The "School Technology Survey" Report.

1. Inform and ask permission of your building principal (and the technology coordinator) that you would like to conduct a short survey about instructional technology in your school building.  Have a copy of the survey and explain that while the results are useful, the primary purpose of the project is to collect and analyze data, write a "scholarly document (using APA formatting) of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations.  The primary objective is conduct a "brief" research project (statement of the problem, review of the literature, explain the methodology, report the finding, draw conclusions based on the findings and make recommendations based on the findings).

2. Select between five and ten colleagues who will volunteer to complete the survey.  If more are willing, great.

3. Send the volunteers the web address of the survey.  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=579182825222   You can copy and paste this address in an email message to the volunteers.  Just ask them to click on the address and the survey will/should open in their computer browser, e.g., Explorer, Netscape or Foxfire.

4. Inform the volunteers of the date that you need the survey completed - usually within a couple of days.  Thank them for volunteering.

5. Send me an email explaining when the volunteers will start and end the survey.  This is necessary so I can deleted previous responses from other volunteers.

6. I will send you the results in an MS Excel format.  Review the data and create tables using Excel, where appropriate, to be included in your report.

7. Compose your report with the following sections:

• Title page
• Table of Contents: (Include list of tables)
• Introduction (where, who, when and why)
• Statement of the problem (e.g., "Is our faculty prepared for instructional technology?")
• Findings in three sections:  (include tables of collected data)
  • Use of Technology
  • The Necessary Infrastructure
  • Viable Instructional Strategies
• Conclusions based on the findings
• Recommendations based on the findings
• References

8. The length of document should be on the brief side - a paragraph or two for each section.  Getting permission, formatting, analyzing and reporting the data, making tables, and drawing conclusions, are the primary purposes of this project.

9. When completed, send the document to me as an attachment.  jmckay@hmleague.org