Thank you for all your reponses,
Carol Brown
East Carolina University
browncar@mail.ecu.edu
1. What is the one most important issue facing the school technology =20
coordinator in our state? =20
Security....both desktop and network. With the increase in malicious =
code
designed to infiltrate desktops, we=92re having to=20
focus our resources on training teachers and staff to safegaurd their
hardware and software. At the infrastructure level,=20
we=92re finding that limited staff have a difficult time staying =
abreast of
antivirus software development changes. Limited=20
financial resources have a severe impact on our ability to provide the
proper level of protection needed.
2. What is the one most important issue facing the library media =
coordinator
in our state? =20
Flex scheduling.=20
3. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of your =
library =20
media program? =20
Dedicated media coordinators willing to adapt to new demands.=20
4. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of the =
technology
program in your school? =20
diligence and perseverance=20
Leonard Reaves, Director =20
Technology and Media Services =20
Lenoir County Public Schools =20
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1. What is the one most important issue facing the school technology =20
coordinator in our state? =20
Answer: Budgets to provide for hardware and people to handle the =20
technical and instructional segments of technology. It is impossible =
to =20
get new hardware without the technical support and people for =20
instructing teachers and students.=20
2. What is the one most important issue facing the library media =20
coordinator =20
in our state? Being able to focus on being a media specialist, which =20
includes: 1) previewing, purchasing and processing materials, 2) =20
teaching research skills, and 3) promoting reading for pleasure. This =
is a problem because many times I am expected to do all the technology =
and media specialist work. Both programs are suffering because my =
time, =20
energy and patience is split. We also have problems promoting reading =
for pleasure when so much is being done with reading instruction and =20
Accelerated Reader that does not promote pleasure reading. Students =
are =20
burning out way too early on reading because of this.=20
3. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of your =20
library =20
media program? I am on a full flexible schedule and am able to plan =20
appropriate lessons with teachers at the appropriate time in their =20
instruction. Having a flexible schedule does not make my job easier by =
=20
any means. It does make the media center and me as the media =
specialist =20
function as the hub of the school with resources that promote =20
information literacy, rather than a drop-off/babysitting/planning =20
service for teachers. It has enhanced the opinion of the media center =
and its resources.=20
4. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of the =20
technology =20
program in your school? We are still struggling because 1) the =
hardware =20
comes, then there is not software to use on it, 2) they change network =
programs and it has global effects that were not well planned out, =20
causing public relations nightmares with the teachers and students and =
3) technical support does not match the hardware purchased. At this =20
time the thing that could best help it would be communication between =20
the district office/teachers/technicians/administrators so there is a =20
clear plan in place that has provided input from all those involved.=20
Martha Hayes
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What is the one most important issue facing the school technology
coordinator in our state? =20
=20
Money and, by extension, resources. This is followed by clearly defined
responsibilities and adequate time to do them. =20
=20
2. What is the one most important issue facing the library media =
coordinator
in our state? =20
=20
This is a knotty problem. LMCs have been =93abused=94 by having to do =
the
technology leadership and support at their schools=20
and have dropped many important library media functions as a result. =
Sadly,
this has been done with the wholehearted=20
sanction of school leadership at both the school and district level. As =
we
acquire on site technology coordinators, it will=20
place LMCs in conflict with the new technology coordinator UNLESS the
library media person moves into this position.=20
Librarians have, in many cases, become the superheros of the school=92s
technology capabilities.=20
=20
Where do we as librarians, stand? Over the last decade, librarians who
filled this dual role have given only a prefunctory=20
glance at what we were =93supposed=94 to be doing with the NCDPI =
guidelines and
did what had to be done with the=20
technology instead. Now that relief may be at hand, we are =93waking =
up=94 to
discover that we are way behind and that=20
information access has been transformed on the side we have neglected =
far
too long. So, while being relieved of the=20
technology support burden, we must step into a catchup role on the =
library
media side. We have new formats (What do I do=20
with ebooks???)and new information access to address. Worse, we have =
been
asleep at the wheel when it comes to learning=20
how to budget for these things. Only library media personnel who have =
been
recently trained have a prayer of being trained=20
in what is important and how to budget for this so that we adequately
support the curriculum with information access.=20
=20
I used to be a high school librarian who emphasized library media =
skills
instruction for information access way beyond the=20
=93research paper=94. I have been away from that setting for a decade =
and I
would not have a clue as to how to start back with=20
skills instruction for high school students now. Further, I would be =
able to
get few regular high school teachers to give up 3=20
days of instruction in a row for me to teach Special Reference Tools, =
for
example. Most teachers would be afraid of the=20
impact on their EOGs!!
