SCRIPT: Welcome to TechSETS—People supporting technology in schools. TechSETS is one four California Statewide Education Technology Services, or SETS, developed by the San Diego County Office of Education with funding from the California Department of Education.
The project offers a collection of free and low-cost technical support resources. TechSETS provides training, tools and information to assist the growing number of school professionals who are responsible for planning, building, maintaining and using technology systems in education.
With the explosive growth in school technology, the need for well-trained technical support staff has been steadily on the rise. The target audience for TechSETS includes site and district technical support staff as well as administrators, school support staff, and teachers. Our easy to use website provides technologists, IT professionals, Chief Technology Officers, and even students many resources such as…
A free, web-based work order management system. An easy yet powerful system for tracking your service requests…
Cost-effective online productivity and technical training…
Access to Gartner research, one of the world’s most highly regarded IT research firms, and other research-based information…
Tools for identifying essential technology skills and job descriptions…
A guide for planning and installing technology infrastructure and much more.
Other resources include Tech Jobs—a listing of California information technology positions currently available in the education sector.
The newest resources block gets you right to what’s new like are next-generation of TechSETS podcasts.
You can also access the latest edition of our quarterly eNewsletter replete with articles about the latest in education information technology matters and interviews with some of California’s leading education IT leaders.
The TechSETS daily is a one-stop resource for all of the latest IT and education technology news. You can either subscribe for free and get a daily email reminder each time a new issue is published or just visit the TechSETS daily at your leisure. Plus, the web application for iOS and android devices gives you access to the TechSETS daily on the go…
One of the most valuable resources offered to TechSETS members is their access to the latest research on information technology. Thanks to our partnership with Gartner, TechSETS regularly summarizes up-to-the-minute research notes and makes them available to all of our members. But what’s more, TechSETS members may request personal copies of the original and full articles published by the leading research firm. After reviewing the summary, simply click the link at the bottom of the page and let us know which article you’re interested in…
But these resources are only available to our members. Becoming a member is easy and FREE. Just click the membership block, provide your official K-16 education organization assigned email address and name and click subscribe.
Access to our robust listerv of over 3,700 IT and education technology professionals combined with our fresh Google+ Professional network gives the community a great platform for collaboration and resource sharing. Want to know what’s cooking in tech? The TechSETS Google+ stream curates the latest and more relevant information for IT professionals in K-16 education. Not on Google+? It’s easy. From our website, click the Professional network link,
Click the join Google+ to Add this page button, and sign up for a Google account.
If you’ve already got a Google account, just sign in and click the follow button and the TechSETS page will instantly be added to your Google+ Circles.
You can also join in on one of our monthly TechSETS Hangouts—small groups of our members get together each month to engage in informal, topic-specific discussions in an easy and relaxed setting.
Of course there are too many resources to go through in just one sitting. So get started! Explore the TechSETS site and log in to the premier education IT professionals’ network. TechSETS. People supporting technology in schools.