Other+Districts

=A Review of What's Out There-=


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The [|Northfield Community School District] site is a content management system designed by [|SchoolFusion]. It has many things to recommend it and spurred lots of good conversation about navigation, district or school placement, ease of use for teachers, and benefit to students and parents. Although blogs, wikis, and other collaborative spaces are not so visible, they could be "private" and password protected or maybe they haven't been integrated yet. The most outstanding feature is a customized portal for each student and his/her parents. Classroom assignments are automatically updated into a personalized calendar which also displays sports, clubs, and other individual schedules. The district's mail and grading systems are also integrated and available to families online.

In terms of design: Well thought out links Very clean yet doesn't look like a canned template A lot of the content is up front on the district level Very easy to navigate Offers parents consistency as they move up to the middle school Middle School Teacher Templates w/ class calendar Elementary School Templates - eboards

Integrated Functionality: The CMS generates a personal space for each student, and parent e-mails. Individual homework, club meetings, athletic schedules, grades, etc. are posted into personal online calendars. Group work spaces (are present ... or need to be) Posting data online for parents Collecting data from parents online instead of sending home so much paper

Drawback Doesn't seem like students, teachers, or groups can open up a web template and create a site on the fly, without going through a webmaster. Check out the West Point link below. Possibilities: Wikispaces is offering [|private label wikispaces] for k12 districts, as does [|WordPress] for blogging, FirstClass

Lorraine looked at [|Ramsey]. Their site was designed by [|School Wires]. Other examples of their work include [|Manville Schools] [|Whittier Union High School District] and [|Quakertown Community School District] [|ZUMU Websites] _

[|Mabry School] - all pages in the site are blogs

[|Charlotte County Public Schools] - using FirstClass

Sample District Site [|Freehold Regional High School] [|Newberg Public Schools] - Drupal site

West Point pages for alumnae http://www.west-point.org/society/joomla_basic/ [|Class of 57] [|Basic Class site]