Using the Web for Communications

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Using the Web for Communications

• A Guide for Administrators
• Presented by Karen Work RichardsonFebruary 11,
  2006

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Email

• Communicate appropriate information via email
• Links to resources
• Scheduling changes
• General announcements
• Dont
• Use email to avoid confrontation
• Use email for confidential communications
• Send email without a waiting period
• Publicize an email policy to parents

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Email Links Policy

• Bellefonte School Division Policy
  http//www.basd.net/technology/email_policy.htm
• Ethical Email http//www.cpsr.org/marsha-w/email
  pol.html
• Dedham Public Schools Policy www.dedham.k12.ma.u
  s/elementary/Emailpolicy.pdf

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Email Links Students

• Epals http//www.epals.com/
• Anne Arundel Countys Ideas for Using Email
  http//www.aacps.org/aacps/boe/INSTR/CURR/comed/Em
  ailProjects.htm
• Global School Network (http//www.gsn.org)
• Letters to Santa http//www.gsn.org/GSH/project/s
  anta/index.html
• Friendship Through Education http//www.friendshi
  pthrougheducation.org/

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School Websites

• Easy to find contact information on the homepage
  of division or school (address, phone number,
  general email, fax number)
• Keep an updated calendar (use an online resource
  like Teach-nology.com)
• Display student work and writing following
  division guidelines
• Post forms and other documents
• Make it part of your community

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Website Links Policy

• Leon County, FL http//www.leon.k12.fl.us/distric
  tserver/internet/websiteguidelines.htm
• Guidelines for School Websites
  http//www.kids.state.ct.us/guidelines.htm

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Teacher Websites

• Content Management Systems
• BlackBoard http//www.blackboard.com
• Moodle http//www.simplykaren.org/moodle
• Quia http//www.quia.com/pages/richardson.htm
• Schoolnotes http//schoolnotes.com/
• Blogs http//www.glnd.k12.va.us/schools/ghs/teach
  ers/cjackson/

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Other Online Tools for Teachers

• Puzzlemaker
• http//www.puzzlemaker.com
• DiscoverySchool
• http//school.discovery.com
• Rubric Makers
• http//www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
• http//rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
• PortaPortal
• http//www.portaportal.com
• http//guest.portaportal.com/?witchyrichy

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Student Communication

• Publishing
• Fanfiction http//www.fanfiction.net/
• Wikis http//www.wikipedia.org
• Blogs
• http//www.blogger.com
• http//weblogs.hcrhs.k12.nj.us/bees/

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Student Communication

• Telecollaboration Online Projects
• Virtual Architecture http//virtual-architecture.
  wm.edu/
• Global School Network http//www.gsn.org
• iEarn http//www.iearn.org/
• Examples
• Boiling Point http//k12science.stevens-tech.edu/
  curriculum/boilproj/
• Travel Buddies http//www.gsn.org/programs/travel
  buddies/index.html