Students are not allowed to have e-mail accounts on the network. No none is allowed to install any program except the network staff. Most fileserver management, including Web pages and Web serving, is handled centrally by network staff without teachers or librarians being allowed direct access. As we seek to broaden the percentage of teachers who employ new technologies to support classroom learning on a daily or weekly basis, network reliability is a critically important issue. While early adopters may have a high tolerance for surprise and disappointment, late adopting, skeptical teachers have almost no tolerance for unreliable networks and may use breakdowns as a rationale for holding back.
Small problems grow into large ones.
Crisis management becomes the main way of operating. Failure to staff adequately undermines the value of the huge investment made in computers and networking. Curriculum Value A network is only half a product. It is a bit like plumbing. Those districts who offer nothing on the desktop other than software and the Internet will face serious skepticism on the part of teachers.