Use these sites to gather information for your report. Your recommendations should be broad but include all stakeholders - students, families, teachers, administrators and community. You should recommend policy, equipment guidelines, curriculum requirements, & benchmarks or standards. You can include action plans and implementation standards. Remember that you must justify your recommendations with data from the readings.
Your report should consist of the facts as you found them and the recommendations that you are making based on those facts. It should focus on what kind of technologies the school division should have, what the main use(s) should be and how to include it in the curriculum.
A table is a good way to present information in a logical, easily readable format. There is a downloadable table template in the Documents section.
Copyright and Fair Use
What can teachers legally copy and distribute to their class? How does this affect a school division (Who is liable)? Are the rules for placing items on the internet different than the classroom? What about those great shows you see on the Discovery Channel - can you use them?
Plagiarism & Citations This is the era of "copy and paste," ‘the electronic shovel’. Do your students understand what plagiarism means? Do you realize that the way you create an assignment may be one of the reasons your students may plagiarize their work? How can you prevent this from happening?
Ethics & Social Networking Identify ethical use of the technology resources by students and faculty - consider P2P file sharing, using USB drives, network vulnerability. Is it Ok for students or teachers to have copies of music files in their school accounts? How many files or how much of one can be copied/shared? How do you know if it is a legal copy/file?
Can teachers load copies of software that they own to school computers? What about viruses, trojans, hackers, & crackers?