Sunday, October 15, 2006
Planning & Budgeting
Kid Witness News
Panasonic provides grant opportunities for schools to run a KWN (Kid Witness News) program. Please review the web site below and share your thoughts about us getting a grant application under way right now. Currently Maplewood, Brouillet, and Firgrove have active grants with the KWN program in our district. It would be great if we could get this program in place to start off the year, but I'm not sure if they will let us get it together while Carson is under construction.
http://www.panasonic.com/meca/kwn/index.html
Please share your thoughts and interest about pursuing the grant in the comments section.
Working Tech Budget
I have done a little work putting costs together on our tech budget planning Excel chart. Please go to the file download page and download the latest Carson Elem.xls document. Once you open it, there are three views (bottom left corner) that show varied proposed costs for different student workstation combinations. I need to meet with Chris Tillman for ITC to get prices for the yellow areas. Also, the budget does not include tax at this time. Please review carefully and let me know of any errors or omissions. I have not made a budget with proposals for a combination of desktop and laptop machines for classrooms or considered the needs of various grade levels. Definately lots more for us to talk about soon.
http://homepage.mac.com/erdly/FileSharing2.html
I really like the idea of ceiling mounting a bright high lumens video projector in the cafeteria area to project on the large screen on the stage. I am sure the contracters will need to know about this soon for wiring purposes so we will have to think through how and where we want access for hooking up a laptop or DVD player to the system. Sound access should also be located at the same source. We can look over the plans for that area at our next meeting. I will post some proposed dates as soon as I can meet with Chris Tillman and get some more of the costs filled in on the budget proposals.
Panasonic provides grant opportunities for schools to run a KWN (Kid Witness News) program. Please review the web site below and share your thoughts about us getting a grant application under way right now. Currently Maplewood, Brouillet, and Firgrove have active grants with the KWN program in our district. It would be great if we could get this program in place to start off the year, but I'm not sure if they will let us get it together while Carson is under construction.
http://www.panasonic.com/meca/kwn/index.html
Please share your thoughts and interest about pursuing the grant in the comments section.
Working Tech Budget
I have done a little work putting costs together on our tech budget planning Excel chart. Please go to the file download page and download the latest Carson Elem.xls document. Once you open it, there are three views (bottom left corner) that show varied proposed costs for different student workstation combinations. I need to meet with Chris Tillman for ITC to get prices for the yellow areas. Also, the budget does not include tax at this time. Please review carefully and let me know of any errors or omissions. I have not made a budget with proposals for a combination of desktop and laptop machines for classrooms or considered the needs of various grade levels. Definately lots more for us to talk about soon.
http://homepage.mac.com/erdly/FileSharing2.html
I really like the idea of ceiling mounting a bright high lumens video projector in the cafeteria area to project on the large screen on the stage. I am sure the contracters will need to know about this soon for wiring purposes so we will have to think through how and where we want access for hooking up a laptop or DVD player to the system. Sound access should also be located at the same source. We can look over the plans for that area at our next meeting. I will post some proposed dates as soon as I can meet with Chris Tillman and get some more of the costs filled in on the budget proposals.
# posted by Unknown : 9:43 PM
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Nice job of presenting the Technology work. Some thoughts to consider:
1. Panasonic Grant: It might be worth noting on the application that all three schools we are drawing from currently have and use the CCTV (Firgrove, Brouillet, and Zeiger). It would simply be a continuation of the students' current program.
2. Pricing/Models: In addition to asking Chris Tillman about certain pricing, you might also want to consider if she has certain recommendations as to which equipment (printers, etc.) is purchased. I might be off, but the recommended-and purchased- printers for Spinning were almost double the price that is listed on the Carson spread sheet.
1. Panasonic Grant: It might be worth noting on the application that all three schools we are drawing from currently have and use the CCTV (Firgrove, Brouillet, and Zeiger). It would simply be a continuation of the students' current program.
2. Pricing/Models: In addition to asking Chris Tillman about certain pricing, you might also want to consider if she has certain recommendations as to which equipment (printers, etc.) is purchased. I might be off, but the recommended-and purchased- printers for Spinning were almost double the price that is listed on the Carson spread sheet.
# posted by 
: 9:06 AM
: 9:06 AM
I will check into the printer models some more with Chris. I also went to HPs web site and reviewed the choices they offered before linking model #s to the proposed draft price list. Thoughts to consider are speed, use, extra tray, duplexing option (2 sided printing), and color vs. b/w (the cost difference is becoming negligable these days). I hope to have a broader list for our group's next meeting to review pros/cons.
A lab is a very valid discussion point. The ratios were put on the chart to see how close our budget would take us to achieving intended student to computer ratios based on the allocation plan for this year across the district. Let's keep all of those great ideas on the table along with considerations for intended use, location, management, ratios, and availability/access. Thanks for the good feedback!
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A lab is a very valid discussion point. The ratios were put on the chart to see how close our budget would take us to achieving intended student to computer ratios based on the allocation plan for this year across the district. Let's keep all of those great ideas on the table along with considerations for intended use, location, management, ratios, and availability/access. Thanks for the good feedback!
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