Setting, communicating, and upholding district policies related to accessibility, security, and privacy are of utmost importance to administrators. Are your district’s policies as proactive in regards to technology issues as they could be? Learn more here. To help assess your current technology use and chart a course toward increased technology implementation, consult the EdTech Locator.

 

Related Resources

Acceptable Use Policies

Harvey Barnett, senior research associate at WestEd RTEC, descibes why you must have an acceptable use policy and and what it should contain. Issues addressed in his presentation include CIPA requirements, privledges of use, and enforcement tactics.

TICAL

Assistive Technology Policy Checklist

The items on this checklist can be used as a framework for guiding the development of assistive technology policies. The checklist also can be adapted for use in analyzing existing assistive technology policies or obtaining feedback from stakeholders about the appropriateness of such policies.

NATRI

Bullies in Cyberspace

As the internet plays as increasing role in student life, so has online bullying increased. Read this article to learn how to address "cyberbullying".

District Administration

Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use

ConnSENSE Bulletin

This website provides a variety of resources, articles, legal updates and conference information centered on educational and assistive technology issues.

Copyright Guidelines for Administrators

This matrix can be used to inform school leaders of what they may and may not do under the law with regard to copyrighted material and media. The resource presents examples of technology uses for software installation, password sharing, and DVD showings that are permissible and in violation of copyright law, alongside possible solutions.

techLearning.com

Creating and Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social – and Educational - Networking (PDF)

Share this survey from NSBA with your administration. Discuss how to address the recommendations about school policies and social networking.

Cyber Security at the District Level

This article describes several things to consider in terms of security for a school or district's IT system, as well as the potential consequences of inaction.

American Association of School Administrators

Cyberbullying for Administrators

Demonstrate strong leadership in your school district with a proactive approach towards cyberbullying. Learn how cyberbullying occurs anonymously, which requires new tactics and strategies.

EdTech Locator - Administrators

Use the EdTech Locator to identify where you, your school, or district is located on a continuum of technology integration. Map a course to deepen your technology integration to improve the achievement of all students. In addition, use CITEd's Teacher Self Assessment to help identify your placement on the Ed Tech Locator.

CITEd

Emergency Info Online

Emergency Info Online is dedicated to collecting standards, legislation, resources, and guidance on emergency preparedness and communications for inidividuals with special needs. Keep up to date with the Emergency Alert System requirements and emerging solutions to make your campus and preparedness plans inclusive of all students' and families' needs.

Emergency Management for Schools

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) sponsors Emergency Management for Schools trainings to provide support to school staff and administrators interested in enhancing their preparedness efforts. On this site, viewers can access four one-hour Web casts, each featuring one of the four phases of emergency management: Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. These Web casts can be played in conjunction with the Power Point presentations made available to enhance schools' training experiences.

Financial Literacy & Education Summit Webcast

Watch this webcast to hear from some of our nation’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of financial literacy education. Learn the importance of teaching sound money management skills to students in these unstable times.

Gaming at Oak Park Public Library

Oak Park (Ill.) Public Library has held monthly teen gaming tournaments. This is a video of sights and sounds from the September tourney, as well as an interview with Young Adult Librarian Monica Harris, who explains why and how the library got into gaming and the benefits it offers the library and the community.

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

This Issue Brief urges groups working on children's issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.

Interactive Map of Preparedness Resources

This tool provides an accessible, interactive directory of federal, regional, state, and local disability-related emergency management resources. The map contains information on regional branches of FEMA and ADA&IT Technical Assistance Centers, Governor's websites and state disability resource agencies, a directory of ILCs and SILCs by state, state Citizen Corps and American Red Cross Chapters, as well as links to State and local Emergency Management Agencies.

Mobile Technologies Webinar

Learn how well schools are preparing students for the jobs of the future. Have students mastered new technologies? Are you keeping up?

MPI Data Hub

The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) tracks data and policies related to global migration and immigration to the U.S. See the Data Hub for state reports on numbers and percentages of immigrants and the needs in specific communities. Use the information in your reports, grant writing, and planning.

National Student/Parent Mock Election

Raise awareness about the power of the ballot by actively involving students and parents in a full-fledged campaign and national election, a free program run by the National Student/Parent Mock Election.

Open Educational Resources

OER Commons is the first comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials, share their own, and collaborate on affecting today’s classrooms. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) to create an online experience that engages educators in sharing their best teaching and learning practices.

Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education

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