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Guidelines for Technology Interview

Choose someone related to technology in your school division. This might include the division technology coordinator, the technology specialist in your building, a computer lab teacher, or the media specialist. Your goal is to get a snapshot of technology use in that particular school or division. You will use your notes/transcript from the interview to write a report describing that snapshot. Please do not just submit a transcript of the interview. While you are welcome to formulate your own questions, your report should include the following information:

Funding: How and where are decisions made about purchasing and deploying technology: at the division level or the school level? And is there a process for teachers to be able to request software or hardware? Who controls the technology budget?

Instruction: What kinds of uses do teacher make of technology either for personal productivity or classroom use? How often do students use computers? Have most teachers met the TSIP standards?

Job Description: While I want you to use pseudonyms for your interviewee, I would like you to give some details about the job title and description. You might also ask them how their job has changed because of technology as well as how they got their job. What experience do they have? Business? Classroom?

Overall Impressions: Is technology making a difference? What areas need to be improved? What areas are successful? What are the barriers to success?