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The Technology Coordinator's Handbook was written by two broadly experienced educational technology leaders who offer some powerful professional resources. This selection discusses the ambiguity that exists when defining the position of technology coordinator, and examines real-life technology coordinators with information about their job scope, professional background, and salary range; provides an overview with a rubric for selecting software and also focuses on managing user accounts.

A list of technology coordinators/specialists from all over the U.S. (I did find a tech. coordinator listed from Canada, so it may be an international network) - most people on the list provide a twitter handle as a form of contact, and many of them provide links to their personal website/blog and

Links to various resources such as technology planning, hardware/software resources and evaluation, information about grants and funding, technology use standards for teachers, free online programming resources, etc.

MY Access!® (www.myaccess.com) is a prompt-driven, web-based instructional writing program that scores student responses to prompts/writing tasks nearly instantaneously through advanced artificial intelligence technologies. Through the consistent, time-sensitive scoring of student writing, teachers can conduct early diagnosis, deliver writing assignments more frequently, and monitor writing performance by student and class.

An actual description for the Dixon Unified School District Technology Coordinator job (Dixon, CA.)

There are now a large number of initiatives designed to make laptops with wireless connectivity available to all students in schools. This paper synthesizes findings from research and evaluation studies that analyzed implementation and effects of one-to-one initiatives from a range of countries. Factors related to successful implementation reported in the research include extensive teacher professional development, access to technical support, and positive teacher attitudes toward student technology use. Outcome studies with rigorous designs are few, but those studies that did measure outcomes consistently reported positive effects on technology use, technology literacy, and writing skills.

Not specific to a particular job, but specific in what educators feel the ideal school technology coordinator woud do.

A working description.

by William Sugar and Harold Holloman TechTrends November 2009 http://www.springerlink.com/content/729q81338l57p62w/

An interesting blog created by a technology coordinator.