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School CIO SUMMERTIME ‘To Do’ List continued from page 33 education technology leaders. CASTLE courses are graduate-level courses, often offered at a distance, based on ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators. It is the only course proven (by the American Institutes for Research) to have a statistically significant impact on participants’ technology leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities. Another highly respected resource for CIO training is the Carnegie Mellon CIO Institute’s Executive Education programs, which focus on managing the technical enterprise via courses that integrate strategy and management with technical expertise. Carnegie Mellon has one of the top IT programs worldwide. The CIO executive program is offered through the university’s school of public policy, and therefore it is well suited to the needs of school district CIOs. Other worthwhile CIO personal development and training programs include the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certifica- www.schoolcio.com tions, which are a set of concepts and techniques for managing IT, and ISACA’s Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT), a best practices framework for IT management. DATA AUDIT School districts accumulate, maintain, and analyze a large volume of data relating to various aspects of their operation. Over the summer, Kate Mullin, a Tampa-based IT systems security expert, recommends that CIOs do a risk assessment and business impact analysis of the data and then look at high-risk data such as financials. Mullin suggests CIOs identify what data is logged, should be logged, and can be logged. CIOs should also study how the data is stored in transmission and at rest and how backups are stored. “The value is in knowing what your data is worth, where it is, and what management decisions can be made based on risk,” says Mullin. “This knowledge can assist in performing a governance function and to make decisions that evidence due diligence.” According to Greg Davis, the Consortium for School Networking resources for determining total cost of ownership and value of investment provide good tools for conducting technology resource audits, such as the one outlined by Mullin, which contribute to technology planning, and lead to the identification of priorities and goals that can inform grant writing. Helpful Resources CASTLE www.schooltechleadership.org/kleaders Helpful Resource CoSN www.cognos.com Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon http://ism.cmu.edu/ CIO-Executive-Education/index.asp SOCIAL NETWORKING/ ONLINE SAFETY Social networking is one of the hottest trends among K–12 students. Currently, the National PTA is collaborating with the Entertainment Software Rating Board to provide information in the form of documents and Webcasts ITIL www.itil-officialsite.com/home/ home.asp ISACA www.isaca.org 34 | A Technology & Learning Publication School CIO May 2008 http://www.schoolcio.com http://www.cognos.com http://www.schooltechleadership.org/kleaders http://ism.cmu.edu/CIO-Executive-Education/index.asp http://www.itil-officialsite.com/home/home.asp http://www.isaca.org

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