What's the Best way to introduce haiku LMS?

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Falcon on January 22, 2009 at 1:40pm

I will defer to some of the other members of the group on how they 'evangelized' to their fellow teachers. Kathi, Barb, Maddie or Rick, would you have some recommendations for Dan? Anyone else?

I will say, Dan, that we do have some 'Getting Started' documentation for teachers and students that we just developed, but I haven't posted to the Haiku website yet. If you are interested I can update it with information for your district and send it your way.

Let me know. :)

Permalink Reply by Dan Sitter on January 23, 2009 at 6:35am

that would be great Bryan, thanks. What would you need from me?

Permalink Reply by Bryan Falcon on January 23, 2009 at 10:47am

Nothing, actually. I'll send the documents to you later today. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Reynard on January 27, 2009 at 11:07am

Hi Dan,

I would be interested to know what's your colleagues reaction when you introduce haiku. Anything that we can improve or do better for first time users? I'm sure you are already in contact with Bryan about your district trial. Any suggestion to make that experience better is also welcome :)

Regards,
- reynard

Permalink Reply by Allen on February 9, 2009 at 1:01pm

Hi Dan. Would it help if I sent some information directly to someone in your school administration? I don't want to subvert your own efforts, but I do want your school administrators to know about our free, 60-day trial. We've offered this to other districts who appreciate the try-before-you-buy concept.

Permalink Reply by Dan Sitter on February 9, 2009 at 1:49pm

So far there has been a tepid response from my department and my webpage committee. I sent out the link to sign up for a free account and play around with the system, but so far only 4 other teachers I know have started creating a site. I think many of the teachers feel like a webpage is too demanding, etc...

Allen: My administration is not ready for any kind of info at this point. I've had some initial talks with our building principal, but he is an interim at this point and so we will have to wait until next school year at the earliest. For now, I'm just trying to proselytize as many converts as I can, that way when they need to make a decision, many teachers will have great experiences.

Lastly, Bryan: did you post the "getting started" info, I haven't found it.

Thanks all

Permalink Reply by Bruce Nelson on February 10, 2009 at 12:23pm

The issue tends to be that in most cases no one is really doing a website for their class or department- or they have always had someone else do it. Once you have some background in all that goes into creating and maintaining a site without something like Haiku, you just don't get how wonderful a tool Haiku is. I would find out who is dealing with your district site and show them, or find out who the other teachers are that have sites and introduce them how Haiku is a lot easier than anything that they could be using.

Permalink Reply by Vidya A on October 2, 2009 at 6:39am

Dan,

It's my experience that movement at any level begins at at the grassroots levels. So my suggestion would be to rope in your colleagues who are using it also to lend credence to your voice.

Positive feedback from students can also be a great motivator, after all, they are our raison d'etre so to speak. So I would also recommend getting feedback from students in classes using Haiku so the district can "see" that this really does benefit the end user.

Administration loves numbers ;), so including some statistics on ROI should also help. And last but not least, if feasible, perhaps some of the district members would be willing to sit in on classes using Haiku so they could see it action for themselves?

Just my $0.2 worth :-). Good luck!