| Denair (CA) Unified School District - Rural, 1580 Students (PDF) |  |
| All school sites in this district are at a single location, and they have run a fiber optic cable down the middle of the district, connecting all campuses to a gigabit local area network. The district utilizes systemwide e-mail, has telephones and intercoms installed in every classroom, and has a strong Web presence accessed by parents, with individual campuses and even individual teachers updating site pages. They are working towards having all staff acknowledge and use these communications systems that parents are expecting. |  |
| Helping Practicioners Meet The Goals Of No Child Left Behind (PDF) | |
| This resource is a compilation of white papers designed to provide school leaders and policymakers with information on ways e-learning can help schools meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act. | |
| Building Virtual Communities | |
| This article discusses online communities and factors that lead to success in online communities the most important of which is the role of the community organizer. Online communities is an innovative strategy for establishing cross-functional teams as members do not have to find a common meeting location or time. | |
| Cell Phones Test Schools' Outreach Efforts | |
| Seismic shift in mobile phone use calls for new communication strategies | |
| Social Technology As A New Medium In The Classroom | |
| At the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where I teach, students spend a lot of time on Facebook and other social networking sites. | |
| Evaluating Crisis-Alert Systems | |
| In the age of e-mail and text messaging, instantly alerting parents and staff members about emergency situations on campus has become increasingly common, and new technologies have allowed districts to choose crisis-alert systems that are tailor-made for their needs. | |
| Districts Weigh Benefits And Drawbacks Of Setting Up Student E-Mail Accounts | |
| Districts hope the plan will improve communication and student engagement in learning, but many educators are wary. | |
| Telling The Technology Story: PR Strategies For School Leaders (PDF) | |
| Public relations is a critical component of a district's successful technology implementation -- and it involves communicating on an ongoing basis with the range of stakeholders inside and outside the district. | |
| Bouncing Back: Emergency Planning For IT, Data and Communication Needs (PDF) | |
| The best planning cannot prevent all natural or man-made disasters. But it can help your district respond promptly and effectively when threats become a reality. | |
| Information Technology's Impact On School–Parents And Parents–Student Interrelations: A Case Study | |
| This paper explores the impact of a school management information system on the interrelations between parents and school and parents and their student children in terms of the children's learning, behavior and attendance (LBA), during one academic year, in a vocational high school, located in a mainstream socio-economic neighborhood. Parents' LBA interrelations with the principal, homeroom teachers, grade level coordinators, and the school as an institution as well as with their children changed noticeably. The involvement of parents in general, but of parents with children having LBA problems in particular, in school LBA issues became more intensive, more frequent and more focused. The paper's results add the information technology dimension to parents involvement in school research, a dimension neglected so far. Implications for the principal's work are discussed. | |
| Hands-On Favorites | |
| This article highlights administrators and technologists who have recently purchased notification systems. They describe how they use the system, what they like about it, and what they wish that the system did for them. | |
| The Plugged-in School: Districts Harness Technology To Attract And Retain New Teachers | |
| While schools districts may be slow to jump on board, universities, regional education service agencies, and non-profit organizations are harnessing some of the new technologies as a way to both appeal to incoming teachers and to support them during their challenging first years in the profession. | |
| Schools Mull Needs Of Adult Distance Learners | |
| Many ed-tech advocates have voiced support for distance learning as a way for K-12 students to take courses not offered at their regular schools or enroll in courses for college credit. But another group of learners--adults who turn to distance learning to return or expand their schooling--is attracting more and more national attention. | |
| How To Spark Remote Learning | |
| Second Life, the online world that brings players together from across the globe to socialize, shop and even fly, is developing a second career as a hot spot for learning English as a second language (ESL). | |
| Creating School Web Pages | |
| This resource helps users explore school websites, plan their own website, and then work to implement this plan. | |
| A Complete Guide To Designing Web Sites That Work | |
| This is a website that is for everyone involved or interested in creating web sites - whether novice or expert. It will help a user understand what makes web sites succeed or fail, and what can be done to increase the chance of success. | |
| Designing School Websites To Deliver | |
| This site brings together information on design issues for school websites, resources for creating and maintaining sites, background information, legal information, and examples. | |
| Web Designers Handbook | |
| The Web Design handbook is a place where users can find a range of useful techniques and code segments. | |
| Retool Your School Website To Appeal To Many Audiences | |
| This article contains an interview with a web manager, and it discusses how he retooled and redeployed his education service agency's website. The interview discusses the importance of making a schools' website up-to-date and user friendly, how he got employees involved in the redesign and upkeep of the site, and how he uses the staff to maintain quality control. | |
| Creating A Well-Defined District Web Site: A Checklist For Administrators | |
| Web pages are encouraged by many school districts, in order for teachers and other school personnel to improve communication and support the goals of the school. The following tips are offered to help design a functional, consistent, and well-designed Web presence for school districts. | |