Your technology planning committee must represent a broad stakeholder group within your community. Stakeholders are those people who have a keen interest in technology planning because it will impact their work or interests. Systems in Alabama must include representation from individuals in the following positions:

• classroom teacher
• administration
• library/media specialists
• parents
• private system personnel (where applicable)

Assembling your planning committee is the first step toward developing a strong local plan. A broad based committee comprised of stakeholders from all areas and levels of the system will serve your planning efforts well. Stakeholders are those people who have a keen interest in technology planning because it will impact their work or interests. These individuals can both help to generate support for your technology initiatives and can provide a means by which constituent interests are represented to the committee.

Writing your system technology plan requires a committee composed of educational technology stakeholders who will actively work to help write the system’s plan. We offer a few tips for forming your technology planning committee:

• Your committee members should represent all aspects of your system community. This means teachers (from a variety of grades and/or subject areas), administrators, parents, community members (e.g., business people), and perhaps students.
• While working by committee may be burdensome, resist the temptation of having a committee of only one or two persons. On the other hand, you don't need a committee that is too large and unmanageable.
• Since the planning process contains many different tasks, you will need members with a variety of skills: curriculum design, professional development, technology infrastructure expertise, experiences with budgetary matters, administrative policy, and process tasks.
• Committee members need to understand that planning, implementation, and integration are on-going processes and are not short-term commitments. The committee members should be willing to assist in technology implementation efforts long after the actual plan is written.

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Last updated,4/4/07