Pre-Session+Survey+Draft

To help us personalize your workshop experience, it would help us to know more about your needs and goals for participating. Kindly take a few moments to answer the questions below. We look forward to meeting you in person and enjoying a challenging, productive session together. Information you provide will be aggregated and shared with the group but will not identify you personally.


 * There will be a breakout session based on responses...rank ordering the components--Student Learning, Professional Devlopment, Technology Management, Technology Leadership...

Antonio, Denise, Jill, Howard, and Curt

What grade levels does your school serve?

How many students are currently enrolled at your school?

About how many full time employees are there at your school?

About how many of these employees have primary responsibilities for leading, managing, supporting, and/or teaching in school technology efforts?

Do you have a laptop program currently in place in at least one of your divisions?

What are the three top challenges you face in your school's current instructional technology environment?

List of possible challenges to choose from: Faculty time to prepare traditional class schedules access to laptops 24/7 access to resources 24/7 access to help (just in time help/support, team teaching support in the classroom) boundary issues with social networking teacher/student budget concerns faculty comfort (interest) adminstrative encouragement vision that supports risk taking and values technological methodologies AP courses and/or standardized testing (the assumption that there is too much material to cover to do it differently) curriculum development that is collaborative and focused on student needs

What are the three most compelling opportunities you see in using technology in the service of student learning?

What are the three top challenges you face in using technology to enhance your school's business and administrative operations? Availability of integrated web-based database solutions List to choose from: Seamless data exchange between databases (i.e. library, food service, books) cooperation and collaboration between internal departments Access to online services to Parents, Students, Alumni Paper to paperless concerns Work-flow efficiency affordable solutions adequately prepared staff to support the 'solutions' administrative support/encouragement

Is there a particular piece of technology (hardware, software, gadget, web tool, etc.) that has really captured your imagination or radically altered how you work or learn? What is it, and what about it do you find so engaging? List to choose from: pen-based laptop (tablet) ipod/itouch (audio recorders) podcasting webcam Interactive whiteboard document camera classroom clicker system USB digital video cameras inexpensive video cameras - vodcast development/use inexpensive PC options online classroom management (Moodle, WebCT, etc.) TeacherTube, YouTube LIteShow II - wireless connection from tablet/computer to projector cell phones clickers

What concrete takeaways from this workshop would make it a highly successful event for you?