part D of the No Child Left Behind Act, as well as e-rate discounts, school districts must have an approved technology plan on file.  As of September 1, 2002, all school districts must revise their technology plans. That is, plans currently on file at the NHDOE do not conform to the new requirements. A new school district technology plan must reflect the goals of the new Statewide Educational Technology Plan (See http://nheon.org/oet/stateplan). This is a new state plan submitted in June 2002 and approved by the US Department of Education to address the requirements of the new NCLB legislation.  To facilitate the process of school district tech plan approval, we have created an electronic rubric for school districts to complete.  
 
*         A school district should consult the Technology Planning Guide available at http://www.nheon.org/oet/tpguide and write a local technology plan.
*         After completing the process of writing a technology plan, the local school district should enter the information into the Technology Plan Rubric available at http://www.nheon.org/oet/tprubric/  Please enter the information from your technology plan into the appropriate fields. This may be easily done by cutting and pasting from an electronic version of your technology plan.  (Many school districts have recently revised their technology plans.  If this is the case, please enter this revised information into the rubric.)
*         The Office of Educational Technology will be approving plans based upon the information submitted in the Technology Plan Rubric.
*         In order to be eligible for the next round of federal funds, this process must be completed by November 1, 2002.
*         If the new plan is an SAU plan that covers several districts you will only have to enter this for the first district. Please notify Chrys Bouvier at cbouvier@ed.state.nh.us or 603-271-8049 which districts are covered by the SAU plan. 

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School Building Technology Surveys
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The 2002 technology survey is available at http://www.nheon.org/oet/survey02/ . This is the same survey that school building technology coordinators have completed in the past.  We will now be trying to collect this information at the beginning of the school year.  You will need your school identification number to complete the building survey.  If you require that information, please contact Chrys Bouvier at cbouvier@ed.state.nh.us or 603-271-8049. These surveys must be completed by November 1, 2002 in order to be eligible for any technology funds administered by the NH Department of Education.

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Teacher Surveys
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The Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi) assessments are now open for the 2002-2003 school year.  You may access the assessment from http://nheon.org/oet/loti . The closing date for these surveys will be early spring of 2003. If your staff took these surveys late last school year, you may wish to time the announcement of this to your staff so your data will be collected close to a yearly interval.  We received excellent data from the assessments made last year and hope that school technology coordinators will be using the information from last year’s LoTi assessments to complete the information required in the School Building Technology Surveys.  LoTi is available to all schools in NH.  If you need assistance with the introduction of this tool to your staff, please contact Chrys Bouvier at cbouvier@ed.state.nh.us or 603-271-8049.

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Regards,
Cathy Higgins
for the staff at the NHDOE Office of Educational Technology

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