The district recently distributed a survey regarding educational technologies to parents district-wide, and one parent reached out with questions regarding where they could get more information about our technology programs. This, combined with the fact that we recently published our 100th article and have been going strong for just over one year, leads me to conclude that it’s about time to reintroduce the Iowa City Schools’ Technology & Innovation blog!
We have over a thousand subscribers to the Technology & Innovation blog, but that obviously represents a very small slice of our larger school community, including parents, students, and other community stakeholders. It’s my goal that awareness of and access to this resource be spread to as many people as possible. With that in mind, I’m posting this reintroduction, including links to some of our highlights below. I’d encourage you to share this post via Twitter, Facebook, and email with anyone who might be interested.
Also, just a reminder that you can use the widgets on the blog to subscribe to email or text notifications when new content is posted.
As mentioned, here’s a small sample of some of the Technology & Innovation blog posts that are relevant to our current technology environment and initiatives:
- An overview of all completed, in-progress, and planned technology projects
- Our secondary 1:1 Initiative
- An updated elementary device deployment plan
- A weighted-resource model for elementary device deployments
- Our updated classroom technology suite
- A resource page devoted to Canvas, our new secondary LMS
- Information about our funding sources
- General information and research relating to educational technology
I hope that this reminder and these resources are helpful. As always, please get in touch with me with topics that you would like to see on the Technology & Innovation blog!