I do have questions and comments that might be of general interest, so
here goes:

When it comes to Internet bandwidth, the entire supervisory union is now
sharing one Internet connection through ENA.  I can tell you how much of
that pipe we're using in the aggregate, but if each school reports that as
their usage, that would paint a distorted picture unless you know it's an
aggregated figure, and the survey never asks about that.  I have no idea
how much of that pipe each school is using, and no way to measure it now
that school is out.  So do I guess for each school (it would be a pretty
wild guess, probably just assume the same data rate per enrolled student),
or report the aggregated figure?

"Is Internet access available to the public?"  We have a guest WIFI
network, it's encrypted, so the public can (and do) use it, but only if
they ask for, and are given, the password.  Is that public enough for the
purpose of the question, or not?  A later question asks if we have open
WIFI, that's clearly no, but for the earlier question, I'm not as sure
what's defined as public.  By the way, the instructions on some questions
refer to prior question numbers, but the question numbers didn't print on
the copies I made so I can answer the questions I can before passing these
on to the Principals to answer the ones about personnel, training, etc.






Bob Wickberg
Technology Coordinator
Brattleboro Union High School District # 6
802-451-3418



School Information Technology Discussion <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Hello folks:
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>
>As pointed out here, I have been amiss at my communications via School IT
>around the tech survey.  I apologize. We have had a couple of snafus with
>the survey  and so I hesitated going wide with it on School IT until we
>got it worked out.  I also left town to attend my SETDA meetings in
>Atlanta at the same time that it went out via the Weekly Field Memo last
>week.  I have been fielding some questions from afar and indicating to
>folks to wait until today to get back in and continue the survey.  I
>apologize profusely to wasting folks time on the issue that would not let
>it complete.   I know you are busy this summer.    
>
> 
>
>First of all, the survey, some instructions, a pdf of the full survey,
>and deadline, etc. (July 31, 2014) are all located here:
>
>[ http://education.vermont.gov/educational-technology/tech-survey
>]http://education.vermont.gov/educational-technology/tech-survey
>
> 
>
>Second:  I waited until summer, because in the past we had some debate
>here on this list and internally about when best to collect so we had the
>most accurate data for the longest period.  This seemed to fall in that
>window.  Since then I have had some feedback that with some of the school
>staff gone some questions have been harder.  Honestly struggle with which
>time is best.   That said, your help on this is crucial.  This data,
>especially all the stuff on devices, broadband, systems, etc. is
>something that is constantly referenced and inquired about from all
>avenues of state government, press, other schools, etc.   I want to
>reflect the most accurate picture so we can focus on what is needed.  
>
> 
>
>Third:  I don’t want to discourage you from connecting to the Weekly
>Field Memo, but I also think that most of the tech community will get the
>same information here at School IT if I simply do post it.  WFM is a good
>resource, you can also find the memo on the AOE web page as well.  It
>usually goes out Wednesdays.   
>
> 
>
>Call if you need help, I will be out of the office a bit this month, both
>on work and a vacation,  but I will put someone as a point person.   I
>can also be reached via my office phone remotely when I am not in the
>office and could assist if folks really get stuck.   Do your best, I can
>also extend the deadline a bit if there are compelling reasons to do so. 
>This survey in the past has been completed by a large majority of
>schools, I know this community does great at managing these requests. 
>
> 
>
>Thanks for your patience.    Hope your summer is going well.  Keep cool. 
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>Peter Drescher
>
>Education Technology Coordinator
>
>Vermont Agency of Education
>
>Transformation and Innovation Division
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>219 N. Main St. Suite 402, 
>
>Barre VT 05641
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>Ph.: 802.479.1169
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