Infrastructure

Infrastructure: Access and Enable  (Karen Cator Video) //Goal: All students and educators will have access to a comprehensive infrastructure for learning when and where they need it.//

MVYPS is primarily an Apple District. We are planning: wireless campus, additional bandwidth, one to one furthered by the use of personal devices, guest access. We have:
 * PowerSchool for reporting, student information, scheduling.
 * Casper for device management of computers and portables (iPads).
 * Intermapper for network analysis and
 * Cymphonix for bandwidth and network access management.
 * Sonicwall for content filtering for CIPA compliance.

Infrastructure includes people, processes, learning resources, and policies and sustainable models for continuous improvement in addition to broadband connectivity, servers, software, management systems, and administrative tools.

Internet access devices are continually evolving and today include desktop computers, laptops, netbooks, public access kiosks, mobile phones, portable digital players, and wireless readers. Some schools are allowing students to use their own devices.
 * Passage Middle School, Va., decided that he might be on to something. Hoping to capitalize on students’ excitement when allowed to use their cell phones in school, he instituted Phone Fridays in math class and challenged students to come up with ways to use their phones to enhance learning.

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain range from podcasts to digital libraries to textbooks, games, and courses, and they are freely available to anyone over the Web.
 * MIT’s decision to launch the OpenCourseWare

Cloud Computing, GoogleDocs is a great example, reduces the number of servers and expensive software.

**Education resources & services** (open & proprietary) digital textbooks • digital libraries • tutoring systems • simulations • augmented reality • interactive visualization • educational

**Authoring, editing, disseminating & content management** text processing • audio/video capture/edit • programming platforms • blogs• wikis • instructional/course management

**Administrative** scheduling • personnel/HR • plant/facilities management • procurement • attendance • student records

Programs have been developed to make the technical support and troubleshooting a learning experience for students as well as a cost-saving measure.

Professional educator can engage with educators on leveraging technology for improving their professional practice.