Workshop Notes – April 18, 2008 – Tech Planning Workshop at GMPDC

• Indirect costs on DOE grants (Rates are negotiated each year by district and DOE, but district decides if they want to take indirect on any given grant. Their option.)

• Policy development for Web 2.0

− Need to standardize processes

− Need to open the web

− Have AUP with both the legal and layman’s language so we can understand it

− What about kids getting thru proxies?

• Talk to kids, identify and redirect their energies to positive technology tasks

− Policies need to be enforced

− Need to educate more… evaluating websites, etc. (Why not YouTube?)

• Invite local police to school to talk about Internet safety

• NHSTE Tech Coordinators – Attorney General Ayotte was at recent meeting, she or her staff are available to come to school for a session on internet safety.

• Open access wireless point near school – how to handle? Talk with the neighbor? Purchase expensive blocking system?

• See www.opennh.org – currently developing “School Policies in 21st Century” course… expect to offer this in Summer 2008

• What about blogging? Parents have to approve posting of their kids’ work. What guidelines do we need for this?

− School board creates policies and tech staff creates the protocols to implement them.

− Where are the guidelines, recommendations, tips to handle and stay within the policy?

− What resource is there to help teachers learn how to create and maintain a blog?

• How do we get more tech integration when we’re chasing the GLEs for testing and getting off the SINI and DINI list?

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