The IlliniCloud is a cooperative of Illinois school districts in Illinois providing cloud services specifically for K12 via three shared data centers in our state. This is a K12 for K12 developed cooperative but with partners from Higher Ed and contracted services for development of certain services. This cooperative helps to provide state of the art computing storage and network resources to all districts regardless of size therefore minimizing the number of servers and network tools that local IT departments are required to manage and support.
A team comprised of students who were trained, and also train other students, to help provide technology support, provides Kuna’s tier one tech support.
Developed in the United Kingdom, the IT Infrastructure Library is a series of documents that are used to aid the implementation of a framework for IT Service Management. This online resource which is extracted from the ITIL Toolkit and providing an overview of the goals, activities and cost benefits of a help desk.
TechSETS provides training, tools and information to assist the growing number of school professionals who are responsible for planning, building, maintaining and using technology systems in education.
This webpage provides the research findings from Project RED’s 2010 large-scale national study to identify and prioritize the factors that make some U.S. K-12 technology implementations perform dramatically better than others.
This is a national research and advisory institute that reports on the current trends and policy efforts that guide educational technology in the US. By describing how school districts, schools, and individual teachers can work together to modernize the learning environment, these reports can be helpful for identifying key strategies to be included during planning and implementation.
STNA is intended to help school-level decision makers administrators, technology facilitators, media coordinators, or technology committee members – collect data to plan and improve uses of technology in teaching and learning activities.
The Digital Learning Rubric provides a means for district or school leadership teams to engage in a process of self-reflection and discussion in order to establish a shared vision for digital learning initiatives. Its intended purpose is to assist in assessing needs and setting goals for the use of technology in the classroom to support student achievement.
Project 24 is a comprehensive district-level technology planning tool that has embedded advice, implementation ideas and tangible suggestions to support district-wide technology planning.
