EDC638: Data ARP 0.80 Sample Letter

Dear Computer Lab Teacher/Site Tech Support Person,
Several months ago visited you and your lab to get some ideas about how I might want to run my school’s computer lab and hopefully learn from your experiences working at your schools and with the district support folks. At the time I mentioned that I was interested in creating a way to support our common goals to provide the best tech-ed programs for our students and communities and also to find a way to counter-act our tendency to burn out from the workload that we tend to bear. To that end I am creating a web resource that is designed to help us support our staff and students. The reason for this note is to find out what kinds of tech-topics you’d like to see in this resource.

Here’s a list of ideas that I’ve been bouncing around:

List of one-stop web-resources that every lab teacher/tech support person should know,
People/Groups to contact when . . . (contact list)
PDAs in the classroom – Pros and Cons
Making the most of your server resources – or – how I learned to live with NOS
Tips for Mac Users Living in a “PC” World
Tips for PC Users Living with Mac-Envy
Dealing with the one-computer classroom and the teacher who confuses it with a coat-rack
Which is more important: Having enough technology in the classroom or getting teachers trained to use it?
Who do you turn to when you need training?

I am very interested in hearing any and all suggestions for topics and if you’d like to contribute an article on any tech subject (and if writing an article sounds way too scary I’d be willing to do the writing if you would rather “just talk”). Also, if there is enough interest, I am working with a friend to organize periodic “blow-off steam” essions at some local beverage establishment, because getting away from school and the computers is a very good thing.

Joe Bustillos
Twain ES Computer Lab Teacher
jbustillos@lbusd.k12.ca.us

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