Not all Partnerships are made In Heaven. The study found that the single biggest determiner of success was the skill of the director in communicating project goals. It was determined that to be successful, it was imperative to have one computer per teacher and all computers should be online. Comfort, competence, and creative planning. People in the project also learned it was important for teachers to have time for group interaction where they discuss events in the program and are able to relate successes and failures to one another.
Technical support is crucial and can be creative.
There has to be a crew on hand to keep things running. Skills training is not the curriculum. This is a challenge few training programs have figured out how to achieve. The workshops stressed the need for trainees to communicate to parents, school boards, and the community, the changes in the classrooms brought about through technology. The US West Teacher Network Initiative produced important ripple effects.