TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership

Quick Fact:

Junk e-mail, known as spam, accounted for about 83 percent of computer traffic at one point in 2004, and has cost Internet providers about $500 million in wasted bandwidth.
Source:Netscape Technology News

Quote:

The main thing should be our main thing---discovering what the main thing should be--that will take some work.

TICAL is a statewide educational technology service provided by Santa Cruz County Office of Education with funding from the California Department of Education.

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Presentations by Susan Brooks-Young

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Financial Planning 101

In this 9-minute narrated presentation, Susan Brooks-Young shares practical lessons learned about effective financial planning for school or district technology plans. Topics include laying the groundwork for sustainable funding, total cost of ownership, and value of investment.

Presentation (9 minutes)
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Web 2.0 Tools for Busy Administrators

In this 11 minute presentation, author and consultant Susan Brooks-Young provides a quick overview of what Web 2.0 is and then shares a concrete example of how a group of educators in Northern California used an on-line group, a wiki, and a "web-top" word processor to help them complete a collaborative planning process.

Presentation (11 minutes)
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Today's date and time: February 9, 2010, 3:42 am PDT
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