3. Fractured landscape, pockets of innovation
Learning and IT out of sync
Too much focus on tech
Lack of IT tools, too many manual processes
A need to understand and repurpose
“innovation”
4.
5. Based on manual processes
Limited ability to leverage electronic identity
management
6. Long (7 year) replacement cycle
High number of desktop and laptop models in
the system
Reduce the time needed to service computers
(number of images in the system)
7. Change the culture in the IT department
Align priorities with learning
Modeling of alignment and planning
Define key technology building blocks
Consider systemic change impact
8.
9. Senior
Consultants
Classroom support teachers
The Integrated Project Team
Leverage a common language
10. Move all sites through the change process
Keep project timelines as tight as possible
Maintain the same standards at all sites
Consider sustainability implications
11. Hardware models (and images)
Software
Bandwidth
Network drops/classroom
Wireless for all instructional rooms
New school equipping list
Allocation processes
12. Create an environment that is:
Easier to use
Easier to maintain
Empower the end user
Align with learning strategies and priorities
Factors in total cost of ownership & sustainability
13. Improve and increase network performance
and bandwidth in a sustainable way
Set the stage for system wide wireless
deployment
Prepare system for a Bring Your Own Device
(BYOD) environment
14.
15. AD Sync
Merge domains (group users, computers)
Extend access to a system wide (online)
learning community (SConnect & FirstClass)
16. Cycle reduced from 7 to 5 years
No extra costs
Improved model control
Established an internal IT store
Set up all of our Apple computers (5000) to
leverage the dual boot mode to promote
choice and flexibility for teachers
19. Aligned technology tools with our 5 high yield
teaching strategies
Anchor charts
Graphic Organizers
Non fiction writing
Critical questions
Student exemplars
20. Computers Across the Curriculum
After school program
CATC Camp (annual summer event)
Self directed
Aligned with our framework
http://catccamp.wrdsb.ca
21. Redefined “support”
Writing and Collaboration
Blogs, Wikis, Google docs
Social Media
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Desire to Learn (eLearning)
OSAPAC titles
Focus on enabling
24. Align School Success Plans with site based
CATC plans
Phased out our Acceptable Use Procedure
and replaced it with a new Responsible Use
Procedure
http://www.wrdsb.ca/rup
Built a library learning commons website to
better support learning
http://library.wrdsb.ca
25. IT Expectations (ITX)
Impact of mobile devices on learning (iPods)
JK/SK iPad research
Futures Forum Project
26. Hot Spots (completed 2010/11)
Every classroom (completed 2011/12)
27. Purchased iPads and syncing carts for each
school
Established iPads as a standard for all JK/SK
programs (FDK)
28. Hold the course
Maintain the alignment
Continue to build capacity
Continue network growth
Shifting balance of desktop and mobile
Full Google Apps Integration