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Greetings! Sorry for any possible cross posts. The topic of my graduate thesis is a strategy guide for non-technical teachers and administrators who have the charge to install Internet infrastructure technology in their school(s). It is based on a study I did in rural Colorado (Please see: http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~muellerh/cati/WASHYUMA.html) and I hope to prove -or disprove- the need for professional Internet infrastructure personnel, as well as develop a guide for k-12 teachers and administrators who are involved in developing Internet infrastructure. If you have the time in the next few days (I'm defending March 13th), would you be so kind as to answer the following questions as they seem applicable, or even pass them to people that you know who might have answers to these questions? There are questions for both network administrators and teachers; answer all that seem appropriate. My thesis will have a permenant place on Colorado Advanced Technolgy Institute's (CATI) home page once it is finished; it will be found at: http://www.yampa.com/aerie/ Best regards, }{ans Mueller University of Colorado, Boulder http://ucsub.colorado.edu/~muellerh/ ------------------------------------------- Educational Internet Infrastructure Questionnaire Questions for both networking professionals and teachers. Disseminate widely. Please return all answers to Hans.Mueller@Colorado.Edu by Midnight Thursday, March 7, 1996. Thank you in advance for your time. _Survey of RBOC and other scholastic internetworking professionals_ On a scale of one to ten, ten being highest, please rate the following statements. Include comments as necessary. + In regard to the success of the deployment of a scholastic internetworking project, rate the importance of having dedicated networking personnel. + Rate the educational management structure in terms of appropriateness for the development of Internet infrastructure technologies? + Rate the level of understanding of internetworking technologies that teachers and administrators with whom you have worked. + Rate the level of importance of the used of traditional analysis, design and implementation techniques as it relates to the success of a schools internetworking project. ========================== _Survey of teachers and administrators who have experience with developing Internet infrastructure_ Please answer these questions as candidly as possible. Your answers will be anonymous. + At what point was it deemed necessary that a dedicated Internet connection was necessary and how was this surmised? + What resources were helpful in making this decision and what resources were of no use? + What type of administrative guidelines, if any, were established in managing Internet infrastructure, as well as provisions for student accounts? + What level of collaboration took place between your school and other schools in effort to achieve an Internet infrastructure + If a school network planner contacted you about setting up Internet infrastructure in their school, what resources would you point them towards? + Describe your initial Internet infrastructure and any changes it has underwent since it went on line. Were consultants used? Community members? In house experts? Was someone hired to do this work? + What nugget(s) of wisdom would you pass on to teachers and administrators in other schools to help them get started in the process of project development? + Also, any comments you might have about your participation in the CSU, US West or other Internet training workshops, including observations about how other teachers used this training.