THE PRACTICE: Support - School leaders must ensure that a technical and pedagogical support system exists that facilitates the use and maintenance of technology in their schools.
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Resources related to this practice:

• Building a Technology Library: The Experts' Choices
  http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech003.shtml

  The Tech Team at Education World makes the search for introductory books on technology less baffling by asking each of their experts to recommend one book he or she considers a teacher's best first resource for technology integration. You'll want to make room on your bookshelf for these!

• Edtechnot.com
  http://www.edtechnot.com/

  This site might be called a meeting of ed tech leaders throughout the world. Its purpose is to bring those who are guiding technology use in schools together to discuss divergent opinions. The site includes information on plans, web logs, books, and ideas related to educational technology.

• Learning with Technology Course Resources
  http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/lwtres/resource.htm

  This site offers a series of resources from the Learning with Technology course of the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium. Topics covered include Advantages and Disadvantages of Different Technologies Tool, Constructive Friends Feedback Form, Engaged and Worthwhile Learning Activities, Examples of Technology Use Tools, Guide for Evaluating Software, and Print Scenario: Project-Based Science.

• Lessons Learned from the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program
  http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/top/publicationmedia/lesson
  s/lessons.htm

  This report presents the initial lessons learned from the Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program (TIIAP) projects that were funded in 1994 and 1995. Lessons learned to date from these TIIAP projects include insights into project planning, the task of selecting the appropriate technologies in a time of rapid change, the importance of developing and maintaining productive community partnerships, and the challenge of securing long-term financial support for the projects.

• Making Technology Happen
  http://www.southern.org/pubs/MTH/makingtech.shtml

  Making Technology Happen: Best Practices and Policies from Exemplary K-12 Schools, published by The Southern Growth Policy Board, addresses findings on best practices in the implementation of technology in schools. This online version of the book reviews how more than 200 exemplary schools are bringing technology into their classrooms. Areas of discussion include planning, training, providing technical support, re-engineering organizations, obtaining resources and evaluating how district, state and federal policies impact the process.

• National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Video Series Through Technology, Media, Materials
  http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/videos/toc.htm

  The National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP) was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs to promote the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities. The video series provides a first hand look at the applications, implications, and benefits of technology integration for the student with special needs.

• Taking TCO to the Classroom: A School Administrator's Guide to Planning for the Total Cost of New Technology
  http://classroomtco.cosn.org/

  The Consortium for School Networking launched its "Taking TCO to the Classroom" project to help school leaders understand the long-term costs involved in building and operating a network of computers.

• Tech Corps
  http://www.ustc.org/

  America's Students Need a Technologically Advanced Education Today To Compete in the Workforce of Tomorrow Not all of our schools have the technological resources to enrich the education of today's students to adequately prepare them for the fierce competition that they will face as members of tomorrow's workforce. TECH CORPS is a national nonprofit that challenges Americans to help build the technology infrastructure of our nation's schools. Today TECH CORPS volunteers are helping put new technologies to effective use in schools and communities across the nation.

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