Project Management Guide
Technology Management Plan
Technology Resources
Technology Management Plan
Technology Resources
| Technology
resources can include computers, projectors, printers, scanners, and digital
cameras to name a few. It is important that a teacher develop an implementation
plan based on the available technology resources. More often than not a
teacher will have to deal with limited technology resources so they have
to determine ahead of time how to best manage those resources in the classroom.
A variety of options are available to teachers with limited Internet access.
They can rotate students through a computer station giving each student
an opportunity to access information first hand. They can use a projection
system to display the information from one computer system to the entire
class. They can also save images and information on disks to be displayed
on non-Internet computers. Or they can print out material to distribute
to the class or transfer to transparencies to use with an overhead projector. In
some cases, teachers have access to a full computer lab. While it is ideal
to have one student at a computer, this situation also requires a technology
management plan. There may be some aspects of the project that are best
done off line or by one or two students instead of the entire class. Teachers
need to identify the parts of the project that lend themselves to full
class Internet access. |
EXAMPLE: A
teacher would like to use real
time radar images showing current precipitation during her unit on
weather. The only Internet access in the school is in the library but she
has 4 non-Internet computers in her classroom. Each morning before class
she access the latest radar image map using the library computer. She saves
the image on a disk and then back in her classroom copies that image file
on to each of the computers in her classroom. When the students arrive
for class they call up the radar image and look at the weather conditions
for that morning.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
Hardware for Classroom Presentations
Micro Warehouse - Online Computer Catalog
What technology resources do you have available at home?
What activities will require the use of the Internet?
What activities will require the use of computers but not the Internet?
How frequently will you need to use computers and/or the Internet?
How will the availability of technology resources impact the implementation of the project you have selected?
What strategies will you use to successfully implement the project with your available technology resources?
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