Robin Smith, an educational technology specialist for the Hollidaysburg (Pennsylvania) Area School District, offers this advice for those encouraging technology use among their school's staff:
* Get support from the top. If your superintendent does not support the push to use technology, and does not use technology himself or herself, it is a hard sell to other employees.
* Make sure you are pushing the district vision and not your own personal agenda.
* Principals need to use technology and support their teachers with extra staff development if necessary.
* Expect bumps in the road. Some things you expect to be a huge success at getting teachers hooked, end up flopping.
* Provide some sort of incentives.
* Show them how it will save time. If the savings won't be apparent for a year, be honest about that. Putting assignments into a grade book program is extra work, but if those assignments can be saved and used next year, it will be a time saver.
* Remember, most teachers are very busy; they're already juggling many tasks. Try to make things as easy as possible, and provide them with time to learn the technology before expecting them to use it.
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