=20
3. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of your =
library
media program? =20
=20
The support of a great principal and a =93can do=94 attitude. =20
=20
4. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of the =
technology
program in your school? =20
=20
The support of a great principal who has embraced technology and sees =
its
potential in education. =20
=20
=20
Who says?? =20
=20
Kaye M =93Holli=94 Hollifield =20
yourfavoritelibrarian =20
Pumpkin Center Middle School =20
3980 King Wilkinson Road =20
Lincolnton, NC 28092=20
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I am at the central office level so my answers may be different from =20
those of school personnel. I did forward your request on to our =20
school media people and technology (1) people. =20
1. The most important issue facing the school technology =20
coordinator is funding the position to have a school technology =20
coordinator. Our schools do not have such a person, the media =20
coordinator does double duty. =20
2. The most important issue facing the library media coordinator is =20
=94time=94. The media coordinators are doing library and technology =20
work in most schools. As we use technology more and more, they have =20
to respond to needs to issue it, fix it, demo it, inventory it, =20
etc. This take away time from the other media responsibilities. =20
3. Our principals support their media people in every one of our =20
schools. =20
4. We hired a technology facilitator to work in the elementary =20
schools with some federal money.=20
Also, when the state did away with the 3-5 units of credit for =20
teacher certification renewal, they dealt the technology program a =20
hard blow. It is hard to get teachers to attend staff development =20
training when it is no longer required, but yet we want them to use =20
more technology.=20
Good luck with your survey. I will look forward to your article, =20
and I would like to see your survey results too. =20
June=20
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What is the one most important issue facing the school technology =20
coordinator in our state?=20
NCWISE/funding.=20
2. What is the one most important issue facing the library media =20
coordinator =20
in our state?=20
Keeping the hardback alive while embracing the softcopy.=20
3. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of your =20
library =20
media program?=20
Technology.=20
4. What one thing has contributed the most to the success of the =20
technology =20
program in your school?=20
Teacher=92s who are willing to try new things.=20
Barry Pace =20
Director of Technology =20
McDowell County Public Schools =20
334 South Main Street =20
PO Box 130 =20
Marion, NC 28752 =20
bpace@mcdowell.k12.nc.us =20
http://www.mcdowell.k12.nc.us=20
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Budget is the most pressing issue=97contributes to outdated print =
collections,
in adequate resources to meet the=20
curriculum needs of the school, and limits a positive =93fill rate=94 =
because of
lack of depth in collection
NC WISE OWL is probably one of the most valuable contributions to =
success
media programs because it=20
supplies resources at no cost to individual schools.
Other factors that contribute to successful media programs is LSTA =
grants,
AASL support materials, and the=20
new MCPAI instrument.
JBudget is the most pressing issue=97contributes to outdated print
collections, in adequate resources to meet the=20
curriculum needs of the school, and limits a positive =93fill rate=94 =
because of
lack of depth in collection
NC WISE OWL is probably one of the most valuable contributions to =
success
media programs because it=20
supplies resources at no cost to individual schools.
Other factors that contribute to successful media programs is LSTA =
grants,
AASL support materials, and the=20
new MCPAI instrument.
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