<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[West Des Moines Community Schools Technology]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://wdmtech.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Brian Abeling]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://wdmtech.wordpress.com/author/wdmtech/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Technology Planning Meetings]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><a href="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="5000" data-permalink="https://wdmtech.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/technology-planning-meetings/stop-sign/" data-orig-file="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg" data-orig-size="1694,1133" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D40X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1186338497&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;45&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="stop-sign" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=1024" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5000" src="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=300&#038;h=201" alt="stop-sign" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=300&amp;h=201 300w, https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=600&amp;h=402 600w, https://wdmtech.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/stop-sign.jpg?w=150&amp;h=100 150w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>During the past month, we’ve had several rounds of technology planning meetings – each focusing on how we can provide more resources directly into the hands of students.  Although our school district has no current plan to provide a device for all students (known as 1:1), we are looking at how we can make changes to our current expenditures to provide more resources directly to students.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Much of the discussion was about the elimination or changing of existing resources &#8211;  hence, the picture of the stop sign, a we are talking about what things we can stop doing in order to afford desired changes.  Among the discussions:  elimination of Microsoft SharePoint, moving from Microsoft Exchange to Google for email, and moving to on-line storage through Google Drive. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:small;">The feedback from the meetings is being reviewed now and within the next week we’ll be publishing the list of upcoming changes for technology services.</span></div>
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