1. IEN Overview Annual Superintendents’ Meeting Aug 5th, 2010

2. What is the Idaho Education Network? We are a legislatively mandated virtual private educational network Purpose is to provide an equitable and reliable high-speed level of connectivity for all Idaho public schools to support 21st century collaborative learning environments and increase educational outcomes

3. How are we going to do it? Connect 200 High Schools over three years with ample bandwidth and additional technology Current deployment is 170 Receiving Sites/30 Origination Sites Primary funding through a Statewide E-rate Application-Education Networks of America Video Teleconferencing Systems at each school

4. Who is doing it?

5. IEN Program Resource Advisory Council (IPRAC) IEN Technical Subcommittee Technical Director (208) 332-1840 Brady Kraft Communications Director (208) 332-1842 Garry Lough IEN Organization

6. IEN Project Status Schedule Updates –Directional Changes IEN Advisory Council –New Membership –Organizational Structure

7. Where are we now? 79 schools connected in FY 2010 121 schools left to connect in FY 2011 and 2012 300+ students received courses over video 800+ credits earned over video 250+ Teachers and Administrators trained Established a management system for network Established training for users and teachers Established a search engine for neighboring VTC sites and curriculum

8. IEN Applications To Date Increased efficiency and flexibility for administrators, teachers and students Higher Education classes to Grades 9 to 12 Professional and Workforce Development –Certification, EMT, Fire, Police, Business, E-Commerce, Masters, PhD. Peer to Peer delivery (Intra-district or Inter-district) Supplemental Curriculum, Virtual Field Trips for K-12 –Royal Botanical Gardens, St. Louis University School of Medicine, Royal Tyrrel Paleontology Museum, NASA, Smithsonian, etc… Collaboration, Meetings, Interact with Subject Matter Experts

9. Consumer Centric Model

11. 1-888-612-2880 support@ena.com The NOC Network Operations Center

12. Web-Based Support Center

13. IEN Delivers a Fully Managed Connectivity Service IEN VPN/ Network Backbone Video Teleconferencing and Support

14. Expanded Bandwidth to Schools

17. IEN Adoption (MOU) Open House Presentations with VTC Invite parents to see the system and share your vision Conduct Professional Development and Open House trainings with Teachers Conduct open house meetings with Community Leaders- Police, Fire, Chambers

18. IEN Adoption Community Leaders Open House ISU workforce training Joe Fleischman and Jeff Hough at ISU E-Commerce Training Online Marketing Customer Retention Techniques 208-282-3372 or fleijose@isu.edufleijose@isu.edu

19. IEN Adoption Teacher Proctor Training and Origination Training Andy Lanning 208-861-3773 andy@andylanning.com What does VTC mean to me? Overview of VTC in the class Proctor Training (4hr) Origination Training (16hr)

20. What are our neighbors doing? Wyoming Model–Heavy focus on K-12 to K-12 delivered courses Utah Model—Heavy focus on Higher Education and Dual Credit. –20% of concurrent enrollment credits were earned through distance education. Idaho Model—Expand on their strengths and included community opportunities, PTE, STEM, Graduate Degrees, Emergency Training, etc…

21. Big Picture of the IEN website? We have created a mechanism for schools and providers to find what they need, post what they need, and post what they offer. This search function operates with the same principles and rules as many of the search engines you currently use like Google or Yahoo.

22. Sites Connected

23. Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration

24. Content Providers

25. What does the IEN mean to you?

26. Contact Garry Lough Communications Director 208-332-1842 garry.lough@ien.idaho.gov www.ien.idaho.gov