Page 179 - Technology Plan ICT Review

Evergreen Planning Feedback
Currently central pooled technology resources have established equity and standards across the district. This includes the purchase and installation of student workstations, coordinator workstations, file servers, network wiring and switching equipment. This central pool also supports and maintains district software licensing programs and Internet access for each school. Now that district wide technology equity has been established, it is time to plan for the future maintenance and evergreening of technology at each school. All principals were met with on a individual basis (April-May 2004) to review the technology budget. All principals were given the opportunity to provide feedback on developing a sustainable cost effective evergreening solution for the
school district. Refer to the feedback provided below:
Currently district wide we have over 500 workstations to maintain. (Note: Refer to school inventory reports for exact school specific figures.)
Questions and Principal Feedback
How many years are required to evergreen staff workstations at your school?
•Our workstations are top notch presently.
years yet... I believe the only computers that should be upgraded more often are the office ones.
•I would like to see staff workstations replaced very 4 – 5 years. •Ideally 3 years, realistically 4 years 5 years max.
•About 4 years.
•This should be at the discretion of the director of technology. •A minimum every three years. We feel two schools per year.
Our lab should do us for five or more
Schools
Classrooms
Lab 1
Lab 2
Staff
Servers
AJSH
21
30
30
30
3
MRE
30
20
2
SDE
30
30
2
DBE
30
30
30
25
3
NDE
24
30
30
2
NDH
12
30
25
25
3
District
15
7
Total
500+
•Within the current budget structure the technology budget can only evergreen two school labs and one server per school year.
•Clearly identified ICT/CTS planning at the school level will drive the technology maintenance for the years to come.
•All servers will be replaced and upgraded over the next four years.
•All networking switching equipment will be upgraded over the next six years in order to
optimize SuperNet functionality.
•The warranty on all PC workstations will be complete in the next three years. •The main driving forces for upgrading or replacing PC workstations are:
•The current hardware can’t run the most current operating system.
•The current hardware can’t run required school programs.
•The cost of maintaining and repairing the equipment becomes costly and
time consuming.
•Staff expressing concerns about the speed and crashing issues.
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