District+67+Technology+Team

=**District 67 Technology Team**=

At our October 18, 2006 meeting, Mr. DuBose asked us to think about where our district is at with technology integration and to consider how to evalutate the efforts of District 67. Our assignment was to review the District 67 Technology Plan, look at technology integration practices and decide whether our plan is relevant.

We were also asked to bring ideas to our next meeting (November 15) about how we would might go about collecting data for evaluating the district's efforts. I spent a little time looking to see what other districts are doing to evaluate their programs with the hope that we could get some ideas for our own use.

There are plenty of models of technology assessment available online. Here are a few that I found interesting and hopefully helpful:

The Northwest Educational Technology Consortium (NETC) http://www.netc.org/planning/eval/

A resource listed at NETC is a State Educational Technology Directors Association site, //Profiling Educational Technology Integration// [|http://www.setda-peti.org/]

2005-06 School Technology Inventory Questions - from Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction http://www.k12.wa.us/EdTech/inventory05.aspx

I just returned from the[| 2007 ICE Conference] where I asked [|Tim Wilson] if he had any suggestions of where to look for a district wide technology assessment tool and/or company. Here are his two recommendations: 1. [|TechPoint] which seems to be affiliated with [|NCREL]. 2. [| MILE Guide] - [|The Partnership for 21st Century Skills] developed the Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (MILE) Guide for 21st Century Skills to assist educators and administrators in measuring the progress of their schools in defining, teaching and assessing 21st Century Skills. Here you will find links to downloads, the MILE Guide online assessment and the MILE Guide workshop.

Please feel free to comment and add resources and/or links to this wiki. Thanks. Fred fkoch@lfelem.lfc.edu