Maintaining services and performance and allowing creativity and individualism can at times be competing mandates. These are often the various roles of the IT and Curriculum departments. So how can the IT department feel like they are providing secure, robust access and at the same time have teachers feel empowered and innovative? For many school divisions, this is the million dollar question. Prairie South School Division has been working at creating an environment where both these perspectives co-exist and have an equal voice. Intense debate and dialog, research and consolation, and exploration characterize the relationship between IT (information technology) and ET (educational technology). No topic or idea is dismissed. This session will attempt to briefly tell the story of what the key ingredients are to establishing this relationship and some specific protocols that help maintain and foster a healthy working environment.

1. ET Call IT
How Educators and Technology Departments can play nice
Barry Stewart
Dean Shareski
Prairie South School Division
Tlt Summit
May 2008

2. Barry Stewart
stewart.barry@prairiesouth.ca

3. Dean Shareski
shareski.dean@prairiesouth.ca

5. Philosophy

6. IT’S ALL ON THE TABLE

7. CC everything

8. We don’t make
educational policy

9. Communicate

10. Text
Tech Support Team

11. Stories

12. Content
Filtering

13. Outside Devices

14. De-Centralized Purchases
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15. Apples and Oranges Windows

16. Can we make this happen?
me: how hard is it to open port 666? Is it like a click of a
button or some weirdly involved coding?
temporarily I mean
stinndler: i have to log into the firewall console
find the right access-list then add the exception to it
all so you can use IRC
me: It's part of Ustream...lots of online presenters use it.
stinndler: how many is lots?
me: I could join one everyday
stinndler: ustream.tv?
me: yep
I'm watching this right now http://www.ustream.tv/channel/
weblogg-ed-tv
It's basically over but just curious
stinndler: so it allows you to ask questions of the
presenter?
me: that and chat with participants
stinndler: checking my firewall logs it looks like it's always
going to the same server
i could potentially open up port 6667 to just that server
that would remove the risk
me: that would be cool
you rock....you knew that right?
stinndler is typing…

17. LMS issues

18. Transparency

19. New Product
Testing
Let’s see if this
thing syncs to
Active Directory

20. Q and A
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