Questionaire for k-12 Internet infrastructure

[}{ans Mueller <Hans.Mueller@COLORADO.EDU>]

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/

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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.

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_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.