Educational Technology Services
All students can become productive, fulfilled, inquisitive citizens who are an asset not only to themselves, but to their communities. Our challenge is to enhance the lives of students by motivating them to learn and grow through whatever resources technology can provide.
Technology Plan
During the 2011-2012 school year a team of teachers, administrators, and staff partcipated in a technology visioning and planning process. The work of this group helped guide our updated technology plan.
| Attachment | Size |
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| ZPSTechnologyPlan2012-2015.pdf | 566.13 KB |
Training opportunites
There are many training opportunities available. We are in the process of compiling the various resources and will list them here:
Students
Parents
Staff
Internet safety
Net Cetera
Chatting With Kids About Being Online, OnGuard Online gives adults practical tips to help kids navigate the online world.
Lightspeed Internet content filter
Parents can get similar protection to what the school district is using by pointing a home computer at Lightspeed System's hosted filter for free. Details at: www.lightspeedguide.com.
OpenDNS: Household Internet Filtering
"Keeping your family safe online has never been easier. OpenDNS gives you more than 50 filtering categories to choose from. Simply check the boxes of the categories you want to block and watch your filtering take effect within minutes." http://www.opendns.com/solutions/household/
FBI Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge
The FBI Safe Online Surfing (FBI-SOS) Internet Challenge is an interactive online program designed to help teach students and parents about Internet safety. The goal of the program is to ensure that participants can recognize and avoid potential dangers associated with the internet, email, chat rooms and social networking sites. The FBI-SOS Internet Challenge is available on the web at www.fbi-sos.org.
Services
Purchasing
We handle all purchases of hardware and software. This allows us to maintain an accurate inventory, reduce un-needed purchases, and get education pricing. Please follow this process for purchases:
- Submit purchase request to the Technology Director via email or the technology online work system (http://whd.zps.org).
- Technology Director reviews request and seeks any additional clarification.
- Request is approved or denied.
- Purchase is made using appropriate budget.
- Software/hardware is received, inventoried, and delivered.
Online Services
- Infinite Campus - Student Information System
- Moodle
- Google Apps
- Email - GroupWise
- Web sites
- Survey tool
- Group collaboration space
- Calendars
- Email mailing lists
Network Services
- Fiber wide area network (WAN)
- Local area networks (LAN)
- File storage and backup
- Shared file storage
- Individual file storage
- Network applications
- VPN
- Firewall
- Internet content filtering
Policies
| Attachment | Size |
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| 2012-04-12-acceptable-use-policy.pdf | 48.23 KB |
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