Generally, district productivity software, such as Office, Publisher, Acrobat, etc. are paid out of my technology funds. Teacher requests for specific grade level or department level software comes from their budget. If it is expensive or will cover several dept or grades, I make an exception. Regardless, teachers must complete an official requisition, submit it to the Principal and then to me. I will then have a conversation with the teachers about the purpose of the software and how it fixes into instruction. I had one teacher who wanted to purchase 25 copies of a program at $100 each to do a one day supplimental activity for her class. She thought that I should buy it. She thought differently when she found out it was coming out of her budget. I suggested that she purchase one copy, use a data projector and do it as a class activity. John Kidney Webster City
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How do you guys handle requests from individual teachers for software
purchases? Do you have a process for addressing those? A form? Do you
require teachers to get approvals before purchasing?
C.
Charlton Pendry
Director of Technology and Library Media Services
Fort Dodge Community Schools
104 S. 17th St.
Fort Dodge, IA 50501
Voice: (515) 574-5668
FAX: (515) 574-5324
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