IEP4U.COM has over 4000 Goals and Objectives (IEP-ITP) each with changeable benchmarks. The Idea Statements are spread out over seven subjects (Domains) and four functional levels (Limited Version). Teachers, parents and students can now…
I agree with Joan. I want to be able to take full advantage of the benefits of technology. I often feel the primary classrooms may not be as involved, and I'd like to use the portal to show more than just grades. Some ideas may…
Gathering information and seeing examples and how it is used will help us to envision what it could look like in our district. I am glad to hear Northfield has varied it according to grade levels. Although I use the Realtime Gradebook, I…
When I first started teaching in the district I paid for a online grade book where I gave parents access to their child's grades. The stystem was very nice as it autumatically sent a parent an email when their child did not do well on an…
I know...LOVE this idea! I was going to inter-office it to you and then realized......you OBVIOUSLY received that info as well! Was the info on student grading/assessment useful?
I am excited to see how the Parent Portal in Northfield will be…
Concerns I have heard in the past from teachers in other districts using the parent portal revolved around getting started....teachers would've liked a way to guide parents to handling questions they may have, appropriately. I think in…
In the two other districts I worked in, both have grade-books open to students, but not school fusion. You were able to open an access your child's information only. I know at our team meeting, the team was concerned about what the parents…
Technology Committee Meeting 1/19/11After our last meeting I brought back to the administrative team your concerns about opening the parent portal. As a result, we decided to wait and launch the parent portal next year. We will use this year to gather information. As a Northfield parent, I just got a letter saying they are opening up their parent portal - I signed up (my daughter is in kindergarten). I will be interested to see what it looks like. They have School Fusion too. I would like…See More
Director of Curriculum Somers Point Schools
Technology & Professional Development Responsibilities
Lifelong learner - Ed.D. Student at Rowan
Mom, Runner, Reader
With your work in Technology, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.
So I just finished reviewing the Louvre web site! It is excellant! I think I may use it for 2 lessons! A cross curricular with 6th grade for Egypt and possible 5th or 7th for painting...still life and landscape!
At 12:49am on December 31, 2008, Andy Pethan said…
Hello,
I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering (near Boston). I am a part of a group of six Olin students who are taking a year off to pursue interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, which brought us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! Our company is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
"We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, teamwork, personalized learning, goal setting, reflection, effective feedback and evaluation, and the ability to work with groups across classes and schools to more effectively let students follow their interests and let teachers share their knowledge. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009."
Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com ending 11:59PM central time today. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs. We would love your support in the form of a vote, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving.
Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, or check out alightlearning.com if you're interested in learning more or getting involved when we begin piloting the software!
Thanks,
Andy Pethan
andrew.pethan@students.olin.edu
Thank you for Ottoman post. If not we can just continue to suggest other topics. I plan to fill out one of your on-demand forms to learn more about google docs.
At 10:15am on December 30, 2008, Mark Cruthers said…
Hi Jennifer,
With your work in Technology and Professional Development, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.