Original New Hampshire School Technology Survey
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Name of Person Completing Survey |
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Email Address of Person Completing Survey |
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School Website Address |
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Website Address for District Technology Plan |
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Number of Classrooms in School Building (This includes special education classrooms, but not media centers, computer labs, offices, etc.) |
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Number of Classrooms in Question 5 above with Internet access |
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Total Number of Computers in Labs |
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Total Number of Computers in Media Center |
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Number of Computers for Administration Purposes Only |
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How many CD/Multimedia computers of each type does your school building have? Fill in all boxes. Please include all school computers: administrative, classroom, lab and library. Note that levels C and D were combined in last year's survey. Level B Pentium/Power PC -- 16-32 Mb RAM -- Win 95-98/Mac OS 7.6 Level C Pentium II/Mac G3 -- 32-64 Mb RAM -- Win 95-98/Mac OS 8.x Level D Pentium III/Mac G4 or better -- 64 Mb RAM or better -- Win 98/Mac OS 9.x or better |
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Level B - Mac |
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Level B - PC |
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Level C - Mac |
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Level C - PC |
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Level D - Mac |
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Level D - PC |
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How does your school deal with the technical maintenance and/or technical support of hardware? Check all that apply. Please use this question to respond to issues of hardware maintenance, but use questions 32 and 33 to respond to issues of staff technology skills and effective use of software in the educational setting. Do not include personnel committed to full-time teaching, except in the first response. |
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Support provided by staff and students without specific compensation School has part-time, for technology only, contracted services School has full-time, for technology only, contracted services School has a part-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has at least one full-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has a program for provding technical support by students School technology support is provided by district personel who are servicing multiple buildings |
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What other digital tools are used in your school? |
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Cable Television Digital Cameras Digital Video Camcorders Drives CD-RW Drives DVD-R Drives DVD-RW Graphing Calculators Interactive Whiteboards (e.g., Smartboard) Keyboard tools (e.g., Alpha Smarts, Dream Writer) LCD Projectors Mobile Computer Labs - not wireless Mobile Computer Labs - wireless PDAs (e.g., Palm, Handspring, etc.) Robotics Kits (e.g., Lego Logo) Scanners Science Tools (e.g., probes, microscopes) Synchronous, Multi-point Video Conferencing Units (e.g., Zydacron, PictureTel) Telephone Access within Classrooms |
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How are the majority of your instructional rooms connected to the Internet? |
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not applicable / no connection LAN (local area network) only (within the building) WAN (wide area network) only (to other buildings) Both LAN and WAN |
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What type of connection do the majority of rooms in Question 13 have? |
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not applicable / no connection Dial-up access 56Kb Internet access High-speed Internet (e.g. ISDN,T1, ATM, cable) No-cost high-speed Cable connection |
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Are any of your computers using wireless connections? |
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Yes No |
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What networking system does your school use? |
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Not applicable - no network Appleshare LANtastic Novelle NT Unix |
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What is the name of your Internet Service Provider? |
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Does your school provide email accounts for your students? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school allow students to check individual student web-based email accounts, such as Yahoo or Hotmail accounts, at school? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school allows student email communication using a teacher's email account? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school provide group email accounts to students for class projects? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school provide email accounts for all staff? |
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Yes No |
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Is there a district policy or expectation for teachers to conduct school business via email? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school provide remote access for any of the following? |
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Students have access to their school email Students have access to their school server documents Teachers have access to their school email Teachers have access to their school server documents |
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Is your school filtering Internet content? Please check all that apply. |
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The district has made the decision not to use software or hardware filters While there has been no district decision on filtering, we currently do not have a software or hardware filter We use CSM Proxy We use Cyberpatrol We use Microsoft Proxy We use Net Nanny We use Netscape Proxy We use Sonic Wall We use Surfwatch Internet Service Provider (ISP) does the filtering We use WebSense |
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If you filter, do you retain the log files? |
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Yes No |
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Please indicate whether your school is engaged in distance learning via email correspondence. Check all that apply. |
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For students For staff Connectivity available, but not yet utilized Not applicable |
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Please indicate whether your school is engaged in distance learning using Internet content (e.g., Connected University). Check all that apply. |
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For students For staff Connectivity available, but not yet utilized Not applicable |
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Please indicate whether your school is engaged in one to one, two-way, real time video conferencing for distance learning (e.g., CUSeeMe). Check all that apply. |
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For students For staff Connectivity available, but not yet utilized Not applicable |
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Please indicate whether your school is engaged in synchronous, multi-point (one to many or many to many), real-time video conferencing (e.g., GSDLN) distance learning. Check all that apply. |
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For students For staff Connectivity available, but not yet utilized Not applicable |
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How does your school provide staff support for effectively using applications software? Check all that apply. |
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Support provided by staff and students without specific compensation School has part-time, for technology only, contracted services School has full-time, for technology only, contracted services School has a part-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has at least one full-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has a program for provding technical support by students School technology support is provided by district personel who are servicing multiple buildings |
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How does your school provide staff support for applying curriculum integration strategies? Check all that apply. |
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Support provided by staff and students without specific compensation School has part-time, for technology only, contracted services School has full-time, for technology only, contracted services School has a part-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has at least one full-time, for technology only, in-school, technical support person on staff School has a program for provding technical support by students School technology support is provided by district personel who are servicing multiple buildings |
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Are the majority of support services (i.e., hardware, applications, and curriculum integration) provided by the same person? |
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Yes No |
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Does your school provide teachers with regular out-of-class preparation time during their scheduled day for learning and integrating technology into the curriculum? |
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Yes No |
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What types of on site technology-related professional development (provided through the district) did your teachers participate in during the previous academic year? Check all that apply. |
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Basic introduction to hardware/software applications Multi-day courses run by public or private technology training organizations, e.g., NHDOE Marco Polo training On-site visits to technology-using classrooms On-line distance learning professional development courses, e.g., Connected University, Tech Tutor In-school, one-on-one professional mentoring on a consistent or just-in-time basis Collaborative team-teaching opportunities with technology proficient instructors, e.g., FreshPond or ICET Action research oriented projects Research using the Internet on a regular basis Data driven decision making |
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What percent of your teachers are at LoTi stages 0, 1, or 2? |
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zero under 30% 31% to 80% over 81% |
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What percent of your teachers are at LoTi stages 3, 4a, or 4b? |
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zero under 30% 31% to 80% over 81% |
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What percent of your teachers are at LoTi stages 5 or 6? |
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zero under 30% 31% to 80% over 81% |
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What student information system software do you use for tracking enrollment? |
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None used or done without computers Applied Educational Systems (AES) Campus America, e.g., Jenzabar, Poise Custom spreadsheet or database, e.g., Access, Appleworks, AS 400, Clarisworks, Excell, Filemaker Pro MacSchool MMS Nordex OSIRIS Power School Rediker, e.g., Administrators Plus, School Administrator, Odyssey SASSY WinSchool |
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Is your library on an automated system? If "yes" please indicate the product. |
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Not automated Follett Winnebago |
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Tell us any additional information about school technology which you believe is important for the NH Department of Education to know. |