Timeline for 1:1 Integration

 

Research and study—August 2004 through April 2006

 

Program design—March 2006-April 2006

 

Intra-structure development:  The following events will take place at Douglass Schools in the next 17 months.

 

By August 1st, 2006 we will provide all buildings in the district with wireless access at a cost of $12,200.  The cost will include $9,000 for 45 access points and $3200 for 4 switches that will provide power to the access points (Power Over Ethernet or POE).  Wiring will need to be run during the summer of 2006 for all access points to be installed including those to be added by August 1 of 2007.

 

15 Access points will be added (at a cost of $3000) in the next 12 months in order to accommodate student laptops purchased for the 1:1 initiative.  These will be added in order to have one in each of the classrooms in the HS and MS. 

 

75 laptops will be purchased or leased July 1st of 2006 for teacher use.  Approximate total cost of $75,000.

 

Approximately 300 laptops will be leased July 1st of 2007 for grades 9-12 at an approximate cost of $100,000 per year.  An additional 150 will be leased July 1st of 2008 for grades 7-8 at an approximate cost of $50,000 per year.  The additional 150 could be added in the middle of the 2007-2008 school year if the transition to the 1:1 9-12 is relatively trouble free.

 

With the constant changes and improvements in software, and upgrades to Follett library software in the summer of 2006 and Sapphire student management software in the Summer of 2007, our overall operating system will need to be updated.  Rather than upgrading our Novell operating system, we will begin migrating over to a Windows environment during the spring of 2006.  The following servers and services will be purchased.

 

A Windows 2003 Domain server will be added in April of 2006 at an approximate cost of $5000 with 450 user licenses at a cost of approx. $3000.  For the 2006-2007 school year, this server will house Prostar, Accelerated Math and Reader, and Meal Tracker software, with student and teacher home directories and the shared folders being moved before the end of the 2006-2007 school year.

 

Novell servers will be phased out during the 2006-2007 school year.

 

DH3 and SE1 presently house Prostar and Accelerated Reader and Math programs and all Meal Tracker programs for the entire district.  SE1 also holds all elementary teacher home directories.  DH4 holds the student home directories and DH5 Holds the MS/HS home directories as well as the shared folder.  SE1, DH3, DH4, having more than fulfilled their life expectancy, will be discarded at the end of the 2006-2007 school year.  DH5 will be upgraded to a Windows 2003 server, possibly housing the WOS Fund Accounting program at Central Office or Accelerated Reader, Math, and Star programs at the Elementary School.

 

A Windows 2003 server will be purchased July 1 of 2006 at a cost of approx. $5000, along with Follett library software.

 

An additional windows 2003 server will need to be purchased prior to July 1st of 2007 to house Sapphire or GoEduStar for the 2007-2008 school year.  The cost of the server will be approximately $5000 and SQL Server Licenses will cost approximately $3500.

Cost Breakdown summary:

District wireless access                                                    $15,200.00

60 access points -- $12,000.00

4 switches -- $3,200.00

Server Upgrades                                                             $15,000.00

3 servers

Licensing -   2 servers                                                       $ 6,500.00

                   Library Update-Follett                                  $17,000.00

Laptops

Purchase 2006-07 75 teacher machines                            $75,000.00

with teacher training

 

Lease Purchase 4yr. Program                                 $100, 000.00 per yr.

350 student machines

Training of trainers – summer 2006

 

Staff immersion training—

Phase 1 – TEACHER TECHSPECTATIONS—April 14, 2006

Phase 2 – Technology distribution to Staff and Initial Training – August 10, 2006

Phase 3 – Technology in the Classroom visits throughout the state by teachers- completed by January 15, 2007

Phase 4 -- Review TEACHER TECHSPECTATIONS

Phase 5 – Classroom Integration Activities

Phase 6 – Lesson plan development

Phase 7 – Summer departmental reviews and practice

 

Dissemination of laptops to students –

Mandatory parent/student meetings-August 7-12, 2007

          Parent and Student sign-off on COMPUTER LOAN AGREEMENT, LAPTOP GUIDELINES, INSURANCE

 

Total technology integration – grades 8-12---2008-09