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News

Progress is Messy!

As Labor Day passes, we’re beginning the third week of the school year in Iowa City and really starting to roll towards 2018.  While this time of year is always ridiculously busy for the Technology & Innovation office – it’s not uncommon in our district and others to see support requests come in at five to six times the normal rate during the first month or so of the school year – this year has been our craziest yet.   Continue reading Progress is Messy! →

How-To Guides, News

Getting Started with 1:1

On August 23rd, ICCSD began issuing 1:1 Chromebooks (laptops with Chrome OS) to each student in our high schools.  As we get started with this program, please check out our 1:1 Information page, which includes a program overview, policies, content filtering information, privacy information, and other useful information for students, parents/guardians, and teachers.  

News

Summer Technology Update

Between the craziness of the end of the school year and a week with my four-year-old between the end of preschool and the start of day camp, I haven’t managed to post for a while.  I have much more coming, but here’s a quick update of what’s happening in the ICCSD technology & innovation department this summer. 

New Building Deployments

One of our big projects for the summer is preparation for the Fall, 2017 openings of Liberty High School and the new Hoover Elementary School.  These projects are coming along – Liberty in particular looks close to completion – and we’ve been working to make sure that the technology is set to go in both buildings.  The wired network is basically complete at Liberty, and wireless access points will go up soon throughout the building.   Continue reading Summer Technology Update →

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CoSN Conference Update

There are few things that I find more draining than professional conferences.  Not long ago, in a discussion with a friend of mine who is also in the ed tech field, I mused that I’m more exhausted after a day full of conference sessions, networking, and lectures than I am after a day spent shoveling landscape rock.  While the latter is definitely harder work, I’m pretty convinced that the former is more exhausting.  As this year’s Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) conference wraps up in Chicago, this belief has been reinforced.   Continue reading CoSN Conference Update →

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Maximizing our Financial Resources

As we seek to expand the technology tools and infrastructure available to our students and teachers, we must also cope with one of the key realities of this investment: technology is expensive.  On one hand, of course, the cost of technology has consistently declined over the past three decades; the word processors of the 1980s frequently cost more than $2,000, for instance.  The drop in technology prices has been closely tied to the increasing ubiquity of and reliance on technology within our schools and society at large; in other words, while prices may be dropping, the amount of technology that must be purchased continues to increase.   Continue reading Maximizing our Financial Resources →