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IMPORTANT P.O. INFO: P.O.s made out to CalSAVE will be returned for correction. ********************* Make P.O. payable to: JDL Technologies 5555 West 78th St. Edina, MN 55439 Fax PO to CalSAVE: (866) 488-3729 We will fax you confirmation that we received it. (Be sure to include your fax number on your cover sheet!) Click here to learn how to use the CalSAVE site. JDL Technologies  Product Description and Pricing
JDL Technologies realizes that California districts and schools are struggling with the requirement to develop a network infrastructure to support administration and instruction. There is no doubt that schools must help develop students who have the ability to work and live in the information age. Unless schools are equipped with the hardware, software and skills to incorporate network resources into the work-life of administrators and teachers, schools as we know them are at risk for becoming irrelevant. It is a rare district that has the in-house staff to analyze, design and plan networks. Many district and school administrators who have relied on others knowledge to install stable networks have found there are networking problems. Designing a network that is reliable, stable, fast and affordable requires extensive experience. Designing such a network for education takes education-based experience. Why is education-based experience so vital? First, schools demand different amounts and types of resources from networking than businesses. Second, schools use networking different than a business. A business network does not have to accommodate connection to video and highly graphical Internet resources accessed at the top of the hour by 250 people with only fifty minutes available to work with these resources before another 250 students access them all over again. Third, when a lot of money is involved, networking businesses spring up overnight, and fold just as quickly. So, there must be some way to discern who really has experience and who does not. The demand placed on the network has an important human side. Educators, like everyone in the information-age economy are new to technology and networking. Training is limited and time to learn is even more limited. When teachers approach technology with the hope we all have argued for it, the technology must work. To plan instruction around a resource that is unstable or unreliable is instructional suicide. The network must be designed to be fast, reliable and easy to access or educators will find it easy to avoid using it. Anyone would avoid it in similar circumstances. Because each district and school is unique in the way technology is viewed and deployed, the solution can not be a universal on-size-fits-all approach. Individual needs must be matched to resources and local decision-makers should have choices for how best to resolve network infrastructure issues. But, administrators also need knowledge so they can avoid misfiring with one-time money and build an infrastructure that will not have to be replaced or repaired for many years. Intrinsic motivation is greatest when educators can “own” and use their own network. |
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